Movies

Experimental film

Three international students write letters home about their time in East Germany. Antonio Dega, a Cuban studying shipbuilding, writes home about the...

A well-made film reflecting Vietnamese women's lives in wartime. It focuses on fishing co­operatives, an artillery unit, teachers, children, and...

A portrait of Helga Hörz, professor of ethics and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This...

Hier deutsche Volkspolizei (1972) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike and Peter Vatter. Commissioned by the Ministry of the...

East German short film

Alle Ideen beginnen als Traum (All Ideas Begin as a Dream) (1987) is an East German documentary directed by Annelie Thorndike. The film follows...

A couple of good friends find a bottle containing a little devil. The devil manages to trick the naive friends to release him. As a result, several...

An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

Father's behavior towards his fellow human beings is thoughtless and without consideration. But when he gets into a difficult situation, the...

A bird saves a little tree from withering.

The East German Volksmarine Academy "Karl Liebknecht" introduces itself.

A girl is sitting in the garden doing schoolwork and is distracted by butterflies flying around. She throws away her pen and runs after the...

The life stories of four people struggling with alcohol addiction allow for conversations about the apparent "normalcy" of alcohol and the subsequent...

Rostock - GDR county on the Baltic. This county covering the northern part of the GDR is the welcoming destination of many people: holidaymakers,...

Rainer Burmeister (director) tells a story about everyday working life of 46 young Mozambican people in the GDR who were employed as contract...

All sorts of shenanigans happen at the East German army's recreation home.