Gisela May

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

A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against...

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in...

13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman....

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television...

The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).

Film by Frank Vogel.

Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. Péter leaves for home with his wife,...

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic...