1967

A Lord of Alexander Square

6.625/4

Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again start...

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A Lord of Alexander Square

1963

Sunday Drivers

6.5/4

On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to the West. The initiator is the philistine Spiessack...

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Sunday Drivers

1954

The Mysterious Wreck

8/1

Several children find out what's the matter with a wreck offshore, which puts them into jeopardy.

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The Mysterious Wreck

1954

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

5.667/9

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early Novem...

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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

1968

Mitten im kalten Winter

0/0

Winter of 1943. Cheerful, shy beginning of a tender love between the electric fitter Paul, who works on the estate on the power poles and the girl Ann...

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Mitten im kalten Winter

1957

Castles and Cottages

8/1

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the...

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Castles and Cottages

1956

Vicious Circle

10/1

Shortly after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933, preparations were underway to silence the members of the socialist and co...

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Vicious Circle

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

1954

Stronger Than the Night

8/1

The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, imprisoned in a concentration camp and tortured. The Ge...

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Stronger Than the Night

1960

New Year’s Eve Punch

5.4/5

After their successful May party, now the Lehmann family want to throw a New Year's Eve part with punch. Wilhelm's sons Franz and Paul are brigade lea...

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New Year’s Eve Punch

1973

Der Mann

0/0

A man being discussed by two young ladies is wrestling with death. How did it come to this? In the plot of this crime drama, false and real feelings a...

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Der Mann

1957

Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...

6.531/16

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in love wi...

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Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...

1955

Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

7.143/7

This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918:...

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Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

1956

A Berlin Romance

6.071/7

Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall. Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West. B...

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A Berlin Romance

1963

The Baldheaded Gang

6.25/4

August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates mischief in the GDR. After some careless wo...

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The Baldheaded Gang

1957

Bahrenburg Stories

7/1

A story about a group of children in German town of Bahrenburg who are trying to build themselves a swimming pool.

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Bahrenburg Stories

1957

Old Boat and Young Love

6.4/5

The stubborn old skipper Heinrich Borchert refuses to recognize the progress of the new era. Sailing for the DSU is out of the question for him. He is...

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Old Boat and Young Love

1954

Gefährliche Fracht

9/1

During the unloading of the freighter "Florida", West German dock workers discover napalm bombs instead of the specified precision machines - and a de...

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Gefährliche Fracht

1980

Dach überm Kopf

5/5

Karoline Gluth is approaching forty, has an 18-year-old son who is studying and is therefore independent. She decides to start a new life and says goo...

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Dach überm Kopf

1956

Recovery

5.667/6

The authorities expect the case of Friedel Walter, alias "Dr. Mueller," to be a straightforward one: he was working as a doctor without proper credent...

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Recovery

1966

Die Mutter und das Schweigen

7/1

Based on a true story from 1936: Klara Baumann, a working-class woman, communist and mother, flees her German homeland for neighboring Czechoslovakia....

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Die Mutter und das Schweigen

1961

Der Arzt von Bothenow

8/1

The son of a working-class man, Harry Brenner studied medicine at the ABF and quickly made a career as a doctor in Berlin. His lifestyle and his deman...

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Der Arzt von Bothenow

1956

Distinguishing marks: none

8/1

Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She fin...

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Distinguishing marks: none

1959

Der verlorene Ball

10/1

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1964

Die Hochzeit von Länneken

9/1

The little island of Laenneken is a place where time seems to stands still. Traditional customs and age-old power relations are still in place and are...

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Die Hochzeit von Länneken

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!

1959

The Punch Bowl

8/1

It is the 65th birthday of Wilhelm Lehmann, foreman of a chemical company. All members of the large family are expected. Preparations are also being m...

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The Punch Bowl

1975

Pirate with Obstacles

9/1

The fisherman's son Christian, called Spinner, has a lively imagination. When he is sailing with his pirate sailboat, he feels like the sailor Magella...

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Pirate with Obstacles

1961

The Dream of Captain Loy

8/1

An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Among them are the British Captain Loy and...

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The Dream of Captain Loy

1961

Eine Handvoll Noten

8/1

Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plans: As a passionate trumpeter, he wants to study mu...

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Eine Handvoll Noten

1958

Klotz am Bein

9/1

The construction of five houses for a workers' housing cooperative has been delayed due to a shortage of workers. It is winter and it is foreseeable t...

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Klotz am Bein

1958

Ein Mädchen von 16 ½

7/1

The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders thr...

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Ein Mädchen von 16 ½

1960

Schritt für Schritt

9/1

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Schritt für Schritt

1962

Das verhexte Fischerdorf

6.5/2

Mauritius Halbermann, nicknamed "Mauts", works as an advertising manager for Gravo-Druck, a state-owned print company. Mauts, a man obsessed with his...

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Das verhexte Fischerdorf

1962

Men and Beasts

6.091/11

The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the di...

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Men and Beasts