German Democratic Republic Movies

Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that had called itself "the better Germany" for 40...

Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an...

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during...

The young Russian Leonid Zaharov tries to flee to the West via the GDR at the end of the 1980s. When he is bounced and there is no way forward, he...

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a...

In the summer of 1985, an American movie also ignites young people in the GDR: "Beatstreet" ensures full cinemas and subsequently a new phenomenon in...

The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

Ina, just released from prison, returns to the place of her childhood in search of life and meets the occasional desperado Domühl in her...

East Germany, 1986: Petra and Conni, two female workers at the ORWO film factory, secretly shoot lesbian sex films and thus come under the...

Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the...

Marcel Schlurfke is not exactly the heartthrob that friends Elke and Gitte are looking for. So they think about how to get rid of this annoying...

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their...

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a...

The controversial Enhanced Games challenge the foundations of modern sport by allowing athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs in pursuit of...

Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin.This film tells this 21-year-old’s story and describes the radical right-wing milieu in...