Peter Gotthardt Trailers
That's How DEFA Sounded: Film Music from Babelsberg TrailerThe Legend of Paul and Paula Trailer
That's How DEFA Sounded: Film Music from Babelsberg TrailerThe Legend of Paul and Paula Trailer
Total trailers found: 47
26 December 1977
1929: Marie Lehning, a farm worker from Warmsdorf on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the fisherman's son Mingo.
25 February 1990
Otto is turning 65 and a big celebration with relatives and friends is coming up. What does life bring? A comfortable retirement, looking after his beloved grandchildren, lamenting the aches and pains of old age.
26 December 1981
Anton and his family moved into a high-rise building. In order for the new neighbors to accept his trumpet music, he has to perform a little "miracle" with the instrument.
15 April 1971
Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict.
16 March 1978
Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle.
22 June 2005
Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer".
03 September 1975
Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together.
02 February 1968
It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war.
17 June 1965
Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by conveying impressions of the women's everyday lives.
17 December 1967
On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway.
01 January 1984
A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their absent father for an extended vacation and so he has to learn how to be a proper Dad to them.
23 February 1973
Florian is the son an army general and very proud of him. When his father has to attend the annual 1st of May demonstration, Florian grabs his teddy bear and tries to follow his father.
03 October 1986
A portrait of Helga Hörz, professor of ethics and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
10 February 1972
Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.
01 January 1987
Documentary short about artist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938).
01 January 1974
This documentary about the Buchenwald concentration camp features interviews with survivors who describe their memories and experiences.
27 June 1968
Portrait of Interflug airline captain Günter Schneider.
14 March 1973
Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own.
10 October 1975
Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of cheese.
05 July 1979
In an enchanted forest, the princely brothers Michael and Andreas get lost and are transformed, by a mountain spirit who jealously guards his underground treasure, into animals until the unlikely event of sincere love from a human.
06 March 1970
They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration.
23 April 1987
Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later.
26 December 1977
Gunnar, a bigmouth, hitchhikes from Berlin to Rostock with his brother's duffel bag. Right at the start of his trip, he meets well-mannered Teresa, with whom he continues the journey in an old motorcycle.
17 May 1979
Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get married and have a child.
28 April 1983
Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where his father works as a construction worker.
30 November 1980
Martina and Jürgen are lovers in the GDR. She is studying economics in Leipzig, he is preparing for his master's examination as a violin maker in Altneukirchen in Vogtland.
30 September 1984
Ernst Triebel, a young doctor from the GDR, meets his childhood sweetheart, whom he thought was dead, on the last day of his stay in Santos.
26 September 1997
Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprised and ends up back in prison, where he is trained in military drill.
28 March 1987
The Oppen family has lived in Berlin, Griesener Straße, for generations. The first names of the family members are also repeated, so the grandson Jan has the same first name as his grandfather.
25 December 1984
Two best teenage friends spend the summer holidays together in a village. Then a good looking teenage boy appears.
29 July 1977
A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys to the viewer the new attitude to life of the people in the countryside.
05 July 1985
A nasty witch has stolen the Princess’ beautiful face. When the three little bunnies try to help the Princess, they also get bewitched and experience an adventurous chase.
24 December 1982
Puberty drama about the first love of a 15 year old girl from Berlin.
18 September 1974
15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of himself as an adult.
03 October 1984
Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Archangelskoje near Moskow to open the new legislative session because at seventy-five, she is the oldest representative in the German Reichstag.
26 September 2018
When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film images, but also some of the timeless melodies that were created in Babelsberg.
01 January 1970
"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropolis of East Berlin.
02 January 1988
The documentary reports on the most important stages of Thomas Müntzer's life, from his birthplace in Stolberg to his place of death in the Heldrungen fortress.
06 March 1987
The compilation film looks back on four decades of East German film production to mark the 40th anniversary of DEFA.
02 January 1983
A part of Earth's population are greedy and power-obsessed. They eat up and destroy everything. All of a sudden the planet Earth decides not to carry them anymore and they disappear in debris.
18 February 1966
A feuilletonistic conversation with the movie audience about the question: How do you feel about going to the movies? In general - and especially in summer? What do people expect from movies these days and what criticism do they have on their minds? The interviewees are vacationers of all ages and tastes.
04 August 1987
Documentary film about the agricultural and industrial district in Thuringia. The focus is on the district town of Erfurt, with Gotha, Eisenach and Weimar as other towns worthy of mention and steeped in tradition.
03 September 1971
Documentary about Albrecht Dürer to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth. The film presents a panorama of the German Renaissance, in which Dürer's life and work are integrated in the context of the development of science and technology, the apocalypse of the Peasants' War and the dawn of the modern era.
14 September 1984
A railway line is to be laid through remote Lusatian farmland. Surveyors herald the “new era” with their work.
17 November 1978
An insight into the culturally and historically significant region of Hadramaut.
01 January 1969
The women’s committees in the GDR factories promote the technical and ideological-political qualification of female staff members.
30 October 2008
A documentary about the hooligans and the rivalry of two football clubs in Leipzig.