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Günter Reisch (1927–2014) was one of DEFA’s most important and productive directors and screenwriters. After his graduation, he first worked together with Gerhard Lamprecht and Kurt Maetzig, then directed twenty feature films himself and lectured at the Babelsberg Film Academy, among other institutions. Reisch was a member of the Academy of Arts and the German Film Academy.
Total trailers found: 22
05 September 1980
The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancée enables her to survive the tribulations of her time in prison, where she is one of few political prisoners.
24 September 1976
A commercial artist with a lisp chooses silence, unexpectedly propelling his career. His perceived innovation leads to rapid advancement in an ad agency.
13 February 2007
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.
20 August 1951
Film about the third 'Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten für den Frieden' in East Berlin, 1951.
04 December 1959
It is the 65th birthday of Wilhelm Lehmann, foreman of a chemical company. All members of the large family are expected.
09 September 1965
This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war.
22 January 1987
Grandpa Lörke is preparing for a contemplative, quiet Christmas Eve. But nothing comes of it, because his daughter Anne informs him that his 17-year-old granddaughter has disappeared.
26 February 1960
A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus.
20 March 1969
A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter Ev with the village blacksmith Ruprecht in the hay.
30 December 1960
After their successful May party, now the Lehmann family want to throw a New Year's Eve part with punch.
24 October 1957
The bricklayer Ulli has received a letter from his girlfriend Sabine asking him to come to her from Berlin as soon as possible.
19 September 1978
A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.
03 March 1967
Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again starts courting ladies with fraudulent intentions.
29 March 1956
At a GDR farm, VEAB chief Amann bans cabbage in favor of cauliflower, enraging LPG accountant Gritt. Mistaking visiting writer Hans Brauer for a high-level inspector, Amann backpedals, clearing the harvest issue, while Brauer and Gritt spark an unexpected romance.
12 October 1962
It was supposed to be a cozy Christmas evening with the family. Labor Director Walter Lörke was particularly looking forward to it.
25 November 1973
Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to stay away from the organized class struggle.
13 January 1972
October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter.
15 April 1970
A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them.
25 July 1963
In San Marengo, master thief Cesare Giovanini’s heists leave local merchants profiting from hefty insurance claims.
28 September 2009
Young Friedrich is a loner. He doesn't want to work in his father's company later on, he wants to travel the world, become a writer and find the meaning of life.
09 November 1958
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other.
