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Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can...

This black-and-white documentary reports on a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in East Berlin from March 24 to 29,...

Multilayered documentary about the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR: Half a hundred buildings, a thousand rooms, bunkers,...

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.

The documentary chronicles the preparations in the GDR and West Germany for the Second German Gymnastics and Sports Festival in Leipzig. It describes...

A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973. Blending reportage with...

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to make black painted clay heads of Karl Marx...

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

In this film about apprentices of the Rewatex laundry, Böttcher once again turns to the focal concern of almost all his films the attempt to...

A life story from a bygone era. In a retirement home, the 90-year-old Hermann Reußner tells his story. He was born in 1891 in Dessau, back when...

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

The film uses documentary-style scenes, interviews and animated schematic drawings to expose the problems of the menopause as a natural stage of a...

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

The “Raging Reporter” Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) was one of the most significant journalists of the 1920s and 30s. He wrote from a...

Actor Manfred Krug reports on winter sports in the GDR. Numerous topics are covered in short segments: promoting young talent in winter sports,...

How the class community is formed. The children's environment and the experiences and discoveries that the school gives them. They are reflected in...

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...