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A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

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...

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

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,...

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This...

The story of the Grünthal peasants' uprising against the commander who oppresses and exploits them.

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

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

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her...

The first summarizing film about the path of the class and the common stations in life. But also about the different paths in the profession, in...

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

They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration. They visit Weimar, the...

Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by...

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

A class reunion of the twenty-somethings in the old school. What one remembers, what the individual has new to tell. One of them: Marieluise. Her...

The film’s title is taken from a song, used here as a leitmotif, written by Günter Jordan and the East German rock group Pankow. This...

Using contemporary artistic representations in words and pictures, the documentary intends to create an overall view of the historical significance...