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Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to make black painted clay heads of Karl Marx...

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

Martin Brandt (1903-1989), an unforgettable Jewish actor and former member of the Jewish Kulturbund Theater in Berlin, recites from Macbeth and...

A film about five street children; children who have had to grow up too soon. The footage was shot at Christmas 1992, in Berlin. Claudia, 13, wants...

Actor Manfred Krug reports on winter sports in the GDR. Numerous topics are covered in short segments: promoting young talent in winter sports,...

The epilogue to the film "The Laughing Man" (1966), which alternates between objectivity and anger, exposes the involvement of the West German...

Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad

A little man wants to order a warm coat from a fabric he has brought with him to a tailor's workshop in winter. He is laughed at and told that orders...

A documentary crew follows the December 1978 “big repair” at the Bernburg (Saale) cement works, normally shut only for maintenance, where...

Palermo, pearl of the Mediterranean, is one of the most popular holiday resorts for European and American tourists. What they do not see, however,...

A short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media.

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the...

With excerpts from Goethe's diary, sketches and engravings, this film follows Goethe's Italian Journey through Rome, Naples and Pompeii.

The East German documentary uncovers the postwar career of Heinz Reinefarth, the former SS general responsible for atrocities during the Warsaw...

At a Bach concert, a letter is read aloud in which the legation council of the Federal Republic of Germany tries to poach the musicians of the...

The final exam of sixteen and seventeen year olds at the end of the 10th grade. The individual in the minutes in which he is supposed to show what he...

Portrait of the industrialist Walter Hunger from Frankenberg in Saxony. He left the German Democratic Republic in 1958 with his family and closest...

Böttchers film showcases three young workers who learn how to paint, draw, and make sculptures out of stone. The film generated a storm of...