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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: André Hennicke

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

Genre: Documentary

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Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ritchie Barton

Documentary film

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hans-Peter Minetti

Homelessness in New York. Interviews with those affected. An architect from San Francisco comes up with the idea of building the so-called "City...

Genre: Documentary

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Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Siegfried Müller

Potter's Bull is the first part of the "Over-Paintings" Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Paulus...

Genre: Documentary

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In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gerhard Scheumann

Citations from love letters and poems written between Karl Marx and his fiancée Jenny von Westphalen during their teenage years are combined...

Genre: Documentary

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Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

Genre: Documentary

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An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yves Montand

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Winfried Junge

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

Genre: Documentary

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A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helke Misselwitz

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helke Misselwitz

Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Elsa Grube-Deister

Documentary film

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gerhard Scheumann

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gisela May

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norbert Christian

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to West Germany and came back. This film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gerhard Scheumann