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Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).

In 1986, 60% of all machine tools in the GDR were produced by WMW "Fritz Heckert" in Karl-Marx-Stadt. This documentary introduces some of the Heckert...

Documentary short about the Leipzig Tradefair in 1946.

An East German documentary film using archival footage to attempt a connection between Imperial Germany, the government of the Weimar Republic, and...

Impressions of a playground in Berlin. It is also the playing field of the elderly chess and card players - counterpoint to the argument of isolation...

A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality.

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. Icebreakers...

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...

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her...

Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad

Summertime in Prerow at the Baltic Sea. A cheerful film with the spirit of the sixties.

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to...

Documentary about weaving and braiding

The film sheds light on the topic of the high divorce rate among young people in the form of journalistic statements and scenes as well as...

On October 13, 1957, cash was exchanged in the GDR (old bills 1:1 for new bills). The film reports on this event.

A sequence of nine individual biographical sketches with a prologue and epilogue on Golzow and the long-term observation. Deepening of the preceding...

The documentary tells the story of the Volksmarinedivision, which was formed by revolting sailors stationed in Berlin during the November Revolution....

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