Movies

A wrestler finds his political interest and activism through sport. However, this is extremely dangerous during the Nazi era and the workers' sports...

17-year-old Susanne is a gymnast and has a chance to join the national team. But now, of all times, she is having problems in training. She can't...

The GDR has concluded an important agreement with a friendly country in the Middle East, in which it undertakes to supply and install pumping...

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

A beautiful seagull is injured during a storm, ends up in a forest and joins a family of woodpeckers. She is rejected by the older members, but the...

A hard-hearted nobleman chases away all of his aged servants. Only one thresher manages to stay in service. However, he cannot do the required work...

A guide to vegetable self-sufficiency in postwar Germany.

The film reports on the massive forest damage in the Ore Mountains on the Czech-German border and the desperate struggle of foresters and residents...

A cinematic visit to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The camera usually observes the visitors and paints their views on scenes of the ensemble of...

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin in 1950.

Erich Kubak is an excavator operator at the lignite plant. A technical weakness in the excavator, which repeatedly leads to production downtime, is...

A graphic fairy tale movie about the adventures of four friends - a donkey, a dog, a rooster and a cat - who deal with an evil master and robbers.

Chicken Gock and the clever mice want to make music, but they get into an argument over a note.

During the Napoleonic Wars, German writer Ferdinand von Rauch, who had enthusiastically joined the French revolutionary troops years earlier, is sent...

A short social reportage with a working-class aesthetic and Brechtian alienation effect, aimed at a politically educated German audience.

On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was established in the 1950s with the active support of...

The film reports on the return of Soviet units from Czechoslovakia (CSSR) to their stationing areas in the GDR. It depicts the reception by the...

Fred works as an engineer and a test driver at a car company. His girlfriend Petra is a car mechanic - actually an ideal combination. However, the...