Movies

A princess laments for her treasure. The knights Dick and Schick rush off to fetch it. A little bird joins them and they take it with them and defend...

Young people discuss life problems such as moving into their first apartment, but also how to shape their own future.

Family surprise. East German animated film.

Student film about hiding Jews during the Second World War.

A haunting love story using rotoscope and several fascinating optical techniques.

In 1952, the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) decides to establish a "Museum of German History" (MfDG) in the Zeughaus...

Uli has found an old book in the attic of the Kulturhaus that tells of the exploitation of the peasants by the feudal lords. He tries to imagine how...

Short film about the importance of sport in the GDR

1971 documentary about the concentration camp Sachsenhausen commissioned for the National Memorial and Monument Sachsenhausen (GDR).

Rainer Burmeister (director) tells a story about everyday working life of 46 young Mozambican people in the GDR who were employed as contract...

A hard-hearted nobleman chases away all of his aged servants. Only one thresher manages to stay in service. However, he cannot do the required work...

During a football match, three mice kick a few stones that hit a sleeping lion on the head. Then the ball lands in front of him and a mouse rolls...

A report on the oldest citizen of the GDR at the time, Emma Wagner from Gotha.

The nine sisters of light want to make the world a more beautiful and cheerful place and sing their song as they work. This enrages the Son of...

This film describes a yearning for beauty and gentleness. The philosopher Lothar Kühne was especially concerned with how we live and build. He...

Peter is a good football goalkeeper, but as much as his team can rely on him, he takes it so little exactly with his duties, with schoolwork and...

East German animated film.

Documentary about the Namibian struggle for independence under the apartheid regime and the support for said regime by the Federal Republic of...

Documentary focusing on socialism and East German industry and labour, including a script of Lenin's most famous writings and speeches.