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- The Sandman's everyday life, travels and fantastic adventures. The character often showcased socialist technological achievements, such as the use of awe-inspiring vehicles like futuristic cars and flying devices.
- Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.
- An interview with former Nazi and mercenary Siegfried Müller about his life and war campaigns.
- A documentary about the life and work of Jannis Ritsos (1909-1990), one of the most important Greek poets.
- A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are news reporters and tourists from all over the world taking pictures, children selling pieces of the wall to passers-by, and people celebrating New Year's Eve, on the other we see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks on their faces.
- A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary." - Elke Schieber, film historian
- A documentary of the Young Pioneers in the 1950's. Including segments: Young Pioneers build a glider at a summer camp on the Baltic; a trip on the sailboat school Wilhelm Pieck; a cross-country game in the mountains; an expedition of the Havel; and a visit to the Thomas Muentzer Stadt Muehlhausen. The highpoint is the Young Pioneer Convention in Dresden. The song written for this film, Die Heimat hat sich schoen gemacht, und Tau blitzt ihr im Haar (Home has made itself beautiful, and dew glistens in her hair) became an East German folk song.
- Friendship, fun and contemplation characterize the lives of a group of twenty-year-olds who spend their summer vacation in Prerow on the Baltic Sea. In brief interviews, they discuss their past achievements, future plans, dreams and perspectives. The conflict between the impending, serious future and their carefree, colorful lives comes to a head in this film, which reflects the attitude towards life in the 1960's, complete with games, parties, and guitar-playing on the beach.
- At the first German meeting, which took place in Berlin in 1950, domestic and foreign delegations expressed their desire for global peace. Particular emphasis was placed on the participation of a West German delegation, who, alongside young people from the GDR, demonstrated their desire for a unified Germany, among other things.
- Orpheus in the underworld.
- The tragic love story between 17 year-old Gerat Lauter, who is in search of the truth, and his much older teacher Claudia, as it becomes a criminal case with state complicity in the chaotic GDR autumn of 1989.
- Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie features young people using music to express their take on life, opposition to their parents' generation and opinions on the social and political climate in East Germany. It includes clips from concerts and interviews with fans and members of various bands, such as Feeling B's Christian Lorenz and Paul Landers, now members of Rammstein. This documentary, shot in 35mm, played to over one million viewers in sold-out theaters in East Germany. Audiences were drawn not only to see their favorite bands on the screen; they were also surprised that this film made it past the censors.
- Two soldiers in the Second World War stare out at us from a photo: one of them is crying in despair, the other is standing proud and tall and wearing a medal. They are boys - child soldiers - and their photos appeared all over the world as synonyms for Hitler's "last reserves." This film tells the story of what happened to these fifteen-year-old, one from the East and one from the West, after they survived the war.
- This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names- there are no interviews. The women are presented simply as workers: cooking, cleaning, hauling, and serving dishes amid clanking pots and hot steam.
- After a few years of separation a young Russian girl Olga comes to New York to reunite with her boyfriend Sasha who defected from his ballroom dance team at the International competition.
- This film documents the well-known story of Anne Frank, whose family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Eventually caught, Frank was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she later died. The film goes on to explore the concentration camp in detail- the procedures and methods of the camp's commanding officers, and the atrocities the Nazis committed. Shockingly, many of the officers went on to retain their freedom, and lead relatively normal lives, often receiving support from the German government.
- "Ofenbauer" is a report on the displacement of a blast furnace, a daunting task during which the workers as well the engineers undergo tremendous physical and psychic tension. But in the end the mission is accomplished thanks to the hard work and dedication of all concerned.
- A film on the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students. Young people from 140 countries were guests in Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic Republic, in 1973.
- A consciously modern depiction of working women in East Germany - labourers and managers in a garment factory talk about relationships and family planning, raising children and career qualifications, women's rights and equality in the socialist (meritocratic) society. In conversations with a doctor, the women also have a chance to voice their personal concerns, as well as their feelings about the birth control pill, a subject that caused a stir at the time.
- A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours of few shunters at the shunting-station Dresden-Friedrichstadt, which was the largest such station in all of the former German Democratic Republic. They work day and night, amidst snow and fog at the railway tracks, speaking only as much as necessary.
- Several centuries-old villages south of Leipzig are being razed to the ground for the sake of open-pit coal mines. The director follows the project for over 3 years as lives are uprooted and landscapes are destroyed.
- Forensics on Con Son, the island that was hell. Flew in again with the first foreign film group Le Quang Vinh. In August 1961 he, revolutionary student leader, was arrested in Saigon. A show trial and the following year the death sentence. Worldwide protest reached revision: "Life imprisonment", on Con Son also Con Dao: the mountain island. Outgrowth of colonial history another name: Poulo Condor, used in the same breath as: Devil's Island. And recently become sadly famous like Buchenwald: the island of the tiger cages. But also such a keyword: University of Ho Chi Minh. And now only the mountain island again, after 113 years, In the summer of 1975, an unforeseeable area of cells, bunkers, crypts under bars is in front of the camera eye. Often on the walls angry portents of the imminent victory. Chains thrown in heaps, stands, shackles. In the district of the commanders - they came up with the number 53 - enigmatic legacies. The first film in the new Vietnam cycle; an experience report and historical evidence, at a shameful site of imperialism.
- In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people's waste items. The four boys call themselves "Bulk Rubbish" and they drum out their resentment, having grown up on the new housing estates of East Berlin. A straight-up picture of the GDR youth is presented here, which in no way conforms to the official image. The film crew concentrates on the observation of the boy Enrico and his mother Erika: when the mother marries in the West, her son decides to stay in East Berlin, bidding her farewell at the border-crossing. Only shortly after, the tables are turned again: as the events in Berlin leading up to the fall of the Wall are practically captured live from the film crew, Enrico insists on maintaining his cultural identity, even after the fall of the Wall. The "Bulk Rubbish" musicians want to remain citizens of their own state and perceive the looming reunification with scepticism
- Short satirizing the publishing bureaucracy in the DDR. A writer's proposal for a love story keeps getting rejected, even after he adds industrial friendly details such as smoking chimneys and steel production to please the two editors.
- This black and white documentary reports about the composition of the highest people's representative body, the People's Chamber of the GDR. The various educational options are also presented to help you achieve your career goals. Based on 4 people, the community representative and member of the DBD Bernhard Lebelt from the Jessen district, the chief architect Iris Grund from Neubrandenburg, the head of government of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district Heinz Arnold and the minister for electronics and electrical engineering Otfried Steger, their tasks and goals are explained shown. Ultimately, there is also a report on the long-desired and now completed diplomatic recognition of the GDR by some states.
- A compilation of 9 classic DEFA documentaries originally released between 1951 and 1989 about the most wonderful time of the year - vacation.
- Depicts the Bulgarian born filmmaker Slatan Dudow's (1903-1963) life and work in exile, painting a detailed picture of the Marxist artist. It includes many clips from Dudow's early films, including Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World (1932), which was banned by the Nazis.