Peter Rabenalt Trailers
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That's How DEFA Sounded: Film Music from Babelsberg TrailerMiss Butterfly Trailer
Total trailers found: 32
18 August 1972
The King of Malabunt has won another war, after decorating himself and his three wooden marshals, he dismisses his army with a low wages.
23 February 1969
A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever daughter warns him that the king will surely want him to bring a corresponding pestle as well.
24 November 1983
1945. Peace still bears the traces of war everywhere. There meet the animated girl Xenia and the former boxer Henry.
13 December 1979
In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to America. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along with his family.
04 February 1966
After the death of their father, 18-year-old Helene Raupe (“coccoon”) and her younger sister Asta come under the guardianship of the youth welfare office in East Berlin.
22 February 1990
The story of German minority members who, after escaping from Wehrmacht, form a partisan unit named "Ernst Thalmann" in eastern Croatia.
20 May 1971
In his daydreams, 15-year old Otto is a real hero who masters dangerous situations by the dozen. But in reality, the rather imaginative ninth grader has trouble moving up to the next grade.
16 January 1975
The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness.
04 December 1969
Long-haul driver Hannes picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb, who had a falling-out with his parents after dropping out of college and now travels around doing odd jobs.
01 January 1966
Documentary about young workers in East Germany.
22 March 1969
London in 1856. Karl Marx is living in exile in the British capital. One day, "Mohr", as Marx is called by his friends, meets the 13-year old worker′s son Joe.
08 July 1977
Tambari - it's a name of an old boat which children of a small village on a Baltic sea shore got from an old fisherman Luden.
14 May 1982
A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has difficulty adjusting to life in Nazi Germany.
25 August 1967
Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic works, including The Weavers' Revolt (1893-97), The Peasant War (1902-08), Woman with the Dead Child (1903) and War (1922-23), her famous series of seven woodcuts.
18 October 1970
A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen.
07 May 1967
Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up with plans that are supposed to help others.
22 July 1982
Susanne is a young single mother who lives a somewhat "carefree" lifestyle. After quitting her job, she finds herself in trouble financially and attempts a minor insurance fraud to make ends meet.
28 February 1969
Dr. Barbara Heim, a heart surgeon, and Gunter Heim, a well-known actor, have been married for seven years.
13 February 1972
Unknown assailants threaten the life of British scientist Dr. Ronald Fergusson. Only by chance does the attempt to shoot him in the street fail.
12 December 1985
In 1794 Bützow, widow Hornborstel, a top goose breeder, presses Mayor Hane to marry her. Rebuffed, he bans free‐range geese under a “goose edict.
19 March 1992
A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
07 February 1991
Claudia and Georg Rattey, a married couple, have everything what people in their mid-thirties might wish for: a car, a farmhouse for vacations on the weekends, and their son Oliver.
26 September 1983
Mostly fictional episodes in the life of famous german social-critical painter Heinrich Zille.
17 November 1992
A group of young people draws straws to see who'll steal some cigarettes. With this theft, Sebastian starts a bizarre, symbolic odyssey through a sclerotic world, in search of himself and of truth and justice.
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 1967
The director describes the everyday life of a little boy who, as a "latchkey kid," has to spend the afternoon alone until his father finally comes home in the evening.
14 February 1980
Edith and Wolfgang have led a fairly harmonious family life for many years, together with their son Danilo.
28 September 1979
Around 1 billion apples are harvested every year in Havelland, one of the largest fruit-growing regions in the GDR.
15 June 1968
1936 in a small town near the Czechoslovakian border. Albert and Fritz are close friends. Albert lives with his aunt, who is loyal to the Nazis.
01 January 1966
A wealthy uncle dies suddenly. Everyone mourns his unexpected departure, but more for the diamond in his tie than for his sudden absence.
01 December 1973
Documentary about the "chief Indian" of DEFA, the actor Gojko Mitić. The popular actor talks about his life.
19 April 1974
Three kids from a small village in Mecklenburg decide to sneak away to East-Berlin in order to gift Angela Davis a lucky pig.