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Lighters Trailer (1985)
11 October 1985
Rolf Jarschel’s passion are lighters of every kind. He owns the largest collection in Europe with over 3,000 items.
Schuldner Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
A short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears.
The Comical Game Trailer (1984)
06 July 1984
A card game is introduced: “Nuclear War". An entertaining, jolly card game for between two and six players, reads an ad for a game made in USA.
Dearest Dziodzio Trailer (1981)
31 July 1981
"Dearest Dziodzio" was filmed using quotes from letters Rosa Luxemburg wrote to her lover, the revolutionary labor leader Leo Jogiches, during her stays in Poland, Germany, France and Switzerland in the years 1893-1905.
Feier ohne Feuer Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
East German short film directed by Andrea Ritterbusch
Sommer, Sonne, AK 8 Trailer (1956)
19 November 1956
This documentary, intended to inspire new home filmmakers, tells the stories of ordinary people who learned how to make their own films by renting inexpensive AK 8 cameras.
Der springende Punkt Trailer (1987)
17 July 1987
Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of modern nuclear missiles.
Einberufen Trailer (1972)
10 February 1972
Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.
35 Photos Trailer (1985)
28 June 1985
A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year.
Ruppiner Schweiz - Am Ende eines Sommers Trailer (1989)
04 August 1989
North of Neuruppin lies the Ruppiner Schweiz, the smallest “Swiss” area on German soil. Fontane loved the seclusion and enigmatic appeal of this region’s landscape.
Jugend-Zeit zu zweit Trailer (1981)
04 September 1981
Young people talk to the camera about their ideas of marriage and plans for their future lives.
Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze Trailer (1984)
20 April 1984
Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany".
Life in Wittstock Trailer (1984)
26 November 1984
Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin.
Who Loves the Earth Trailer (1974)
11 January 1974
A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.
A Diary for Anne Frank Trailer (1959)
13 March 1959
A documentary recounting Anne Frank’s story and death at Bergen-Belsen before turning to a detailed examination of the camp itself—the routines of its officers, the atrocities committed there, and the troubling postwar reality that many perpetrators lived freely with state support in Germany.
The Case of H. and Eight Others Trailer (1973)
02 February 1973
Documentary about juvenile delinquency in East Germany.
Auf der Oder Trailer (1970)
16 April 1970
Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland.
From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich Trailer (1988)
29 November 1988
This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions of working people in opposing social orders.
What We Remember Trailer (1984)
14 September 1984
Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth.
City-Sleeper Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
Homelessness in New York. Interviews with those affected. An architect from San Francisco comes up with the idea of building the so-called "City Sleeper" - a housing container.
Wir bleiben hier Trailer (1990)
01 December 1990
Observations in a Vietnamese family after the Berlin Wall fell. Which problems and expectations resulted in their changed daily life? - They, who were once a sought-after work force in this country.
The Wind Rose Trailer (1957)
08 March 1957
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
Feuerland Trailer (1988)
15 January 1988
Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.
In Syrien auf Montage Trailer (1971)
01 October 1971
The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria.
Ewa - Ein Mädchen aus Witunia Trailer (1973)
30 March 1973
This black and white documentary follows Ewa from Witunia and other girls from Poland, who work at Kabelwerk Oberspreee in Berlin since about a year.
Paradies der Tiere Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was established in the 1950s with the active support of the local population.
Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung Trailer (1990)
07 October 1990
Multilayered documentary about the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR: Half a hundred buildings, a thousand rooms, bunkers, its own prisons - the Berlin central complex of the former Ministry of State Security.
Postcards I; Potter's Bull Trailer (1981)
07 November 1981
Potter's Bull is the first part of the "Over-Paintings" Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher).
In Georgia Trailer (1988)
04 March 1988
Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar scenes to those found in the work of Georgian painter Niko Pirosmanishvili still existed there.
Three of Many Trailer (1961)
01 December 1961
Böttchers film showcases three young workers who learn how to paint, draw, and make sculptures out of stone.
Martin Luther Trailer (1981)
01 December 1981
Using some unique documents and pictures, this colour film shows the life and work of Martin Luther in the context of his own time and his relevance to our time.
After Winter Comes Spring Trailer (1989)
03 February 1989
A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution.
Berlin – Bauplatz der Jugend Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.
Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand Trailer (1990)
10 October 1990
Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification.
Wenn man vierzehn ist Trailer (1970)
06 March 1970
They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration.
An der Unstrut Trailer (1986)
30 May 1986
A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality.
The Ascending Path Trailer (1950)
05 October 1950
The economic and cultural improvements of the Soviet Occupied Sector are documented with scenes from the years 1945 to 1950.
The Tailor of Ulm Trailer (1980)
07 March 1980
Dammbeck made this film – a reference to the myth of Icarus and a metaphor for failure, hope, and human exploration – at the invitation of the legendary animator Kurt Weiler.
The Secretary Trailer (1967)
01 June 1967
Presentation of a commited State Party secretary at the Chemicals Combine in Buna. A former miner and small farmer rises to a leading political position.
1000 Years Weimar Trailer (1977)
29 September 1977
Documentary on the 1000-year-old town of Weimar. The film presents an example of the victory of humanist traditions over nazi brutality.
Vacation in Sylt Trailer (1957)
01 September 1957
The East German documentary uncovers the postwar career of Heinz Reinefarth, the former SS general responsible for atrocities during the Warsaw Uprising who became mayor of Westerland on the island of Sylt.
Liebeserklärung an Berlin Trailer (1977)
07 October 1977
A stroll through East Berlin in 1977 - unique original recordings of the GDR capital by day and night, summer and winter, accompanied by music, offer a comprehensive insight into the diversity of urban life at that time.
Jugend-Zeit ...in der Stadt Trailer (1979)
23 November 1979
Young people discuss life problems such as moving into their first apartment, but also how to shape their own future.
Memento Trailer (1966)
16 February 1966
A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger.
Song of the Rivers Trailer (1954)
17 September 1954
An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run through their respective lands.
Once I Was a Child Trailer (1987)
20 March 1987
The interviews conducted by Tamara Trampe in a Pankow kindergarten testify to a rare attempt to enter the world of the young interviewees completely, to give their stories a space where reality and fantasy, worries and wishes can mix freely.
Radnóti Trailer (1985)
19 July 1985
Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).
Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg Trailer (1991)
19 February 1991
The Prenzlauer Berg district in the former East Berlin was a particularly intense example of the "short summer of anarchy" on the heels of the fall of the Wall.
Wechseljahre Trailer (1985)
03 January 1985
The film uses documentary-style scenes, interviews and animated schematic drawings to expose the problems of the menopause as a natural stage of a woman's life, which is predominantly experienced without symptoms, and names individual problems about which Dr.
Operation Teutonic Sword Trailer (1958)
06 June 1958
An East German documentary by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike investigating NATO General Hans Speidel’s alleged role in the 1934 assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander I and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou.
Immer bereit Trailer (1950)
20 July 1950
Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin in 1950.
Bulky Trash Trailer (1991)
19 February 1991
In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items.
Tango Trailer (1985)
09 August 1985
A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe.
Tag für Tag Trailer (1979)
25 November 1979
36 year old welder Karin works at an agricultural factory in Mecklenburg, Germany.
Stars Trailer (1963)
23 November 1963
This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the "stars" of a Berlin light bulb factory.
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten Trailer (1952)
02 January 1952
Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working class, and from enemy of national-socialism to the first president of the German Democratic Republic.
Ludwig van Beethoven Trailer (1954)
02 July 1954
Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.