Paths in the Night

Ware für Katalonien

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When

1959

Just Don't Think I'll Cry

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writ

1965

Eastern Cross

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film

1991

Until Death Do Us Part

Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get married and have a child. When Sonya wants to go

1979

Coded Message for the Boss

Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrica

1979

Außenseiter

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 valuab

1985

Hart am Wind

The electrician Peter Drews is a brigadier at a Baltic Sea dockyard. His men are among the most reliable and diligent workers at the dockyard. Their m

1970

… verdammt, ich bin erwachsen

15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of himself as an adult. He can hold a lot of rhubarb win

1974

Pugowitza

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 v

1981

Bird Waking Weather

Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legalize" their relationship. Jette loves him, but the pr

1976

Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, liv

2007

Verzeihung, sehen Sie Fußball?

A high-rise building in the center of Berlin in the GDR on July 11, 1982. The final match of the soccer World Cup is being broadcast on television. Fi

1983

Ete and Ali

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 fri

1985

Farewell

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will no

1968

Schwester Agnes

Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with the new mayor. The consequences leave an entire comm

1975

The Baldheaded Gang

August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates mischief in the GDR. After some careless wo

1963

Das Geständnis

In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do

2015

Silent Country

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the letharg

1992

Divided Heaven

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred,

1964

Eine Pyramide für mich

A conference is to be held once again to discuss the construction of a new dam, which Professor Paul Satie rejects. During a train journey, he spontan

1975