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A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Goodman

Lothar König is an original. The long-term youth pastor from Jena doesn’t fit into any system. In the GDR he was under state surveillance,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lothar König

Philipp Melanchthon decisively shaped the history of the Reformation in Germany and renewed German education. In the shadow of his fatherly friend...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Detlef Gieß

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Gorbachev

Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bibiana Beglau

In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cătălin Tolontan

It's a hot, dry summer in Klein-Schappleben. Micha, a pretentious video game designer, wants to turn his late parents' dilapidated guesthouse into a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charly Hübner

In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in third place in the world's export ranking and in...

Genre: Documentary

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The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Merlin Rose

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Vogt

15-year-old Elise is longing for a happy family life, but her mother Betty is weak and egocentric. She drowns her problems in alcohol. Everything...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jasna Fritzi Bauer

The tenth edition of Polish Pride parades a colorful trail of rainbow flags through the streets of Warsaw. Along the route, Antek and his friends...

Genre: Documentary

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THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protégé, Scott, along the proposed route of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George M. Koumal

A temporary house for abandoned children near the front line in eastern Ukraine is run by a small group of social workers determined to provide...

Genre: Documentary

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The actors Martin and Maria have not been a couple for a long time, but they didn't get very far without each other. While he spends his time with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alexander Beyer

In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Kissinger

The discovery of a magic mirror allows Fred to realize his dream: his twin tidies up his room, eats without complaining and becomes first in class....

Genre: Family

Cast: Butz Ulrich Buse

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Kurth

A critical and objective look back at Ukraine's tumultuous and tragic history, from its mythical founding in the 10th century to the Russian invasion...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Melanie Pukaß

It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlene Burow