Movies

Although mocked by his collegaues, the dean of Salamanca sets off to find the legendary bird Turlipan.

Der Fall Harzmann und andere (The Harzmann Case and Others) (1957) is a 31-minute East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike....

Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.

Scharnhorst, who said that the army should march at the forefront of progress, is one of the NVA's role models. The film uses historical material to...

Two men and two women in a hotel.

Princess Josephine certainly has her moods and idiosyncrasies. Her father, King Eduard, misunderstands her one day and believes he has to look for a...

Holidays in colony (in Thuringia and on the Baltic) of the children of workers of a chemical industry in the DDR.

From Martin Anderson Nexo's novel comes this loved story of a Swedish boy and his elderly father trying to make a better life for themselves in...

Two best teenage friends spend the summer holidays together in a village. Then a good looking teenage boy appears.

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...

A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler catches on fire. The farmer himself is soon...

Images of women in Art Nouveau and other art movements at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with...

A guide to vegetable self-sufficiency in postwar Germany.

A report on the oldest citizen of the GDR at the time, Emma Wagner from Gotha.

Trini avenges the torture of his uncle by a landowner’s son. Trini and his fellow peons destroy the landowner’s home and overpower his...

Karlemann is very often found in his own 'Robinson world', a secluded place on earth. There he travels the river in his special all-weather boat, and...

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...

The 17-year-old commercial student Doris, a young, blameless girl, lives with her relatives without parents. It is the nerve-wracking circumstances...