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This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...

Documentary about a neck mill in Bulgaria

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

Documentary short.

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).

Protests in Hasselbach in the Hunsrück Mountains against the deployment of 96 Cruise Missiles.

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to...

A documentary about young people just starting their higher education and their professional life.

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria. We witness the friendly relationship...

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...