Movies

A haunting love story using rotoscope and several fascinating optical techniques.

This is the second installment in the Disco Film series to feature the Puhdys, a popular East German rock band. Their songs "Sturmvogel" ("Petrel")...

Documentary short

East German short film directed by Martin Engelhardt

On the occasion of the GDR Landeskulturgesetz (Law on the Conservation and Protection of the Environment), passed in 1970, the speaker explains the...

Rolf Jarschel’s passion are lighters of every kind. He owns the largest collection in Europe with over 3,000 items. From Phoenician oil lamps...

Der 13. Oktober – 1. Der durchbrochene Kreis (1949) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike and produced by DEFA. As part of...

Overview of raw and finished products of the chemical industries in the GDR.

Short film about the production of artificial leather

The film honors the achievements of the NVA in preparing and securing the World Festival. It documents the opening, the demonstrations of the GDR...

East German short film directed by Andrea Ritterbusch

This black-and-white documentary reports on a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in East Berlin from March 24 to 29,...

The self-taught nature filmmaker Ingeborg Tölke uses quotes from literary encounters with the flora and fauna of the moor in a gentle approach...

Accompanying Liselotte Schließer, who worked full time as a technical draughtswoman, in her private and professional daily life. She talks...

With no introduction, the audience find themselves in the middle of the film’s subject. Soviet ballet master Arkady Sakharov instructs the...

It’s only after the separation from her husband that another man tells her how valuable she is: the Chladek family, she’s a teacher,...

Instructional short about the cleaning procedures on German trains.

A fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

Documentary film footage of ground personnel starting the propeller of an American B-17 bomber is repeated in a tightly edited, rhythmic structure....

Four generations of one familiy live in the heart of the Spreewald, close to the coalmines and power stations. From their elders, the children have...