Movies

Puppet animated film based on a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

An ancient fairy tale tells that Athanga created the world with animals and humans. Since the creatures soon began to quarrel with each other, he...

In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists?...

The 18-year-old Katharina Jens is a high diving champion and succeeds in everything she does. When she enters an international contest in place of...

Böttcher made his graduation film about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. Already here a striking...

Martin′s and his girlfriend′s Kathrin′s childhood comes to an abrupt end in 1920, when their Mecklenburg village is drawn into the...

After a long period as a prisoner of war, Joachim Ott returns home to find that his wife is now living with another man.

A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their...

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

The motto for the 13-year-old narrator Bärbel Fielow, as far as school is concerned, must always be the opinion in class.

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during...

In each of the valleys stretching to the sides of the river, a goat lives. Both animals consider themselves unsurpassable. One day the goats, finely...

A worker in his forties picks up a student on the highway in his car and is thus torn from his previous life. He learns to respect the attitudes and...

A film using the famous stop-motion technique well known from the Sandmännchen. It's based on a Sorbic tale of young Hanka who lives in a...

This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno...

Detlev, a single insurance clerk in his 30s, is kept dependent by his loving and caring mother and loses his girlfriend Karin as a result. Grief and...

The land in poor Hassan's Central Asian homeland is stony and lacks water. Every day, he gazes longingly at the well in the garden of the rich...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

Three couples want to spend a short break together. Some have a traffic accident, the others are prevented professionally. So the designer Robert and...