1973

The Legend of Paul and Paula

5.793/29

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome...

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The Legend of Paul and Paula

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

1974

Der erste Urlaubstag

10/1

In a village, there is reason to gossip and mock. As a kind of reward, the workaholic tractor driver Andreas is sent on vacation for a few days before...

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Der erste Urlaubstag

1970

Folge einem Stern

7/1

A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen. Now, after graduating from a teach...

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Folge einem Stern

1966

The Sons of Great Bear

5.063/16

As American settlers encroach on the lands of the Lakota people, Tokei-ihto witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of Red Fox, who wanted inf...

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The Sons of Great Bear

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

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

1965

Carla

6.688/8

An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new an...

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Carla

1968

Schüsse unterm Galgen

9/1

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scot...

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Schüsse unterm Galgen

1965

Just Don't Think I'll Cry

7.389/9

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writ...

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Just Don't Think I'll Cry

1963

Christine

8/1

Christine is a young farm worker in a small village in post-war Germany. Her attempts to improve her situation through further education are hampered...

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Christine

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

1966

Berlin Around the Corner

5.143/7

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack...

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Berlin Around the Corner

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

1967

Stories of That Night

6.667/3

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There...

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Stories of That Night

1967

Pinocchio

6.5/2

The puppet boy Turli, who was only recently been carved from wood by the toymaker Kasimir, suddenly springs to life. Turli has nothing but nonsense on...

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Pinocchio

1966

Miss Butterfly

8/2

After the death of their father, 18-year-old Helene Raupe (“coccoon”) and her younger sister Asta come under the guardianship of the youth welfare off...

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Miss Butterfly

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

1965

Tiefe Furchen

6/2

Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red S...

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Tiefe Furchen

1969

Mohr und die Raben von London

9/1

London in 1856. Karl Marx is living in exile in the British capital. One day, "Mohr", as Marx is called by his friends, meets the 13-year old worker′s...

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Mohr und die Raben von London

1965

The Rabbit Is Me

6.615/13

Maria, a young student sees her brother Dieter going to prison for sedition against the state. She starts an affair with Paul, a judge who turns out t...

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The Rabbit Is Me

1963

Carbide and Sorrel

6.917/12

After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to tra...

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Carbide and Sorrel

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

1968

Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle

4.875/8

This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely based on a true story. After the war, Florian's reimb...

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Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle

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

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

1963

Naked Among Wolves

6.273/22

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

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Naked Among Wolves

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

1967

Frau Venus und ihr Teufel

6.5/2

Hans Müller finds himself on a trip in Thüringen, accompanied by his loving female friend, Moritz. Hans doesn't understand much about trust, which con...

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Frau Venus und ihr Teufel

1957

Tinko

8.25/2

After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work on his own, flatly refusing to join any collectiv...

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Tinko

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

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

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

1965

Spring Takes Time

6.3/5

Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arrested and accused of approving a defective pipelin...

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Spring Takes Time

1966

The Journey to Sundevit

5.214/7

Little Tim Tammer, the son of a lighthouse keeper, lives right on the Baltic Sea beach, but his remote home often leaves him feeling lonely. When Youn...

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The Journey to Sundevit

1969

Long Roads - Secret Love

5.5/4

Long-haul driver Hannes picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb, who had a falling-out with his parents after dropping out of college and now travels around...

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Long Roads - Secret Love

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

1969

Time to Live

6.333/3

The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a socialist German state, learns that he h...

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Time to Live

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

1961

Mord an Rathenau

7/1

Germany 1922 during the Weimar Republic: Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau signs the Treaty of Rapallo between Germany and the Soviet Union. German na...

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Mord an Rathenau

1973

Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist

6.6/5

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to sta...

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Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist

1963

For Eyes Only

6.429/7

The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the US Army. For years, espionage, sabotag...

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For Eyes Only

1969

Nebelnacht

8/1

When a motorcyclist dies in an accident, lieutenant Kreutzer and his colleague Arnold receive the order to investigate the backgrounds of this mysteri...

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Nebelnacht

1962

On the Sunny Side

7/1

The story of the steel melter Martin Hoff, whose factory delegates him to a drama school, corresponds to the real life of the actor Manfred Krug. Like...

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On the Sunny Side

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

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

1972

Hammer or Anvil

7/1

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having se...

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Hammer or Anvil

1965

Lot's Wife

10/1

The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days. T...

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Lot's Wife

1967

Der Revolver des Corporals

7/1

Film by Rolf Losansky.

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Der Revolver des Corporals

1958

Der Prozeß wird vertagt

5.75/4

In 1955, Michael Vierkant, a Jew who had emigrated during the Nazi era, returns from abroad to the Federal Republic of Germany to obtain the convictio...

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Der Prozeß wird vertagt

1966

Flucht ins Schweigen

7/1

During construction work in a small town in Thuringia, the burial of an unidentified man in an SS uniform with gunshot wounds is discovered. Taking in...

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Flucht ins Schweigen

1967

Brot und Rosen

10/1

At the VII Party Congress of the SED, a delegate tells a reporter his life story: 18-year-old returning soldier Georg Lendau ends up in a small villag...

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Brot und Rosen

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

1965

The Best Years

6.25/4

In 1945, Ernst Machner returns home from the war in his mid-20s. Tuche would like him to weave for a living, but his comrades persuade him to become a...

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The Best Years

1963

In Love and Previously Convicted

5.5/4

The young architect Hannelore becomes part of the all-male brigade Fröhlich whose members are supposed to build houses at the Strausberger Platz in Be...

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In Love and Previously Convicted

1960

Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt

10/1

Film by Frank Vogel.

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Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt

1959

Občan Brych

7/2

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his former lov...

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Občan Brych

1990

Monolog für einen Taxifahrer

9/1

A film about the experiences of a cab driver who drives a young, heavily pregnant woman who has collapsed in a store to hospital. The encounters durin...

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Monolog für einen Taxifahrer

1969

Androcles and the Lion

7/1

Rome at the time of the persecution of Christians: Androclus, a poor tailor, frees a lion in the forest from terrible pain caused by a thorn in his pa...

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Androcles and the Lion

1963

Julia lebt

8/1

GDR border guard Gunter Rist is a young man from humble homes. During a swimming competition he meets Penny, a professor’s daughter from a good family...

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Julia lebt

1963

Ein Mann und sein Schatten

0/0

At a farm-equipment plant, production lags at 89 % and a new, untested combine proves a “failure” in the fields. A promising redesign exists, crafted...

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Ein Mann und sein Schatten

1966

Oben fährt der große Wagen

7/1

Story of two young people: Andrea and Christian, called Krischan. The movie and their adventure begins when they enter an old town by the sea: Stralsu...

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Oben fährt der große Wagen

1968

Alchimisten

8/1

Two-part TV movie about the inadequate production methods of a chemical plant, which come to light due to an accident and lead to numerous complaints....

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Alchimisten

1966

Memento

5.333/3

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots of grav...

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Memento

1971

Standesamt - Eintritt frei

7/1

East Berlin, early 1970s: the funny, somewhat eccentric repair mechanic Roland and the cashier Christel quickly become a couple. After some back and f...

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Standesamt - Eintritt frei