1962

Star-Crossed Lovers

8.833/3

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is sente...

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Star-Crossed Lovers

1960

Five Cartridges

7.556/9

It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an international brigade is badly wounded he gives his five comr...

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Five Cartridges

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

1973

Zement

9/1

Early 1921: a man is on his way home. Gleb Chumalov, regimental commander, worker and Hero of the Order of the Red Banner, returns to his home town fr...

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Zement

1962

Die Nacht an der Autobahn

10/1

A young doctor has to spend a night in a lonely house near the transit highway. Unexpectedly, he witnesses East-West smuggling operations, which he ma...

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Die Nacht an der Autobahn

2007

Meer is nich

5.5/2

Lena, 17, is restless and desperate. In a few weeks she will finish school, but she doesn't have any definite plans for her future. She wants to make...

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Meer is nich

1999

Hans im Glück

4.4/5

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Hans im Glück

1981

Der Spiegel des großen Magus

6/2

The evil and powerful King Magus brutally subjugates the people of his kingdom. Anyone who does not want to submit is turned into an animal and locked...

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Der Spiegel des großen Magus

1962

Die Weber

0/0

The emaciated weavers deliver their homework to the factory owner Dreißiger and receive their wages, on which they cannot live and cannot die. Driven...

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Die Weber

1974

Maria und der Paragraph

7/1

Maria is a record saleswoman by profession. She is lucky to have a job, because the year is 1930 and a major economic crisis has hit the world, accomp...

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Maria und der Paragraph

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

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

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

1972

Die große Reise der Agathe Schweigert

9/1

Overnight, Ernst has to leave his mother Agathe and Nazi Germany for Paris because he took part in a protest. But there, all traces of him are lost. A...

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Die große Reise der Agathe Schweigert

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

1974

The Sinking of Emma

6.4/5

A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their friend - the old captain.

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The Sinking of Emma

1962

The Hunt for the Boot

10/1

Germany 1932, constant fights between Communists and Nazis tear the country apart. When a Communist is found dead, the police accuses another Communis...

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The Hunt for the Boot

1975

Die Überlebende

9/1

A writer researching an international partisan group during World War II meets with a contemporary witness. Together, they visit the sites of the even...

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Die Überlebende

1979

The Goose-Girl at the Fountain

5.583/6

A young blacksmith, searching for happiness in a series of dreams, realizes that he must find a rejected princess and hold her hand. A fairytale after...

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The Goose-Girl at the Fountain

1995

Nikolaikirche

4.5/4

The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her father, a high-ranking officer in the People's Po...

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Nikolaikirche

1980

Dark Sun

5.286/7

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon confronts manipulative ag...

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Dark Sun

1977

The Island of the Silver Herons

7/2

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them. Hein...

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The Island of the Silver Herons

1989

Weiße Kreide für Franziska

9/0

A little girl who is eagerly awaiting the day she starts school falls ill and misses the big moment. Her disappointment is alleviated by loving parent...

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Weiße Kreide für Franziska

1966

Die Tage der Commune

0/0

Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleeding workers of Paris who enthusiastical...

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Die Tage der Commune

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

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

1961

Professor Mamlock

7.15/10

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his...

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Professor Mamlock

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

1981

Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth

7/1

Johann Paul Schroth is a 20-year-old barber's apprentice who breaks out of the barber-surgeon's trade. Schroth wants to realize his dream, which is to...

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Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth

1975

Frau Jenny Treibel

8/1

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Frau Jenny Treibel

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

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

1963

Drei Kriege - 1. Teil: Tauroggen

0/0

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Drei Kriege - 1. Teil: Tauroggen

1981

Die Kolonie

10/1

South America at the beginning of the 1980s. A man is on the run from a group of armed pursuers. He does not manage to escape and is shot down mercile...

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Die Kolonie

1978

Jörg Ratgeb, Painter

10/1

On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off o...

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Jörg Ratgeb, Painter

1977

Auftrag: Überleben

9/1

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Auftrag: Überleben

1979

Lachtauben weinen nicht

7/1

The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a strong comradeship. Among the workers are, for instan...

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Lachtauben weinen nicht

1969

The Seventh Year

7/1

Dr. Barbara Heim, a heart surgeon, and Gunter Heim, a well-known actor, have been married for seven years. They have a six-year-old daughter. Both par...

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The Seventh Year

1982

Der Teufelskreis

0/0

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Der Teufelskreis

1999

Das Schloß meines Vaters

9/1

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Das Schloß meines Vaters

1972

Prof. Dr. med. Maria Fabian

0/0

Maria and Tatjana met during the Second World War and became friends for life, especially as they had to endure difficult days together during the Hit...

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Prof. Dr. med. Maria Fabian

1976

Auf der Suche nach Gatt

0/0

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Auf der Suche nach Gatt

1968

Die entführte Braut

0/0

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Die entführte Braut

1976

Man nennt mich jetzt Mimi...

9/1

A young married couple is in love. Both believe that the other has it easier in life. To find out who is right in this matter, they swap clothes: Anna...

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Man nennt mich jetzt Mimi...

1979

Schatzsucher

10/1

The 18-year-old construction worker Schultzendorf, known as Schulle, sets off for Berlin from his home town of Ankershagen. He is taken with the Marza...

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Schatzsucher

1963

Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes

6/2

Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against the Nazi criminal Eichmann. Disgusted by the mons...

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Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes

1979

Ein Mädchen aus Schnee

6.667/3

The children’s film is based on Wenjamin Kawerin’s short story "Leichte Schritte". It centers on the ten-year-old Peter who is in love with his classm...

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Ein Mädchen aus Schnee

1987

I Thought You Liked Me

8/4

On the way to summer camp, eleven-year-old Lena develops a crush on Wolfgang, but Antonia is interested in him too. Although Lena and Wolfgang grow cl...

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I Thought You Liked Me

1958

Das Loch in der Mauer

0/0

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Das Loch in der Mauer

1961

Steinzeitballade

9/1

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Steinzeitballade

1967

Der Revolver des Corporals

7/1

Film by Rolf Losansky.

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Der Revolver des Corporals

1963

The Secret Of The Seventeen

9/1

Lothar, Olaf, Bob and the other pioneers have the task of looking after the castle above the town. However, they mainly get up to mischief, which is w...

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The Secret Of The Seventeen

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

1999

Two in a Boat

7/2

Three children and their Grandpa are on a kayak-outdoor trip in the middle of nowhere, when their Grandpa suffers a heart attack in the wilderness - t...

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Two in a Boat

1961

The Gleiwitz Case

6.909/11

To justify their invasion of Poland at the start of WWII, Nazi high command hatches a secret plan: six Polish men from an SS training camp are sent on...

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The Gleiwitz Case

1990

The Dove on the Roof

6/7

Three people from very different walks of life meet at a large construction site. Young, unmarried, self-confident construction manager Linda Hinrichs...

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The Dove on the Roof

1961

Das Ganze halt

0/0

The FRG is planning an attack on the GDR with the "Deko II" maneuver. This thesis is used to legitimize the construction of the "Anti-Fascist Protecti...

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Das Ganze halt