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Mazurka der Liebe
Mazurka der Liebe
Early 18th-century Krakow: The poor student Simon works as a travelling musician in order to finance his studies, and the Polish freedom fighter Jan is on the run from Saxon troops. ...
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Tinko
Tinko
After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work on his own, flatly refusing to join any collective farming activities. He ...
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The Magic Scissors
The Magic Scissors
Two hands prepare a paper cutting... They create a tailor made from black cardboard and let him go into a paper world. He comes alive and together with the scissors, which created him, ...
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Rivals Behind the Wheel
Rivals Behind the Wheel
Manfred Falk is an experienced race car driver and member of a racing collective in Eisenach. While competing in West Germany, the beautiful Manuela convinces him to leave his ...
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Sheriff Teddy
Sheriff Teddy
A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.
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Wo Du hin gehst…
Wo Du hin gehst…
Berlin, 1936. Athletes and visitors from all over the world have come to the city to take part in the Olympic Games. Anti-Fascists use the opportunity to tell the foreign guests about ...
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Das Stacheltier: Fridericus Rex – Part Eleven
Das Stacheltier: Fridericus Rex – Part Eleven
Two UFA employees travel by car from West Berlin to Potsdam's Sanssouci Palace together with Ministerial Director Schimmelpfennig to persuade Frederick II, who haunts the palace, to ...
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Lissy
Lissy
Berlin, early 1930s. Lissy, a young woman raised in a socialist working-class family, marries a clerk who promises her a better life. During the depression, however, he gets fired and ...
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Die Schönste
Die Schönste
13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman. They get to know each because Hannes ...
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Two Mothers
Two Mothers
The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.
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Duped Till Doomsday
Duped Till Doomsday
East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably ...
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Castles and Cottages
Castles and Cottages
Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the count gets divided amongst the ...
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Polonia-Express
Polonia-Express
Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the East to secretly transport weapons for ...
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Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser…
Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser…
The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in love with Angela. She, in turn, spends ...
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Don’t Forget My Little Traudel
Don’t Forget My Little Traudel
17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.
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Gejagt bis zum Morgen
Gejagt bis zum Morgen
Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.