Movies

An album of moving illustrations showing the history of communism, from the rise of the first trade unions in the 1820s to the present day...

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

Hamburg, Germany 1934: An executioner is needed. Teetjen makes the biggest mistake of his life. Because his butcher shop is facing bankruptcy, he...

Against the backdrop of late 19th-century Berlin, Toyotaro Ota, a young Japanese uni student studying in Germany, meets and falls in love with...

A story about Ulrike, a ten year old girl who is looking for a new father with energy and determination.

Mrs. Alving has hidden her unhappy marriage to a morally depraved man from the world for years. To remove all doubt, she founds an orphanage in her...

Till Eulenspiegel works as a journeyman for a baker in Braunschweig who is not very kind to his staff or his customers. Now the master gets his...

One morning, the little mouse crawls out of its hole and decides to have a look around. He hops over hill and dale, marvels at grasses and flowers,...

The film creates a vision of the destruction of the world and warns against its realization.

The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade...

Thomas Heise documents the everyday life of the "People's Police Force" in Berlin Mitte.

Images of women in Art Nouveau and other art movements at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with...

In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".

This documentary reports on the well-known winter sports resort of Oberhof in Thuringia and the "2nd Winter Sports Championships of the GDR" with...

A film using the famous stop-motion technique well known from the Sandmännchen. It's based on a Sorbic tale of young Hanka who lives in a...

Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arrested and accused of approving a defective...

A documentary highlighting several noteworthy locations along the railway line between Brest and Moscow.