1984

Mit vierzig hat man noch Träume

10/1

Helene Sonntag, 40, unmarried and a teacher. She has long dreamed of happy partnership, but things turn out as they should. In order to avoid the work...

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Mit vierzig hat man noch Träume

1962

Star-Crossed Lovers

8.833/3

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is sente...

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Star-Crossed Lovers

1965

Entlassen auf Bewährung

7.75/2

After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is able to complete a printing apprenticeshi...

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Entlassen auf Bewährung

1971

Verwandte und Bekannte

10/1

Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to t...

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Verwandte und Bekannte

1983

Die lieben Luder

10/1

Factory workers Yvonne and Evchen have their nose full of married men who appeal to them again and again in their home for a short adventure. In short...

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Die lieben Luder

1962

Die Nacht an der Autobahn

10/1

A young doctor has to spend a night in a lonely house near the transit highway. Unexpectedly, he witnesses East-West smuggling operations, which he ma...

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Die Nacht an der Autobahn

1971

Filmemacher

8/1

They are just 17 years old when Gaby and Eva receive the offer to play in a feature film that ambitious Hamburg filmmakers want to make. Despite their...

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Filmemacher

1971

Optimistische Tragödie

0/0

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Free Anarchist-Revolutionary Section”. This regiment...

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Optimistische Tragödie

1973

Zement

9/1

Early 1921: a man is on his way home. Gleb Chumalov, regimental commander, worker and Hero of the Order of the Red Banner, returns to his home town fr...

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Zement

1977

The Iron Fortress

10/1

Weeks after the victory in Vietnam, first pictures of a new humanity are captured: old and sick people preparing for their future, children on their w...

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The Iron Fortress

1977

And Then the First Rice

0/0

Stories from the first summer after the end of the war in Vietnam

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And Then the First Rice

1962

Ach, du fröhliche

5.5/6

It was supposed to be a cozy Christmas evening with the family. Labor Director Walter Lörke was particularly looking forward to it. But then his daugh...

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Ach, du fröhliche

1986

Ernst Thälmann

8.5/2

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on...

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Ernst Thälmann

1976

Eine Chance für Manuela

0/0

Dr. Zacharias is an experienced and demanding woman. She sees her daughter Manuela as the continuation and fulfillment of her own life. She wants her...

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Eine Chance für Manuela

1968

Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

9/1

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to be shot as a spy. This decision is con...

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Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

1992

Everything's a Lie

4.333/7

Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful busi...

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Everything's a Lie

1964

The Song of the Trumpeter

7/1

Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his friend Alfons, a World War I veteran,...

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The Song of the Trumpeter

1967

The Banner of Kryvyi Rih

7.5/2

In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, give their flag as a gift to the locals of...

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The Banner of Kryvyi Rih

1985

Irrläufer

10/1

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Irrläufer

1972

Der Regimentskommandeur

8/1

Major Bert Harkus takes over the artillery regiment in Jesnack after graduating from the military academy. The troop proudly presents itself during an...

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Der Regimentskommandeur

1977

Der Hasenhüter

6.667/3

The young shepherd Konrad wants to ask the princess to marry him. All the exhortations of the kitchen maid Anne are to no avail. With the help of a ma...

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Der Hasenhüter

1963

Chronicle of a Summer

6.75/4

In the late fifties a large industrial complex was built near Schwedt, in the GDR. This low budget film tells about the voluntary participation of the...

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Chronicle of a Summer

1964

Divided Heaven

6.409/22

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred,...

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Divided Heaven

1968

The Dead Stay Young

8/1

A depiction of class conflicts in Germany between 1918 and 1945. The Spartacist Erwin is shot by officers in 1918, and his pregant working-class bride...

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The Dead Stay Young

1964

Pension Boulanka

5.8/5

A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating te...

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Pension Boulanka

1981

Platz oder Sieg?

8/1

Silvia and her boyfriend Lutz, both aged twenty, work as jockeys at a big racing stable and have their whole life in front of them. But while Lutz wou...

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Platz oder Sieg?

1960

Life Begins

8/1

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in Brandenburg, to W...

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Life Begins

1981

Die Stunde der Töchter

3/3

A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain o...

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Die Stunde der Töchter

1965

Studentinnen

8/1

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 convey...

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Studentinnen

1968

Mit beiden Beinen im Himmel - Begegnung mit einem Flugkapitän

0/0

Portrait of Interflug airline captain Günter Schneider.

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Mit beiden Beinen im Himmel - Begegnung mit einem Flugkapitän

1971

In Syrien auf Montage

0/0

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria. We witness the friendly relationship betwe...

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In Syrien auf Montage

1987

Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...

5.667/9

Fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke is a Hitler Youth fanatic who is devastated to learn a hidden truth about his respected father who was a German officer...

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Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...

1968

The Boss Will Be Here at Noon

10/1

A dead body is found in a burning car on the Berlin-Leipzig highway. The police investigate: Murder. Objects found in the car point to gold smuggling....

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The Boss Will Be Here at Noon

1961

Ein Sommertag macht keine Liebe

7/1

During a weekend spent on the island Hiddensee, the snobbish high school student Jan, who has just been expelled from school, meets Christine. Christi...

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Ein Sommertag macht keine Liebe

1967

Kaule

8.5/2

Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up wit...

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Kaule

1966

Trace of Stones

6.138/29

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems. New...

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Trace of Stones

1964

When Martin Was Fourteen

6.75/4

Martin′s and his girlfriend′s Kathrin′s childhood comes to an abrupt end in 1920, when their Mecklenburg village is drawn into the events surrounding...

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When Martin Was Fourteen

1979

The Goose-Girl at the Fountain

5.583/6

A young blacksmith, searching for happiness in a series of dreams, realizes that he must find a rejected princess and hold her hand. A fairytale after...

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The Goose-Girl at the Fountain

1970

Der Panzerkommandant

0/0

Tank commander Sergeant Tessen does not believe that his crew can become a successful collective and requests his transfer, but he finally withdraws h...

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Der Panzerkommandant

1990

Abschiedsdisco

4/5

A village has to be destroyed for coal mining. Henning, a 15 years old boy, who wants to visit his grandfather one more time, realizes that nothing wi...

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Abschiedsdisco

1973

Ferien und das alte Haus

0/0

A black-and-white children’s film follows class 6b during their autumn holidays. After a fun test drive with a new electric locomotive, they help Mast...

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Ferien und das alte Haus