Der Untertan (1951) Duration: 1H49M Description: Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at t….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1951 […]
Das Feuerzeug (1959) Duration: 1H23M Description: There lived a soldier. He served the king and is now returning home. Once he met an old witch on the way, who promised him mountains of money in exchange for the fact that he would get her an old tinderbox… Trailer ↗ East Germany 1959 Drama Fantasy
Der Spiegel des großen Magus (1981) Duration: 1H18M Description: .. Trailer ↗ Czechoslovakia East Germany 1981 Adventure Family Fantasy
Der Rat der Götter (1950) Duration: 1H50M Description: Based on the 1947 book “I.G. Farben”, by American author Richard Sasuly, and records from the Nuremberg Trial of the chemical giant I.G. Farben, Council of the Gods is a story about the collaboration between international corporat….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1950 History
Figaros Hochzeit (1949) Duration: 1H47M Description: Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This enchanting film, the very first opera production of DEFA, stands out because of its lavis….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1949 Musical Romance
Stein (1991) Duration: 1H48M Description: A German stage actor’s cult following and popularity after protesting the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1991 Drama
Biologie! (1990) Duration: 1H31M Description: Ulla is a sensitive and principled 10th-grader in a small East German town. When Winfried falls in love with her, he adopts her passion for protecting the environment. Ulla tries to stop illegal trout farm and gets her classmates ….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1990 Drama Family Romance
Als Unku Edes Freundin war (1981) Duration: 1H13M Description: A boy and a gypsy girl become friends and face prejudice in Berlin in the twenties… Trailer ↗ East Germany 1981 Drama Family
Die goldene Gans (1964) Duration: 1H7M Description: In one fairy-tale kingdom, the princess stopped laughing. No one knows the cause of this sudden illness. The worried king promises half the kingdom and a daughter in marriage to the one who will make the princess at least smile… Trailer ↗ East Germany 1964 Family Fantasy
Polonia restituta (1981) Duration: 3H39M Description: A historical reconstruction of dramatic events leading to creation of Polish state. Covers the First World War and the postwar period up to the Treaty of Versailles… Trailer ↗ Poland Hungary East Germany Czechoslovakia Soviet Union 1981 Drama History War
Jan auf der Zille (1986) Duration: 1H26M Description: 1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to be shot by the police when he was on the run. Jan lives with his aunt and finds a….. […]
Alle meine Mädchen (1980) Duration: 1H26M Description: Film student Ralf is assigned to make a documentary on a team of six women at a Berlin light bulb factory. He soon finds himself pulled into the conflicts and hopes and emotions of the workers as work and life converge… Trailer ↗ East Germany 1980 Drama
Das Luftschiff (1983) Duration: 1H57M Description: Stannebein is “an inventor of air ships for the benefit of mankind,” or so he sees himself and his place in world history. In order to secure financing for his fancy, he adopts to the rhetoric of the time and, unwittingly, ends up….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1983 Drama
Frau Holle (1963) Duration: 59M Description: Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters: one was her own, the other was a stepdaughter. The eldest relative was ugly and lazy, and the youngest was beautiful and hardworking… Trailer ↗ East Germany 1963 Family Fantasy
Sieben Sommersprossen (1978) Duration: 1H19M Description: A well-made, enjoyable, East German coming-of-age film. Cunningly weaving Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ into its plot. All set in a summer vacation camp… Trailer ↗ East Germany 1978 Comedy Drama Romance
Capcana mercenarilor (1981) Duration: 1H51M Description: In 1918 a defeated Austro-Hungarian Baron Colonel Von Görtz returns home to Transylvania which has just been lost to Romania. A vengeful Von Görtz punishes the nearby villagers but Romanian Major Tudor Andrei aids them… Trailer ↗ Romania East Germany 1981 Adventure Drama War
Das singende, klingende Bäumchen (1957) Duration: 1H14M Description: A brave prince wants to win the heart of a stubborn princess by finding the singing, ringing tree for her… Trailer ↗ East Germany 1957 Adventure Family Fantasy
Les sorcières de Salem (1957) Duration: 2H25M Description: Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John’s wife of being a witch in revenge. It will be the beginning of a series of witchcraft trials and a dark moment in American history… Trailer ↗ France East Germany 1957 Drama History
Sterne (1959) Duration: 1H31M Description: The tragic love of a Jewish girl and a Nazi officer is presented as a symbol of human purity defeated by fascism and racial prejudice… Trailer ↗ East Germany Bulgaria 1959 War Drama
Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn… (1987) Duration: 1H39M Description: Follows the 15-year-old, Heinz Stilke, a member of the Hitler Youth. Heinz is proud of his father, who died bravely for his fatherland, but suddenly learns that he himself is half Jewish. Heinz leaves his gymnasium and is forced t….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1987 War