Movies

Die Novemberrevolution 1918 (The November Revolution 1918) (1956) is a short East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike....

The founding phase of the Bauhaus in Weimar and its move to Dessau until its closure in 1932. The designs, models and reconstructed parts of the...

A creative and skilful montage as well as dramatically spot-on sound and music effects are combined in a snappy plot to offer a mordant commentary on...

TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his...

The film by Uwe Belz shows Krug in his major roles in films, as a performer as a jazz singer, and as a private person.

The leader of a group of young technicians tells us the story of the "Proxima Centauri Company", which may one day become reality. Four researchers...

He is not interested in all the beautiful flowers around him and would give anything for only one star from the sky. And what about the man in the...

Report from the party congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) from April 5 to 7, 1982 in Weimar.

Chicken Gock and the two mice are doing a big clean-up. Unfortunately, only Gock takes the work seriously.

The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim to power and its aesthetic effect. The basis for...

World War II is over and Heinrich, a young German boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act according to Communist principles in a small German...

The sun is drunk! She has emptied every beer barrel! Instead of going down, she has forgotten about time and is messing up the whole city. Will they...

GDR documentary reflecting Vietnamese women's lives in wartime. It focuses on fishing co­operatives, an artillery unit, teachers, children, and a...

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

Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.

Venus after Giorgione is the the second part of the "Over Paintings" (Uebermalungen) trilogy by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher)....

Elizabeth is an open-minded young person - curious and unbiased. She is sixteen, goes to secondary school and things are really going well, not least...

At the age of 18, Johann Sebastian Bach was ordered to Arnstadt to test the functionality and quality of a new organ. At the same time, as a musician...