Movies

Stream of visual images, inspired by Friedrich Hölderlin's works.

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

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...

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...

The plot takes viewers to various places in Europe, including Prague, Erfurt, Frankfurt/Main and even Tenerife. And the title "The Blonde Geisha"...

Enemy secret services from the West had used modern technology for the "cold war", i.e. the confrontation with the Eastern Bloc, and developed a...

The 15th "Paul Hornick" Tank Regiment Cottbus, a unit of the "Heinrich Rau" Air Wing in Trollenhagen and the People's Navy are presented. In addition...

Anti-pacifist propaganda short produced by the FDJ section in Berlin.

On the eve of the German Peasants' War, the family of the young Christoph falls victim to an act of revenge by the knight Scharfenstein. The peasant...

After a wolf had killed a sheep in their village, 12-year old Roland and his friend Hugo keep track of the predator. Roland wants to build a trap to...

East German stop-motion animation version of the famous fairy tale, notable for its Beast appearing as an elephant.

A foray through the Sorbian customs of central Lusatia, made in the GDR. This classic work of documentary filmmaking covers the course of a year, in...

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...

A graphic fairy tale movie about the adventures of four friends - a donkey, a dog, a rooster and a cat - who deal with an evil master and robbers.

France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house,...

A tailor sends his sons away. They each learn a trade and receive a special gift from their teacher.

Ernst is a student in Hamburg around 1900 and leads a life like many other young people. In his free time, he roams the colorful metropolis with his...

The East German Navy's newest submarine hunter is presented. Also, a historical excursus about older anti-submarine ships and the hunt for enemy...

This documentary is about the crimes of the former Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War, Dr. Theodor Oberländer,...