1977

The Flight

8.333/3

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an es...

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The Flight

1978

Quiet American in Prague

8/2

In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in the immediate post-war years and tells the story o...

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Quiet American in Prague

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

1955

Das Stacheltier - Das Wartehäuschen

0/0

On a windswept country road outside Berlin, commuters have waited 25 weeks under a sign promising a new bus shelter. VEB engineer Schulz vows to escal...

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Das Stacheltier - Das Wartehäuschen

1976

Die Emser Depesche

0/0

Theme of this scenic documentation is the consistent preparation of the Franco-German War by Bismarck and leading Prussian military, who, with the hel...

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Die Emser Depesche

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

1956

Bold Adventure

5.833/12

In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, D...

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Bold Adventure

1969

The Bridge

7.048/21

In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being h...

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The Bridge

1972

Lekce

9/1

During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with information about Nazi plans...

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Lekce

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

1957

Rivals Behind the Wheel

9/1

Manfred Falk is an experienced race car driver and member of a racing collective in Eisenach. While competing in West Germany, the beautiful Manuela c...

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Rivals Behind the Wheel

1963

Es geht nicht ohne Liebe

0/0

Irene Klaussen, a brilliant, tomboyish Berlin student, falls for new classmate Peter Lemke. To prove herself, she follows him, first to a school dance...

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Es geht nicht ohne Liebe

1959

They Called Him Amigo

7/5

A refugee from a Nazi concentration camp is discovered by some boys in WWII Berlin. They provide him with food and help him to continue his flight. La...

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They Called Him Amigo

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

1961

Five Days, Five Nights

7/3

Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. While Dresden is in ruins,...

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Five Days, Five Nights

1973

Days of Betrayal

5.6/5

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politici...

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Days of Betrayal

1973

Kronika žhavého léta

6.5/2

A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar soci...

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Kronika žhavého léta

1975

The Day That Shook the World

6.063/8

An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in...

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The Day That Shook the World

1975

Akce v Istanbulu

8/1

A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret services, does not have it easy - he is threatened with e...

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Akce v Istanbulu

1980

Anamnese

9/1

While working in an Algerian hospital on the edge of the Sahara, a young GDR doctor gains the trust of the locals in his fight against insidious disea...

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Anamnese

1970

Tscheljuskin

0/0

In the 1930s, the Soviet ship "Chelyuskin" embarked on an expedition to the Northern Ocean. But soon there is an accident in the ice and the team can...

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Tscheljuskin

1953

Geheimakten Solvay

10/1

In the Werra valley near the border is one of the five soda factories of the GDR that once belonged to the powerful Solvay group. After the war, they...

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Geheimakten Solvay

1957

Two Mothers

10/1

The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.

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Two Mothers

1976

Such Bienchen

6/2

Bienchen is a little girl who is very worried regarding the private life of her older brother.

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Such Bienchen

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

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

1982

Der Mann von der Cap Arcona

9/1

1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of the ocean-liner Cap Arcona in 1945 - a...

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Der Mann von der Cap Arcona

1971

KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

9.75/2

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resist...

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KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

1958

Jahrgang 21

7/2

At the beginning of the Second World War, Czech music student Honsik comes to Germany from Prague to join a "foreign worker company". After rescuing a...

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Jahrgang 21

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

1972

Oasis

7.4/5

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six soldiers,...

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Oasis

1977

The Liberation of Prague

5.333/3

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague...

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The Liberation of Prague

1970

The Killer Is Sitting in Wembley Stadium

8/1

Just as a large payroll transport operation for a major company is being carried out by several employees of London's Celtic Bank, shots suddenly ring...

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The Killer Is Sitting in Wembley Stadium

1954

Pole Poppenspäler

7/1

On his travels, Paul, a journeyman from northern Germany, runs into a childhood friend, Lisei, a puppeteer's daughter. They fall in love and get marri...

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Pole Poppenspäler

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

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

1959

Der Ritter vom Mirakel

0/0

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Der Ritter vom Mirakel

1972

Walter Defends Sarajevo

7/32

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can en...

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Walter Defends Sarajevo

1957

Das tote Tal

0/0

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Das tote Tal

1970

Fatal Error

6.6/5

At the end of the 19th century, the Wyoming Oil Company has established itself in the vicinity of Wind River City at the foot of the Rocky Mountains,...

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Fatal Error

1974

Gunshots in Mariánské Lázně

6.5/2

In May 1945, a woman in Marienbad reports a murder - committed in 1933 against the German emigrant Professor Lessing. She also names the murderer. Aga...

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Gunshots in Mariánské Lázně

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

1959

Im Sonderauftrag

8/1

A warship returning from a training exercise was tasked with apprehending an unknown schooner that had violated GDR territorial waters. Although nothi...

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Im Sonderauftrag

1959

Reportage 57

7/1

The film centers on the story of newlyweds Inga and Heinz. Heinz works in the western sector of Berlin. A gang of crooks involved in various shady dea...

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Reportage 57

1959

SAS 181 antwortet nicht

8/1

Kurt, an apprentice in a fish combine, is an ambitious loner. He wants to show what a good sailor he is at a regatta, but fails because of his reckles...

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SAS 181 antwortet nicht

1965

Terra incognita

10/1

Film by Hanns Anselm Perten.

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Terra incognita

1960

Schritt für Schritt

9/1

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Schritt für Schritt

1962

Mord ohne Sühne

7/1

Based on an authentic case from the 1920s. The head country constable Heinz Lippert arrests the Polish farm worker Jakubowski on suspicion of murderin...

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Mord ohne Sühne

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

1970

Botschafter morden nicht

7/1

Crime thriller about a private detective who becomes involved in intrigues surrounding a missing woman and highly toxic chemicals.

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Botschafter morden nicht

1970

The Secret Agent's Destiny

6.167/12

After Tulyev's arrest, Soviet counterintelligence continues the radio game with the enemy, sending encryptions signed "Nadezhda" to the Western intell...

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The Secret Agent's Destiny

1971

The Key

6/4

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Comm...

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The Key

1962

The Coward

7.4/5

In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front y...

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The Coward

1963

Rauhreif

0/0

In 1960, 400,000 farmers are forced to join the LPG. After the forced collectivization, Thomas, son of the experienced LPG chairman Rothardt, is deleg...

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Rauhreif

1969

Adelsnest

0/0

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Adelsnest

1977

...inklusive Totenschein

8/2

Civil engineer Berger is looking for his mother and learns that she has died and was last in a home run by the notorious construction company Huberty....

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...inklusive Totenschein