Tag: east germany

The Silent Revolution

Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets...

Balloon

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR...

Karl Marx und seine Erben

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken...

Karl Marx City

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey...

Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie

A two-part television film by UFA Fernsehproduktion about Jutta Gallus,...

The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler

A missing person case involving a child in 1987 East...

Willkommen bei den Honeckers

Max Bretschneider pretends to be a communist in order to...

Sugar Sand

End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas...

Nazi-Karrieren in der DDR?

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it...

Als wir die Zukunft waren

Seven directors remember their childhood and youth; to the 50s...

As We Were Dreaming

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group...

Erich Mielke - Master of Fear

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the...

Verliebt, verlobt, verloren

In 1952, while the Korean War was still raging, the...

Das Romeo-Prinzip

Tom does not have it easy. At the student theater,...

1989, les trains de la liberté

Dragan Wende - West Berlin

Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and...

Fatherland

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann...

Kalter Krieg der Konzerte - Wie Bruce Springsteen den Osten rockte

Berlin, summer 1988: While Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd perform...

Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was...

Rapunzel, or The Magic of Tears

Adaptation of the classic fairytale. Rapunzel lives alone in the...

Robotron - High Tech made in GDR

In a world divided by the Iron Curtain, East Germany...

Belly and Soul

An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen...

whisper & SHOUT

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene...

November Days

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their...