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- DirectorGottfried KolditzStarsPiotr PawlowskiEvgeniy ZharikovGojko MiticIn the middle of the 21th century, a spaceship loses its bearings, and the commander of another space crew, seemingly on a routine check flight, decides to investigate.
- DirectorHerrmann ZschocheStarsCox HabbemaIvan AndonovRolf HoppeEight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days. And the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent. The space council is faced with a mystery and the scientist in charge, Maria Scholl, sees no other solution than ordering a total flight stop to this mysterious sector of space. Her colleague, Prof. Tal seems to be suspicious since he knows things before they are even released. A forbidden look into his personal file brings to light that Tal was part of the Eolomea project that never found approval of the commission in charge.
- DirectorWerner W. WallrothStarsManfred KrugJutta KlöppelRegina BeyerThis story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely based on a true story. After the war, Florian's reimbursement is challenged, and he must also pay taxes on his destroyed mill. He resists the tax collectors and takes off to Vienna, where he intends to defend his rights. On the way, he rescues the Duchess of Guastalla from assault. She also wants to go to Vienna, as His Majesty Franz II is trying to contest an heir in her favor. With cunning, luck, and dagger, Florian fights his way through a slew of nobility and their secret police. In the end, he acquires multiple titles, and the Duchess acquires him.
- DirectorHorst BonnetStarsDorit GäblerRolf HoppeKurt MarschnerOrpheus in the underworld.
- DirectorKonrad WolfStarsDonatas BanionisOlivera KatarinaFred DürenAs a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya - played by the great Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis (The Red Tent, Solaris) - has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma. Based on Lion Feuchtwanger's novel, Goya is one of ten East German films originally shot in 70mm. This release is the director's cut and shows the influence of great filmmakers from Buñuel and Saura, to Eisenstein. Goya was nominated for the Golden Prize at the 1971 Moscow International Film Festival.
- DirectorHorst E. BrandtStarsHorst DrindaIrma MünchHorst SchulzeEast German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsSylvester GrothFred DürenMatthias GüntherTeenage German soldier is falsely accused of being a war criminal and arrested in Poland of 1945.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsVlastimil BrodskýErwin GeschonneckHenry HübchenA Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.
- DirectorRichard GroschoppStarsGojko MiticRolf RömerHelmut SchreiberChingachgook is about to marry the daughter of the Delaware chief, when the Hurons kidnap her. Chingachgook and his friend Deerslayer try to rescue her though white scalp hunters interfere until the tribes unite against the palefaces.
- DirectorEgon GüntherStarsJutta HoffmannBarbara DittusRolf LudwigA disillusioned single mother decides to give love one last chance.
- DirectorGünter ReischLucia OchrimenkoStarsGottfried RichterMikhail UlyanovHelmut HabelA young Communist is entrusted with an important secret mission to the leader of the new Bolshevik Revolution in Moscow in 1919.
- StarsWolfgang GreeseAlfred StruweWalter NiklausThe adventures of an East German secret agent.
- DirectorGünter ReischGünther RückerStarsJutta WachowiakRegimantas AdomaitisSlávka BudínováThe wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to 10 years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancé enables her to survive the tribulations of her time in prison, where she is one of few political prisoners.
- StarsHorst DrindaJürgen ZartmannGünter NaumannThe nine episodes of 'Zur See' illuminate everyday life between sea and shore on board the m/v "Fichte", sailing under the flag of DSR, East Germany's merchant shipping company. Based on real events, interpersonal problems within the crew are discussed as well as decisions and manoeuvres in everyday working life on the high seas.
- DirectorHerrmann ZschocheStarsUlrich MüheJenny GröllmannSwetlana SchönfeldA tragic love affair ensues between German poet Friedrich Hölderlin and banker's wife Susette Gontard.
- DirectorEgon GüntherStarsJutta HoffmannHeidemarie WenzelInge KellerThe year 1914 is not a good time for the love between the young banker's daughter Leonore Wahl and the destitute philosopher and budding writer Werner Bertin.
- DirectorKurt MaetzigStarsReimar J. BaurMiguel BenavidesRoberto BlancoCodeword: Prelude. Daniela - a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US - believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is in progress. Under the command of a US officer.
- DirectorKurt MaetzigStarsPaul BildtFritz TillmannWilly A. KleinauBased on the 1947 book "I.G. Farben", by American author Richard Sasuly, and records from the Nuremberg Trial of the chemical giant I.G. Farben, Council of the Gods is a story about the collaboration between international corporations and German scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. Featuring music by Hanns Eisler, electronic sound by Oskar Sala (Hitchcocks's "The Birds") and a script by Friedrich Wolf, the film is powerful in its depiction of the moral dilemmas and lessons of the war, as well as of Cold War propaganda. Chemist Dr. Hans Scholz lives through a tortuous political transformation and maturation process. Finally, he becomes wrapped up in his political neutrality and closes his eyes to the fact that poison is being produced in his factory. Standing before the judges at the Nuremberg trials he has to face the fact that he was partly responsible for the deaths of millions in the gas chambers of the extermination camps.
- DirectorEgon GüntherStarsRolf LudwigAndreas KadenKatharina LindIn August 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the seventeen year-old son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will not take part in this war. This resolution signifies a turning point in his life; a farewell to his class and his family. His notions of "transformation" are still nebulous, but are nevertheless linked with a sensible life in a just society. The resolution does not come spontaneously: since he was a child, Gastl, the son of a senior public prosecutor, has rebelled against the decadence and mere appearance of morality in his parent's household. In relating to his schoolmates Feck and Freyschlag, he was constantly torn between admiring their courage and abhorring their evil pranks. He thinks about his friendship with Löwenstein, who is a Jew, and Hartinger, the boy from the working class, and about his tragically ending love for the prostitute Fanny.
- DirectorRainer SimonStarsJoachim LätschPeter ZimmermannKathrin WaliguraKarl and Richard, two German soldiers captured by the Russians in World War I, become very close friends-so close that Richard shares intimate stories about his wife, Anna. Through these stories, Karl falls in love with her in his thoughts. When Karl escapes and goes to Richard's home, Anna knows he is not her husband. But although she tries to resist Karl's love, she feels a growing response to him. Then, one day, Richard returns... This beautifully shot work was the only East German film ever to win the Golden Bear at the West German Berlin International Film Festival. Shortly after this success, however, the film's distribution was suspended due to problems with the literary rights. After over 20 years, the film is now finally available again.
- DirectorEgon GüntherStarsKlaus PiontekBenjamin BessonMilan Neela
- DirectorGünter ReischStarsHorst SchulzeLyudmila KasyanovaRita KripsThe biography of the German socialistic politician Karl Liebknecht and his fight against World War I.
- DirectorKurt MaetzigStarsGünther SimonHans-Peter MinettiErich FranzThis historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel. Young Thälmann, a soldier against his will, would like to join the expanding conflict on the side of his comrades in Hamburg. As the revolution becomes threatened by the betrayal of the right-wing Social Democrats and the splintering of the working class, he nevertheless tries unremittingly to unite the workers. The reactionaries grow ever stronger and the neediness of ordinary people multiplies. In this dire situation, the Hamburg police commissioner would like to block the unloading of a ship full of provisions that were sent from Petrograd as a message of solidarity. But Thälmann prevails in unloading it. The high point and conclusion of the first part of the Thälmann films is established at the Hamburg Uprising in October 1923.
- DirectorKurt MaetzigStarsRaimund SchelcherErika DunkelmannKarla RunkehlLifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the count gets divided amongst the farmers, Anton receives a piece and hopes to be able to work freely. But an old debt and intrigue keep Anton and his family from finding peace. The farmers of the village begin to discover their own power when Annegret, Anton's daughter, leaves. Is a new beginning possible for Anton? This film paints an impressive panorama of the development of a minor village in Mecklenburg from the end of the war to the uprising of 17 June 1953.
- DirectorKurt MaetzigStarsErwin GeschonneckMarga LegalHelmut SchellhardtLiberation of Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog.
- DirectorKonrad WolfStarsWolfgang HeinzUrsula BurgHilmar ThateProfessor Hans Mamlock is the distinguished chief of surgery in a university hospital. The year is 1933, and although the Professor is Jewish, he remains unconcerned with politics and the growing Nazi threat. Mamlock identifies strongly as a German, and he believes his culture to be simply incapable of the common barbarism associated with the Nazi party. Accordingly, he shows little understanding for people with strong or unpopular political views, such as Walter, a patient, and Rolf, his own son. Indeed, when Rolf joins the communists in resisting the Nazis, Mamlock throws him out of his house. As the persecution of Jews intensifies during the 1930s, Mamlock's own daughter is targeted for anti-Semitic attacks at her school. Professor Mamlock, however, refuses to believe her, and at work he disregards the anti-Semitism of his colleague, Dr. Hellpach. By 1938, however, anti-Jewish racial laws demand Mamlock's removal from office. He is physically marched from the hospital by Nazi guards, leaving him shocked to realize that his German citizenship has been revoked. Professor Mamlock's devastation drives him to desperate measures.
- DirectorKonrad WolfStarsPeter PragerUwe ZerbeEberhard KirchbergFour young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and Russians, and are difficult to live up to when they are sent behind German lines.
- StarsUlrich TheinFranziska TroegnerRosemarie BärholdSophisticated German miniseries on the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), one of the greatest musicians and composers of all time.
- DirectorMartin HellbergStarsWolf KaiserOtto MelliesMarion van de KampFerdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter; Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. When they fall in love, their fathers urge them to end their relationship.
- DirectorKonrad PetzoldStarsGojko MiticHorst SchulzeIurie DarieFlorida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being moved to reservations. Having retreated to Florida, they live a simple horticultural life. But white plantation owners, angry at the increasing numbers of black slaves fleeing to Seminole protection, want to take their land. Plantation owner Raynes, in particular, has convinced the military to wipe out the Seminoles. His rival Moore, a sawmill owner from the North who has a Seminole wife, is against slavery and considers it unprofitable. Chief Osceola sees the coming danger; he tries to avoid provoking the whites, but cannot prevent the war that breaks out in 1835. Osceola was primarily filmed in Cuba and Bulgaria.
- DirectorRavjagiin DorjpalamGottfried KolditzStarsDshambaagijn LubsandshamdzTsegmid TsagaanBatsuchijn ZorigBased on a Mongolian folktale, this film features the colorful traditions and magical landscape of that part of the world.
- DirectorMartin WalzStarsRudolf HrusínskýBeatrice ManowskiThomas WolffThe bet.
- DirectorSergiu NicolaescuStarsGheorghe CozoriciSergiu NicolaescuMircea AlbulescuIn 1918 a defeated Austro-Hungarian Baron Colonel Von Görtz returns home to Transylvania which has just been lost to Romania. A vengeful Von Görtz punishes the nearby villagers but Romanian Major Tudor Andrei aids them.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsJohn MillsEric PortmanChristopher RhodesAllied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".
- DirectorSergiu NicolaescuStarsAmza PelleaIon BesoiuIlarion CiobanuIt's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "romanian dream".
- DirectorYuriy OzerovStarsNikolay OlyalinLarisa GolubkinaBoris SeidenbergThe "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsUlrich MüheUlrich TukurKaoru KobayashiIn 1945 an advanced type of German U-boat loaded with atomic technology en route for Japan and escorted by Japanese naval officers receives news that Germany has capitulated.
- StarsHorst SchulzeAngelika WallerEzard HaußmannA family history set against the historical backdrop of 1913. The individual fates of the family of a Prague newspaper publisher move in the maelstrom of contemporary events.
- DirectorErich EngelStarsHans Christian BlechErnst WaldowPaul BildtThis early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-like overtones also represents an East German reflection on Nazism. Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer living in Germany, is falsely accused of killing his booker. Even when the real killer's identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum's innocence. The film explores German reaction to the trial and investigates the relationship between the legal system, antisemitism, and fascism, providing insight into the historical context that allowed Nazism to flourish.
- StarsStefan GetsovBohus PastorekHorst PreuskerTens of images of historical characters are shown. People who have taken part in fighting against Nazi Germany as well as the activity of the leaders of the communist parties of the USSR, Rumania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany during the World War II.
- StarsHelmut HellstorffVyacheslav TikhonovArtyom KarapetyanThe battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsNikolay YeryomenkoTamara MakarovaZhanna BolotovaA man returning to his family in the USSR of the 1960s revisits his past in flashbacks: his time with the Germans during WWII and after,and his time in Argentina.
- StarsStanislav LyubshinAlla DemidovaValentina TitovaThe title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD. The story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II.
- DirectorYuriy OzerovStarsNikolay OlyalinLarisa GolubkinaBoris SeidenbergA five part WW2 epic drama that gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945.Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.The first part deals with the 1943 great tank Battle of Kursk.The second part details the September 1943 Lower Dnieper Offensive.The third part depicts the various stages of Operation Bagration during the summer of 1944.The fourth installment of the epic deals with the January 1945 Vistula-Oder Offensive and the final segment climaxes in the April-May 1945 Battle of Berlin.
- DirectorYuriy OzerovStarsNikolay OlyalinLarisa GolubkinaPaul BerndtStalin orders to hasten the Vistula-Oder offensive in order to relieve the Allies. Karl Wolff is sent to negotiate with the Americans. Zhukov rejects Stavka's order to take Berlin, the Soviets and the Poles storm the Tiergarten.
- DirectorYuriy OzerovStarsMikhail NozhkinNikolay OlyalinMikhail UlyanovThis five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.
- DirectorRene RömerStarsCarsten LinkeSigmund JähnEberhard KöllnerEvery child knew his name in East Germany, many wanted to be just like him. Schools and streets were named after this national hero. In the Socialist Eastern Bloc dictatorship of the GDR, in which one could only dream of traveling far away, he was by far the most widely traveled citizen. Today, the first German in space has a little bit fallen into oblivion. Born in 1937 before World War II and raised as a citizen of the German Democratic Republic, the distinguished fighter pilot and Major General of the People's Army was chosen to participate in the Soviet Interkosmos program and to fly into space in 1978 with a Soyuz rocket. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, this documentary traces the cosmonaut's most important stages of life with a wealth of archive material.
- StarsVolker BruchTom SchillingKatharina SchüttlerFive friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
- DirectorHans-Jürgen Syberberg
- DirectorHans-Jürgen SyberbergStarsEdith CleverIn her Berlin apartment, where the S-Bahn and long-distance trains pass by, the actress Edith Clever reads Molly Bloom's monologue from James Joyce's "Ulysses".
- StarsThomas OhrnerHorst FrankRichard LauffenThe series, based on the novel by German author James Krüss, tells the story of Timm, the boy who traded in his infectious laugh for the ability to win any bet. The man who did the devilish deal with Timm is wealthy businessman Baron de Lefouet, who is even more successful in business now that he has Timm's engaging laugh to win him friends. Timm, on the other hand, soon realizes that life is not the same without the ability to laugh, and he sets out to find the evil Baron and try to regain the ability to laugh.
- CreatorNoah HawleyStarsBilly Bob ThorntonMartin FreemanAllison TolmanVarious chronicles of deception, intrigue, and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. All of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsJürgen HentschUdo SamelRolf Hoppe
- StarsFrank-Otto SchenkJaecki SchwarzVolkmar Kleinert6 May 1945: The four deserters Schilling, Gail, Wehrmann and Schwalenberg are picked up by Danish resistance fighters and handed over to their unit. Meanwhile, the signing of the partial surrender with the Americans also takes place. The British leave the German commanders in charge of maintaining order in the troops and in the POW camps. After the flag has been taken down and the unconditional total surrender has taken place, the four deserters are sentenced like their fellow sufferers from M612, three of them are shot, practically as the last official act of the high officers, who immediately afterwards offer their experience to the Western Allies. At the same time in Kurland, in the general chaos, Captain Lieutenant Klose organizes the escape of SS units.
- StarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric IdleA two-part Monty Python German television comedy special.
- StarsTom SchillingSofia HelinFriederike BechtLars is a "Romeo agent" from East Germany in the 1970s. His task is to go West, first to seduce and then to spy on Western women who worked in government or defense institutions.
- DirectorKonrad WolfStarsSonja SutterHorst DrindaHans-Peter MinettiA story about the rise of Nazism based on a novel by a German-Jewish author who managed to survive by fleeing to the USA. The movie focuses on working class Berliner Lissy Schroeder who marries clerk Alfred Frohmeyer believing he can provide her with a better life. In 1932, however, his Jewish boss fires him. So Alfred turns to the Nazis, quickly rising in the SA, and acquiring wealth along the way. Lissy, however, discovers there is, as always, a price. The Nazis shoot her brother, a former Communist. And her parents and friends shun her. What is she to do?
- DirectorRaymond RouleauStarsSimone SignoretYves MontandJean DebucourtSalem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. It will be the beginning of a series of witchcraft trials and a dark moment in American history.
- DirectorKurt MaetzigStarsRegimantas AdomaitisKarin SchröderKlaus-Peter ThieleRobert and Michael meet on their return from captivity. They discover that they are both married to the same woman: After Robert was pronounced dead, Michael married Anna. The decision about the future is left to chance.
- DirectorRoland GräfStarsJenny GröllmannErika PelikowskyArmin Mueller-StahlWhen Dr. Schmith's (Armin Mueller-Stahl) proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. He falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina (Jenny Gröllmann). Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly... As the topic of escaping to the West was taboo in the GDR, The Flight is an exception in East German film history. The film, which won the Grand Prix at the Karoly Vary International Film Festival in 1978, was the last one Armin Mueller-Stahl made at the East German DEFA studios. In 1980, only two years after the release of the film, he left East Germany for the West because of professional restrictions imposed upon him after he joined protests against the expatriation of the dissident singer/songwriter Wolf Biermann.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsPeter GyurovNevena KokanovaAsen KisimovThe action takes place in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna in years 1932 and 1933, a time when the great Bulgarian revolutionary and internationalist Georgi Dimitrov was actively involved in establishing a broad alliance of democratic forces against the emerging threat of war and fascism. His activities were dangerous, involving great risks. Naturally, the Nazis tried to curtail his work. He was accused of setting the Reichstag on fire and at the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933 Dimitrov dealt an enormous moral blow to fascism. The film reveals the spirit and the atmosphere at the beginning of the thirties (the film features documentary scenes) and carries a contemporary political message.
- DirectorLothar WarnekeStarsChristine SchornJörg GudzuhnMike GregorAfter a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. They meet each other later and resolve to enter into a strictly intellectual relationship. He is a widower with two sons, with the younger son just entering school. She is single and relatively satisfied in her relationship with a married colleague. Suddenly, Sibylle quits her job at the company's staff canteen and delves into her new self-appointed task with fiery fervor: to pep up Harald's family life, turning his house, garden, etc. inside out. Harald, a quiet man used to peace and his own habits, starts to flee from her on a daily basis. Without love, she figures, the relationship will not work out. But it does not take long for the pair to miss each other's presence.