1972

Janus Head

9/1

World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being used to...

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Janus Head

1976

Carnations in Aspic

7/7

A commercial artist with a lisp chooses silence, unexpectedly propelling his career. His perceived innovation leads to rapid advancement in an ad agen...

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Carnations in Aspic

1973

Unterm Birnbaum

6.25/4

Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, i...

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Unterm Birnbaum

1975

Dass ihnen der arme Mann Feind wird

0/0

This documentary shows the German Peasants’ War between 1524 and 1525 and looks at the role of Thomas Müntzer in it. Müntzer, who was a follower and a...

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Dass ihnen der arme Mann Feind wird

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

1962

Fortress on the Rhine

8/1

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every poss...

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Fortress on the Rhine

1961

Das Stacheltier - Ein Pferd müßte man haben

0/0

Psichinski rings Mr. Semmler's doorbell and alerts him to strange noises in the attic. Together they sneak upstairs and discover a full-grown horse, w...

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Das Stacheltier - Ein Pferd müßte man haben

1963

Arnold Zweig

0/0

A short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media.

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Arnold Zweig

1965

As Long as There’s Life in Me

10/2

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Socia...

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As Long as There’s Life in Me

1974

Für die Liebe noch zu mager

6.125/4

At the textile company, everyone appreciates the work of 18-year-old Susanne, but nobody really considers her a woman—including Lutz, with whom she is...

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Für die Liebe noch zu mager

1976

Der Weg ins Nichts

0/0

In 1923, Judge Böhnsdorf and Inspector Dumke convict 22-year-old Fritz Bondersen of treason, accused of selling military secrets on the testimony of G...

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Der Weg ins Nichts

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

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

1954

Kein Hüsung

8/1

Mecklenburg, 19th century. For generations, the Brand family of farmers has worked a piece of land as tenants of the baron, who owns almost all of the...

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Kein Hüsung

1953

Die Unbesiegbaren

7.25/4

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat m...

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Die Unbesiegbaren

1964

Mir nach, Canaillen

6.571/7

A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and de...

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Mir nach, Canaillen

1968

The Russians Are Coming

5.722/9

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. During the hunt for...

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The Russians Are Coming

1975

Abenteuer mit Blasius

4.5/4

Ten-year-old Frantisek is traveling to Leipzig to visit his German friend Egon. On the train, he shares the compartment with three men. One of them, t...

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Abenteuer mit Blasius

1972

The Zernik Murder Case

5.313/8

After meeting the woman on the train Erwin Retzmann kills her in the forest.

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The Zernik Murder Case

1957

Katzgraben

9/1

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Katzgraben

1956

Junges Gemüse

10/1

At a GDR farm, VEAB chief Amann bans cabbage in favor of cauliflower, enraging LPG accountant Gritt. Mistaking visiting writer Hans Brauer for a high-...

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Junges Gemüse

1972

Sun Seekers

4.944/9

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.

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Sun Seekers

1977

Die Liebe und die Königin

0/0

In England in 1553, the marriage of Queen Mary Tudor to the Spanish crown prince Philip II is being considered. It is Simon Renard's task to force the...

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Die Liebe und die Königin

1971

Husaren in Berlin

7/5

Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.

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Husaren in Berlin

1967

Frozen Flashes

7.75/4

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But...

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Frozen Flashes

1959

Ware für Katalonien

5.5/4

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When...

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Ware für Katalonien

1975

Eine Stunde Aufenthalt

7/1

A disruption on the Berlin S-Bahn: passengers have an involuntary one-hour layover at Frankfurter Allee S-Bahn station and use the time to take a clos...

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Eine Stunde Aufenthalt

1974

Das Geschenk – eine beinliche Geschichte

0/0

How young people were manipulated to join the war during the Imperial Era.

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Das Geschenk – eine beinliche Geschichte

1975

Aus meiner Kindheit

7/1

Ernst is a student in Hamburg around 1900 and leads a life like many other young people. In his free time, he roams the colorful metropolis with his b...

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Aus meiner Kindheit

1968

Der Mord, der nie verjährt

10/1

In 1929 Berlin, the progressive editor-in-chief Bornstein is on trial for libel. An article in his magazine attempted to uncover the role that Reichsa...

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Der Mord, der nie verjährt

1970

Junge Frau von 1914

7/2

In 1914 Berlin, bank heiress Leonore Wahl and struggling Munich student Werner Bertin fall passionately in love, defying class and her parents’ expect...

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Junge Frau von 1914

1972

Despite It All!

6.8/5

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in...

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Despite It All!

1963

Carl von Ossietzky

10/1

The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).

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Carl von Ossietzky

1977

Dagny

3.75/4

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than...

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Dagny

1973

The Devil's Elixirs

6/2

Young seminary student Franziskus has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to th...

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The Devil's Elixirs

1975

Looping

3.333/3

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. In the explos...

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Looping

1975

Lotte in Weimar

5.8/5

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and whi...

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Lotte in Weimar

1961

Mother Courage and Her Children

7.25/4

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wago...

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Mother Courage and Her Children

1961

Italienisches Capriccio

10/2

Biography of the comic poet Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793).

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Italienisches Capriccio

1960

Seilergasse 8

7.667/3

The young lady Lisa Gau probably took her own life at Seilergasse 8 in Rostock, at least that's what it looks like. Captain Schirding, who has been as...

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Seilergasse 8

1967

The Girl on the Diving Board

6.667/3

The 18-year-old Katharina Jens is a high diving champion and succeeds in everything she does. When she enters an international contest in place of her...

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The Girl on the Diving Board

1958

Geschwader Fledermaus

7/1

An American transport squadron led by former General Lee supports the French colonial army in Vietnam in return for high pay. Originally their mission...

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Geschwader Fledermaus

1965

Ohne Paß in fremden Betten

10/1

Czech tourist Jelinek decides to take a ride on the "Ferris wheel" in Berlin, and as a result he lags behind the train and is left without his belongi...

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Ohne Paß in fremden Betten

1960

Einer von uns

9/1

A wrestler finds his political interest and activism through sport. However, this is extremely dangerous during the Nazi era and the workers' sports m...

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Einer von uns

1960

Die heute über 40 sind

8/1

Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen.

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Die heute über 40 sind

1962

Unbändiges Spanien

0/0

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

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Unbändiges Spanien

1957

Der Fackelträger

6.333/3

Senior public prosecutor Sänger from West Berlin has only one goal in mind: to finally be appointed to the Federal Court of Justice.

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Der Fackelträger

1955

Once Is Never

6.5/2

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local...

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Once Is Never

1979

Farewell to Peace

3.667/3

Prague 1913: The family of newspaper publisher Alexander Reither, traditionally reunited for a New Year's dinner, moves along convoluted and secretive...

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Farewell to Peace

1976

Rotfuchs

3.667/3

Letter carrier Eva is in her late twenties, unmarried and the mother of a twelve-year-old son. She falls in love with Jon, a bargeman who is unfortuna...

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Rotfuchs

1970

Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel

10/1

Paul Pospischiel loses his job in the great colliery collapse in the Ruhr, retrains and builds a new life for himself. One day, he receives a letter f...

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Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel

1965

The Adventures of Werner Holt

7.806/18

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the fro...

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The Adventures of Werner Holt

1976

Jede Woche Hochzeitstag

9/1

The widowed registrar Robert Zimmermann reconciles divorcing couples and finds happiness in love once again.

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Jede Woche Hochzeitstag

1970

On the Way to Lenin

5.667/3

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from...

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On the Way to Lenin

1960

People with Wings

5.6/5

This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Ges...

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People with Wings

1960

Necessary Years of Learning

7/1

Böttcher made his graduation film about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. Already here a striking feature of h...

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Necessary Years of Learning

1960

Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall

7/1

Under political pressure, a West German radio station stages a radio play about a Russian invasion of West Germany. A handsome fee convinced the unemp...

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Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall

1958

Das Stacheltier - Der junge Engländer

8/1

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1977

Mama, I’m Alive

4/9

In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists?...

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Mama, I’m Alive