Movies

The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.

Duke Heinrich von Libnitz wins a knightly drink competition in 1472. However, the last barrel he drinks costs him his entire estate. So he has to...

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and...

The film tells the well-known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, in which the little girl Little Red Riding Hood is led astray by the wolf, devoured...

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

GDR documentary reflecting Vietnamese women's lives in wartime. It focuses on fishing co­operatives, an artillery unit, teachers, children, and a...

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

After the King tramples Nick's sunflower crop during a royal rabbit hunt, the young farmer sets out to demand compensation. Ignored, Nick soon...

In works like “Guide Dog Ruepel” (1962), Bärbl Bergmann was the first feature film director in the GDR to portray children in their...

Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...

Film report about the meeting of the youth organization of the GDR (FDJ = Freie Deutsche Jugend) with guests from 57 countries as well as the 8th...

Young people talk to the camera about their ideas of marriage and plans for their future lives.

The film depicts the everyday lives of children in Nicaragua in three episodes.

Short film intended for the mobilization of NVA units to secure the state border in Berlin on 13 August 1961.

A mother hedgehog lives in the forest with her seven sons. Two of them fall down a slope; one is eaten by an owl, the other is found after...

Eighteen-year-old Wolfgang has just passed his A-levels and still has a few months to go before he has to start his military service. Instead of...

The first puppet animation film in the GDR shows the fairy tale about the quarrels of an unequal pair of animals, which is well-known in both German...

A little boy is supposed to take the trash can and the ashes to the basement. His friends are already waiting for him. They are already standing on...