1964

Preludio 11

7/1

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot...

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Preludio 11

1962

At a French Fireside

8.75/2

Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldiers are ordered to be kind to the populace, since...

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At a French Fireside

1965

Ballade vom roten Mohn

7/2

Spain in the 1930s. The film tells of the fight of international troops against General Franco's army. It tells of the fate of three brigadists, the A...

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Ballade vom roten Mohn

1960

The Silent Star

4.902/82

A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched...

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The Silent Star

1963

The Russian Miracle

8/2

A two-part East German documentary tracing Russia’s transformation from the Tsarist Empire to the Soviet Union, from the 1917 October Revolution to th...

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The Russian Miracle

1963

Secret Archives on Elbe

9/1

The World War II. 1944. Nazis staged a cache which stores archival documents of its agents, rescued from the east during the retreat, near a small Ger...

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Secret Archives on Elbe

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

1965

Der Reserveheld

7/4

The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy about the army. So Horricht believes it a joke, when h...

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Der Reserveheld

1966

Alfons Zitterbacke

6.167/9

Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full of various mishaps.

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Alfons Zitterbacke

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

1958

The Black Battalion

6.5/2

A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.

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The Black Battalion

1953

Anna Susanna

7/1

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Anna Susanna

1964

Black Velvet

7/1

Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.

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Black Velvet

1961

Der Fremde

8/1

After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only looking for a new job, but also wanted to finally sett...

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Der Fremde

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

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

1968

Heroin

6/4

This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin,...

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Heroin

1958

The Sailor's Song

6.571/7

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solida...

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The Sailor's Song

1961

Der Tod hat ein Gesicht

8/1

Three chemists unveil “Substance L,” a pesticide capable of eradicating all life without harming material assets. When Dr. Zichy, haunted by his work...

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Der Tod hat ein Gesicht

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

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

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

1956

Das Traumschiff

6.5/2

The two half-orphans Reni and Rolf are 13 and 10 years old and they live with their grandmother in Berlin. Their father has died during the war, their...

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Das Traumschiff

1956

Meeting Point

6.75/4

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

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Meeting Point

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

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

The Moorhound

8/1

Two boys are helping the border guards to find a mysterious moor hound used by spies to transfer messages across the border.

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The Moorhound

1959

An Old Love

7/1

Frieda and August Walkowiak celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. However, the marriage has been in crisis for some time. August wants to spend hi...

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An Old Love

1962

Ärzte

7/1

Professor Heger's son was shot by the Gestapo during the war. Dr. Bram was also responsible for his death. After the war, working in Heger's clinic, B...

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Ärzte

1957

Don't Forget My Little Traudel

6.667/3

17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.

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Don't Forget My Little Traudel

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

My Wife Wants to Sing

0/1

Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into her head that she would like a career as...

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My Wife Wants to Sing

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

1966

Reise ins Ehebett

5/5

The captain of a ship of the merchant navy is always on the move because of his job – and has a different girlfriend in every harbour. But his friends...

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Reise ins Ehebett

1957

Sheriff Teddy

6.75/4

A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.

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Sheriff Teddy

1991

Das Kleid

8/2

Poor weavers Hans und Kumpan try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally m...

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Das Kleid

1973

Ripe Cherries

8/2

Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of a...

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Ripe Cherries

1970

Weil ich dich liebe …

8/1

Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His research colleagues are less than thrilled about his...

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Weil ich dich liebe …

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

1966

When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam

5.313/8

Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was cancelled in 1965/66 due to the film's poli...

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When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam

1969

Verdacht auf einen Toten

10/1

Dr. Roth, a respected veterinarian and head of a state-owned stud farm, had accepted papers from a man for safekeeping when he was 16 years old, towar...

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Verdacht auf einen Toten

1959

Der kleine Kuno

9/1

What do grown-ups actually do at night? Little Kuno has been asking himself this question a lot lately. One day, the curious six-year-old decides to g...

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Der kleine Kuno

1959

Senta's Gone Missing

6/3

The magnificent cow Senta has escaped from an LPG. Matuschek, a single farmer, joins the search. However, the valuable animal is not found and is beli...

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Senta's Gone Missing

1961

Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot

7/1

Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in fact an "aircraft commander". This assertion brings...

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Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot

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

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

Der Lotterieschwede

9/1

Bornholm island in 1880, where quarry worker Johan Jönsson lives a miserable life with his wife and children. He hopes to escape his poverty by winnin...

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Der Lotterieschwede

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

1963

Fog

6.667/3

At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in R...

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Fog

1960

Die heute über 40 sind

8/1

Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen.

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Die heute über 40 sind

1960

Kein Ärger mit Cleopatra

8/1

The black cooperative Cornwall boar achieves single-handedly, so to speak, what the LPG functionaries in Bolbitz fail to do. He takes away the individ...

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Kein Ärger mit Cleopatra

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

1956

Damals in Paris

7/1

1944: Geneviève and René live in occupied Paris. They love each other, and the young woman looks fearfully at René's activities in the Resistance. She...

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Damals in Paris

1953

Jacke wie Hose

10/1

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Jacke wie Hose

1952

The Condemned Village

8/1

East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.

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The Condemned Village

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

1966

Irrlicht und Feuer

9/1

Jürgen Fohrmann works as a hauer underground. In the course of the coal crisis, his mine closes - he loses the work. In this mood, his wife's prosperi...

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Irrlicht und Feuer