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- A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
- The title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD. The story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II.
- After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
- The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.
- The 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.
- The "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.
- This five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.
- Peter Munk, a poor charcoal burner, lives with his mother in The Black Forest. Poverty prevents him from marrying Lisbeth, the girl he loves. When he comes across the Little Glass Man, the good spirit of the forest, the young man asks him for assistance. His wish is granted and he becomes rich. But the fool soon loses all his money after gambling at the inn. In desperation, he asks Dutch Michael, the evil spirit of the forest, to help him to become rich again. The mean giant agrees and gives Peter all the riches in the world, but on one condition: the young man will exchange his heart for a cold stone. He can now marry Lisbeth but can a heart of ice make you and the others happy...?
- The film is based on the biography of the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. She became an internationally regarded ballerina after her performances in 1909 with the Dyaghilev's Ballet in Paris and in London. Anna Pavlova eventually formed her own troupe. She made a successful world tour together with Viktor d'Andre, who was her husband and manager.
- After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless... Gerhard Lamprecht built his reputation during the 1920s and '30s with films like Emil and the Detectives (1931, script Billy Wilder) and socially-critical Berlin films based on the drawings of Heinrich Zille. In Somewhere in Berlin-his first postwar film, made just months after the cessation of hostilities-he portrays the people of the shattered city with precision and psychological realism.
- Stalin 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.
- A 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.
- Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
- In Nazi Germany actor Hans refuses to divorce his Jewish wife Elisabeth. He is threatened to be drafted and sent to the front while she will be deported to a concentration camp. Desperate, Hans decides that suicide is their only way out.
- 1951. Drama. Stars, Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Eva Bartok, and Gina Lollobrigida. When an Englishman leaves America to enlist in the RAF, his grueling combat experiences result in a loss of memory.
- World War II is over and Heinrich, a German young boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act according to the Communism in a small German village.
- The successful entertainment artist Ralf Keul must develop his land on the Baltic Sea or else ultimately give it up. Inexperienced yet courageous, he hurls himself into the undertaking, which spares him no unpleasantness. He battles over the transportation and procurement of materials, constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown, while his craftsmen offer little additional assistance. About halfway through the project he runs out of money and ends up selling his coin collection. Finally, after countless stresses, job-related irritations, and overlapping marital crises, the house is built. His wife and daughter are thrilled, and enthusiastic visitors show up in droves.
- Fresh from a prison term after an episode of adolescent hooliganism, Hoffi is looking for a fresh start. With his good-natured brother in tow, he goes in search of Urban, an older and wiser type who shared Hoffi's room during a brief hospital stay. They join a youthful work crew at an East German construction site, where Hoffi makes new friends and meets an enchanting young woman named Gila. Taking Hoffi at face value and in defiance of her parents, Gila decides to build a life with the young man once they return to Berlin-though he still has a lot to learn. Director Ingrid Reschke and screenwriter Ulrich Plenzdorf periodically flash back to Hoffi's past to give a more complete sense of who he is and who he's trying to be. His temper can get out of hand: we witness the original incident in a Berlin park, where he and a group of toughs jeer at an older man who asks them to turn down the music blasting from their radio. Hoffi grabs the man by the head and throws him to the ground. In another flashback, he tries the same maneuver when he gets frustrated with his roommate Urban, but Urban quickly puts Hoffi in his place. Another flashback depicts the East German council that tries Hoffi's case and sends him to jail for 18 months. Hoffi's mother pleads his case with emotion, and a woman from his neighborhood speaks up eloquently about how neglect leads to delinquency. She will later provide friendship and support to Hoffi and Gila. With the help also of his brother and his construction mates, Hoffie gradually gets his act together and develops into a tougher, more resilient young man worthy of Gila's love. In telling the young people's story, Do You Know Urban also provides a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in Berlin and East Germany circa 1970.
- Young hairdresser Gabi from the Baltic coast desperately wants to be a jockey. One day, she packs her bags, drives to Hoppegarten and is soundly rejected by the head coach. She doesn't want to give up, but to at least have a roof over her head, she rushes into a marriage with the seemingly nice Freddie. However, this marriage soon proves to be her second rejection. Freddie openly dislikes the fact that she wants to be a jockey. Her first ray of hope is that the stableman has a good heart and lets her train in secret. Slowly, Freddie begins to understand as well: he sells his motorcycle to sponsor her in the international beginner's race in Budapest. Naturally, she wins and her delayed wedding celebration takes place in Budapest.
- Severino returns to his tribe - the Manzeneros, who live on the edge of the Argentinian Andes - after being gone for 10 years. He has returned to take his younger brother back with him up north, but encounters a host of problems in his home village instead. His father Raymundo, who was on the trail of a gang of white bandits who were stealing cattle from both Indians and settlers, has been recently found dead. A sheep-ranching company turns out to be behind this criminal activity. The company wants to drive the Indians and settlers off the fertile land so that they can purchase it for nothing. Severino decides to remain in his home village to defend it from them, but also because he has fallen in love with Maruja, the granddaughter of the old chief Nicolas, who is filled with hatred against the white settlers. True to form, Nicolas calls for war against the settlers. Severino tries to mediate between the hostile parties. With his own savings, Severino buys back the land that once rightfully belonged to the Indians. In doing so, he not only wins over a number of supporters from his own tribe, but he is also able to unmask the bandits, who had been trying to stir up discord between Whites and Indians. The stubborn chief Nicolas, however, refuses to give up his war plans: in his eyes, Severino is a traitor deserving only death. Maruja now has to save Severino's life from his own tribe.
- Young Thomas skipped school and while walking the Berlin streets he notices a house afire and two small children were saved. It was determined to locate this "unknown" boy, but Thomas remained silent for fear of being exposed as a truant.
- Dark secrets from the Nazi era emerge in 1960's East Germany
- At age 12, Hannes and Carolin fall in love comparing this to a cloud. Unfortunately their parents have differing opinions of their relationship, which causes a breakup. But there are more 'fish in the sea,' as these two soon find out.
- Tens 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.
- A little boy wishes to be taller in order to be noticed by the others. Then he comes across a magical flute.
- Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers. Manne, the father of her child, wanted to escape from the GDR and is in prison. After he is released, Manne wants to live again with Suse and their child together. But she rejects him as well as another worshiper. Suse is more interested in the Soviet engineer Boris, but apparently not for her, since he can never remember her at their chance encounters. But a much bigger problem - and a difficult one - is Suse, when she is offered to go to the Soviet Union for six months.
- 17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.
- 1864, Sand Creek, Co. When an army detail massacres men, women and children of a Cheyenne village a disgusted soldier called Harmonica deserts his post, befriends and lives with the Cheyenne, joining their fight as the army raids continue.
- Autumn 1847: A couple, unmarried but awaiting a child is trying to survive the East German social stigma. Church and government will play their roles to make this movie a feast for the eyes and senses.
- Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth birthday because his father has told him the story of Icarus, and promised to take him on a sightseeing flight. When Matthias' father doesn't come home, he is devastated. He runs throughout the city, talks to his friend about the relationships of adults, looks for his father at his desk, and gets himself into conflict with the police. As he sits alone on the roof of a house, he comes to the conclusion that Icarus didn't plummet to the earth because he didn't listen to his father, but rather because his father had forgotten him.
- "The condemned Village". After years in Soviet Captivity, farmer Heinz Weizmann returns to his village in West Germany. His joy of returning home is clouded by news the U.S. occupation forces intend to build an airfield on village lands. The villagers are expected to just move away. Led by Heinz they protest. He is arrested and imprisoned but eventually support from all of West Germany prevents the airfield from being built, and the village and their way of life is saved.
- Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated, idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missing and he invites his friend Otto to come and stay. Meanwhile, Charlotte decides that her foster daughter Ottilie should come live with them. Complex and passionate relationships begin among the four people. Based on Goethe's novel of the same title.
- A young woman, from a progressive middle-class family, travels to Shanghai with her husband Rolf in the mid-1930s. Although she has a child, she is not ready to withdraw into private life.
- Adaptation of Grimm's fairy tale "Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren"
- Shortly after Fred Stein starts with his truck for a several days long urgent trip from Hungary to Bulgaria, his partner gets injured in an accident and has to stay in hospital. Fred is very unlucky with the only available replacement... because she's a woman. He fears she'll disturb his habit to visit a girlfriend at each stop. And right, the original, silent girl soon gets onto his nerves. Then Fred has to make another new experience... falling in love.
- The twelve-year old Susanne is a dreamer and feels misunderstood by her classmates. She pours out her heart to an old lock keeper, who understands her well. He gives her a ring, which has the ability to help its owner. Susanne believes greatly in its magic power. Some wishes actually come true but others fail.
- Helmut Kamp, no longer a young man in his forties, is an experienced and respected foundation builder. He receives an offer to participate in the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Baltic jointly with the USSR. But he has a house in Thuringia, two adult daughters, and in addition his wife Elfrida is expecting a child. And here he is faced with woeful problems - his wife tragically dies, he remains with the baby in his arms, relations with his youngest daughter are not going well.
- The story of tensions in a factory in communist east Germany and their society more generally - mostly through the adventures of two provocative factory workers.
- A young man is shot in South America. A witness, Maria, tells her friend, the journalist Oswaldo, and he picks up the case. On the trail of the killer, the police arrive at a German farm, but they are not allowed to enter there.
- Kai, a young boy, living in 1923 Berlin tries to convince an American businessman that he can market his chewing gum better than anyone else in town.
- On 20 April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany, and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague, K.H. Frank, German secretary of state and chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the citizens of Prague do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of the 4th of May, people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. The next day, the uprising begins.