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The 17-year-old commercial student Doris, a young, blameless girl, lives with her relatives without parents. It is the nerve-wracking circumstances...

Documentary film

Inge Herold is in her mid-thirties. She is divorced and lives with her 15-year-old son. She works as a psychologist and social worker and is involved...

Ete and Ali are discharged from the army. Since Ete knows that his wife is having an affair, he doesn't want to go home. Ali tries to persuade his...

The film reports on the massive forest damage in the Ore Mountains on the Czech-German border and the desperate struggle of foresters and residents...

The television play by Werner Bernhardy depicts episodes from the life of Heinrich Zille as well as his much-praised "Milljöh". It tells of...

An American transport squadron led by former General Lee supports the French colonial army in Vietnam in return for high pay. Originally their...

Teenagers at risk who are cared for and trained in a "Jugendwerkhof", a borstal - a problem almost totally suppressed officially. The film enquires...

Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of...

A worker in his forties picks up a student on the highway in his car and is thus torn from his previous life. He learns to respect the attitudes and...

A report on the oldest citizen of the GDR at the time, Emma Wagner from Gotha.

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...

The Nikolaikirche is the oldest building in Berlin. The reconstruction of this building in 1981 marked the beginning of the reconstruction of the...

The first puppet animation film in the GDR shows the fairy tale about the quarrels of an unequal pair of animals, which is well-known in both German...

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

A teenager is found murdered, and the examining doctor recognizes her son's knife. The film works its way back to reveal how this situation came...

Paul Schulte takes a spa stay on the Baltic Sea to have his heart condition treated. His wife Barbara accompanies him and finds interest in the...

Scharnhorst, who said that the army should march at the forefront of progress, is one of the NVA's role models. The film uses historical material to...

A short social reportage with a working-class aesthetic and Brechtian alienation effect, aimed at a politically educated German audience.

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