Movies

The self-taught nature filmmaker Ingeborg Tölke uses quotes from literary encounters with the flora and fauna of the moor in a gentle approach...

A very little man attacks two huge feet and fights with all his power against them until his downfall. While dying, he is still convinced that he is...

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This...

Four generations of one familiy live in the heart of the Spreewald, close to the coalmines and power stations. From their elders, the children have...

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...

When Michael was released from the Jugendwerkhof at the age of 16, he said: "... There has to be controversy to make progress, to achieve something...

Shortly after the construction of the wall in August 1961, many guests visit the East German army troops who protect the wall.

Martin Brandt (1903-1989), an unforgettable Jewish actor and former member of the Jewish Kulturbund Theater in Berlin, recites from Macbeth and...

The animated film, created as a puppet and clay animation with a drawn and painted backdrop, shows a day in the life of a painter. He drives to the...

Sportivnyy prazdnik molodyozhi (Youth Sports Festival) (1951) is an East German sports documentary co-directed by Andrew Thorndike and Dmitri...

The first puppet animation film in the GDR shows the fairy tale about the quarrels of an unequal pair of animals, which is well-known in both German...

The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim to power and its aesthetic effect. The basis for...

A portrait of Helga Hörz, professor of ethics and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

On the occasion of the GDR Landeskulturgesetz (Law on the Conservation and Protection of the Environment), passed in 1970, the speaker explains the...

Anton, a touring musician, arrives in a foreign country with his tuba. The people there enjoy the music and decide to build their own instruments....

Based on the life experiences of photographer Horst Sturm, the story of Kollwitzplatz in Berlin is retold.

A mother hedgehog lives in the forest with her seven sons. Two of them fall down a slope; one is eaten by an owl, the other is found after...

At night in a kindergarten, all the toys sleep except the bunny on watch. A raging storm bursts the window open, and rain threatens a little teddy...