Movies

In 1709, Johann Friedrich Böttger invented Meissen porcelain while searching for a recipe for making gold. The group "Stern Combo Meißen"...

A portrait of the Islamic Museum in Berlin, now the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum. One of its most famous exhibits is the Jordanian...

A biographical documentary about Ernst Thälmann.

This black-and-white documentary reports on a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in East Berlin from March 24 to 29,...

Thumbelina is born in a calyx. A bumblebee opens the flower and the little one goes on a journey of discovery. She has to hide from a nubile frog in...

The little African girl Asina is eagerly waiting for her new friend Karli. Karli is a young sailor from Rostock who has promised her a gift on his...

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

Three international students write letters home about their time in East Germany. Antonio Dega, a Cuban studying shipbuilding, writes home about the...

This portrait shows Black cartoonist Oliver Harrington from New York, who fled to the GDR. For his political drawings, he drew on worldly anecdotes...

When a motorcyclist dies in an accident, lieutenant Kreutzer and his colleague Arnold receive the order to investigate the backgrounds of this...

Gathering in Thüringen for their annual rehearsal camp, music students from Frankfurt (Oder) and Zielona Gora celebrate the German-Polish...

This film musical is a romantic comedy of mistaken identities set at the 10th World Festival in Berlin. Alexej from Moscow meets and is attracted to...

An adaptation based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

The film by Uwe Belz shows Krug in his major roles in films, as a performer as a jazz singer, and as a private person.

East Berlin disco movie.

Aschenbrödel (Cinderella), the fairy tale, is a fantastic mixture of the miraculous and the everyday, based on the well-known folk tale by the...

Three gangsters overpower a night watchman and try to break into a safe. Opening the door triggers an alarm and they flee through the window without...

The Grand Fleet Parade on the Baltic Sea on November 4, 1960 to mark the renaming of the GDR's naval forces to the "Volksmarine". The renaming...

Chicken Gock and the mice Singeschön and Springeschön want to celebrate a sports festival. It is to begin with a big race. At the starting...