East Germany

Potter’s Bull is the first part of the “Over-Paintings” Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen ...

Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt – as she has for ...

This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their ...

The authorities expect the case of Friedel Walter, alias “Dr. Mueller,” to be a straightforward one: he was working as a doctor ...

This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the “stars” of a Berlin light bulb factory. What is ...

Sculptor Makolies is filmed working on a sculpture in the middle of a quarry in Swiss Saxony. The quarry workers go about their work around him. ...

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate “Lütten Klein” in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the ...

In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his ...

In this film about apprentices of the Rewatex laundry, Böttcher once again turns to the focal concern of almost all his films the attempt to ...

Böttcher made his graduation film NOTWENDIGE LEHRJAHRE (1960) about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. ...

Documentary on the 1000-year-old town of Weimar. The film presents an example of the victory of humanist traditions over nazi brutality. Release: ...

Mama, I’m Alive (German: Mama, ich lebe) is a 1977 East German film directed by Konrad Wolf. It was chosen as East Germany’s official ...

Three people from very different walks of life meet at a large construction site. Young, unmarried, self-confident construction manager Linda ...

Based on testimony from the Nuremberg Trials, this East German drama explores the collusion between international corporations and Nazi ...

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union’s war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of ...

Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives ...

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries ...

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

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to ...

World War II has long provided fodder for European filmmakers and East German director Konrad Wolf is no exception. In this uneven though at ...