Movies

Children's film with animation and live action elements about how the lock in the Spree River works.

This short animation film, which is part of the series Musikalische Arabesken (Musical Arabesks), is a colorful and expressionistic interpretation of...

Duke Heinrich von Libnitz wins a knightly drink competition in 1472. However, the last barrel he drinks costs him his entire estate. So he has to...

Short film about the importance of sport in the GDR

Documentary about the socialist politician and writer August Bebel

A writer researching an international partisan group during World War II meets with a contemporary witness. Together, they visit the sites of the...

East German short documentary

TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his...

The girl Sarina lives in Tajikistan with her father. When her father becomes seriously ill, Sarina sets off on a dangerous journey to get herbs for...

Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck

In the small town of Benderath, Jewish high school student Jakob is the victim of hostility because of his religion. He forms the student group...

In a village, there is reason to gossip and mock. As a kind of reward, the workaholic tractor driver Andreas is sent on vacation for a few days...

A group of drummers from various backgrounds gather together for a special performance.

In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered...

A grandfather builds a giant kite with his grandson, but first time they try to fly it, they are pulled up into the sky! Grandma is worried that the...

Two adolescents, Sauly and Mick, get to know each other while hitchhiking and stick together for the long haul. They both want to reach the ocean,...

Images of women in Art Nouveau and other art movements at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

GDR documentary reflecting Vietnamese women's lives in wartime. It focuses on fishing co­operatives, an artillery unit, teachers, children, and a...