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- DirectorHerrmann ZschocheStarsBarbara SommerRolf LukoschekHenry SchroederFrank, a tenth grade student, falls in love with his classmate Regine. His father is a well-connected plant manager in the GDR; Regine's mother is a single parent with four children. Regine wants to become a kindergarten teacher, but her grades are poor and she is not allowed to apply for technical college. Frank champions her and seeks an open discussion about these rigid regulations. But his criticism is nipped in the bud.
- DirectorSiegfried KühnStarsKatrin SassGudrun RitterVolker RanischMaria tells her former colleague, Hanna, that she has undergone a cancer operation but is now cured. Soon after, she suffers a relapse. The doctors believe that she should be told the truth about her condition, and Hanna is willing to do so. For Maria, it is the beginning of several long, agonizing weeks until she is ready to accept that she has only a very small amount of time left to live. In the meantime, Hanna has to decide how she can help her friend die; an almost unbearable decision, but once made she carries it out to the last consequence.
- DirectorRainer BehrendStarsArianne BorbachHans-Uwe BauerNico WohllebeClaudia and Georg Rattey have everything they might wish for. But their contentedness does not turn into happiness but into an inner void, when they discover a ten-year old burglar in their half-finished vacation home.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlastimil BrodskýVáclav NeckárSet in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
- DirectorGunther ScholzStarsPeter BausePaul BerndtBärbel BolleThueringen, 804 A.D. An orphan boy named Bengel lives in an abbey, teased by the nuns because of his ugliness. He nurtures the Black Knight back to health, though he's thought to have the Plague, so everyone else shuns him. The Knight tells Bengel about the missing Bogumil, son of Slav king Slavomir, who on Charlemagne's order was to marry the Thueringian Margrave's daughter Reglindis. He also asks Bengel about his ancestry. Bengel now believes that he is Bogumil. He goes to the castle, where he meets a beautiful girl who thinks he's just as handsome. It is Reglindis, and she is blind. She finds his inner beauty and devotes herself to him, but her father wants to get rid of him. Bengel barely escapes death twice, the Black Knight reveals his identity with a flourish to Bogumil, and everyone lives happily ever after.
- DirectorGünter MeyerStarsTobias GottschlichAnne SzarvasyUlrike Hanke-HänschEight year old Paul and his mother just moved to a skyscraper. After an embarrassing encounter with Anna, Paul meets her in the elevator. Anna makes fun of him and they start to quarrel. They can't arrange about going up or down. The elevator suddenly drops and carries them deep down into the realms of a wicked witch. The witch is out for their youth, since her own time is running out. Their only chance against her is for once to help together. They meet a blind horse, a clock without clock hand and a knight without courage helping them on their journey.
- DirectorRoland GräfStarsMichael GwisdekCorinna HarfouchHermann BeyerWinter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes, he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the piano. The film shows what "ordinary socialism" was like, letting the audience feel the threat under which the people in the GDR had to live over many years.
- DirectorGunter FriedrichStarsRené Tony SpenglerAntje SalzGünter SchubertAfter the Nazis take over political power in Germany 1933 the father of Rosi and Hansi, a member of the communist party, must hide from police. One thing he left behind is a watch which might contain a message.
- DirectorJürgen BrauerStarsDagmar ManzelFrank StierenWinfried GlatzederThe 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.
- DirectorEvelyn SchmidtStarsRita FeldmeierPeter PragerHeidemarie SchneiderThe cleaning lady Marie-Luise, a single mother of three children and already in her thirties, decides to end her life as a gray mouse. She buys a large, sophisticated hat. With a hat, the children and a rickety Wartburg, she sets out on a journey to the FDGB holiday home, where - due to a mistake - she gets a luxury apartment. In the crowded elevator of the holiday home, she and her hat become a nuisance for the elevator operator Hans. He insults her. And she falls in love with this conceited guy of all people.
- DirectorAndré MelançonStarsDenis BouchardRaymond LegaultPipo GagnonOn Christmas eve a journalist witnesses a theft in a mall and then tracks one of the thieves to later be taken as his hostage in the radio station he works for.
- DirectorRoland OehmeStarsMichèle MarianAngelika WallerLina WendelHe could have had women, he could have climbed the ladder of his accountancy career, and he could have stood on the podium next to the highest in the land. If only he had wanted to! But Farssmann, shaken by divorce and unwilling to better himself, wants to remain what he is: an ordinary bookkeeper like you and me. And so the dollar deal with Mr. Osbar from Utah (USA) is not the first time he comes into conflict with the very palpable unreality of a country called the German Democratic Republic.
- DirectorDusan TrancíkStarsMiro NogaAmanda SandrelliMónica Molina
- DirectorEgon GüntherStarsRolf LudwigFranziska HeroldEvelin DahmA German stage actor's cult following and popularity after protesting the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
- DirectorJeanine MeerapfelStarsLiv UllmannCipe LincovskyFederico LuppiMaría and Pancho are a happily married couple in a quiet, working-class suburb south of Buenos Aires, circa 1978. They share the grief over the disappearance of their eldest son Carlos.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsChristiane HeinrichNikolaus GröbeMichael GwisdekTwo people love each other when they know they should not. Their parents' and friends' pleas, their social backgrounds and reputation, their careers; everything is used to make them give each other up. Flattery, lies and threats finally drive Frank to despair and Karin to treason. But it is not due to their parents' hatred, nor to any greed for inherited wealth. Rather, the mere conjecture expressed by the authorities is enough to set off a merciless mechanism...
- DirectorKarl-Heinz LotzStarsMaria FerrensPeter RaaschRolf SchillTo gain lands from the prince of Saxony, a group of orphans seeks Mozart, in order to obtain the very rare score of one of his compositions.
- DirectorVadim GlownaStarsElsa Grube-DeisterRolf ZacherMuriel BaumeisterGermany shortly after its reunification: Western capitalism seeks its profit in former East Germany the one way or another. There is Ada Fenske on the island of Ruegen. She seems to be just an lovely old grandma. Suddenly everybody seems to be interested in buying her little house. There is M.A.D. agent Zwirner who has official order to buy it, but it is not as easy as he thought. Ada Fenske quickly realizes the odds and ends of the new system.
- DirectorZdenek SirovýStarsJirí StrachMilan SandhausJirí Schmitzer
- DirectorHeiner CarowStarsAngelica DomröseGottfried JohnJörg GudzuhnIt is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) knows about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. Critics note that in this film, director Heiner Carow revisits the themes of his 1972 smash hit, The Legend of Paul and Paula, which became a cult film throughout Germany.
- DirectorHelmut DziubaStarsKristin SchefferRené GußJulia BrendlerFall 1989: Jan is almost 16. Caught while trying to escape to West Germany, he is transferred from prison to a juvenile detention center. Here, he meets Jana ... and what starts as a bet, becomes true love. When Jana gets pregnant, the situation spirals out of control. In the summer of 1990, Jana and Jan flee into the unknown, insecure future of a new Germany. In this film, the director, internationally known for his critical films about children and young people, cast non-professional actors - some from juvenile detention centers - in the leading roles.
- DirectorKazuo KurokiMasahiro MakinoStarsYoshio HaradaKanako HiguchiRenji IshibashiA group of masterless samurai living in Edo's red light district must fend off a militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.
- DirectorRicky TognazziStarsClaudio AmendolaRicky MemphisGianmarco TognazziThe "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, the former leader of the group, has been dismissed from jail a few days before.
- DirectorRoland GräfStarsCorinna HarfouchKurt BöweUwe KockischNothing is known about the whereabouts of the legendary amber room. But when Lisa finds clues to the possible whereabouts in her father's estate, she goes in search of the treasure.
- DirectorGernot KrääStarsLeni TanzerFabian KüblerDavid CesmeciSince her parents death, hobby-detective Trudi lives with her young aunt Julia. When a nearby Turkish restaurant is smashed one night, everybody assumes by default an act of racism. Trudi however did notice a strange guest named Mangold there the day before. Also the caretaker seems very keen on getting the restaurant out of the building. The police and host Kemal don't seem particularly interested in investigating the event, so Trudi starts her own investigations in the style of Sherlock Holmes, with the help of her friend Tom and runaway Rollo.
- DirectorManfred DurniokYumen HeMinjin ZhuangStarsTobias MeisterJulia BiedermannHeinz Theo BrandingThe lying and cunning fox Reineke is sued by the court after many charges. But again Reineke manages to escape the situation, leaving the Nobel King without patience.
- DirectorPetras AbukiavicusToshio GotôSergey VronskiyStarsAndrei BoltnevAleksandr FilippenkoOlegar FedoroA profound friendship develops in Siberia between a Japanese hunter and a wolf, Buran, despite the hostile environment.
- DirectorJürgen BrauerGreti KläyStarsLea HürlimannWanda HürlimannIlona Schulz"How nice it would be to have a sister", Anna often thinks... At 9 years old, little Anna with an overflowing imagination spends her afternoons off in an imaginary world that allows her to overcome the difficulties she meeting in her family and at school. One day, everything changes. While she is hiding in the school photocopier, the machine turns on and creates a replica of herself: a second Anna! Now one can go to school while the other has fun - and no one notices, so begins an exciting game of misunderstandings and confusion!
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsTherese HerzJuraj HerzJirí SchmitzerFilm from a circus environment where all the artists are circus artists also outside the manege. The circus' main attraction is the clown August, but one day he gets a toothache and his wife, Augustine, has to take over his job.
- DirectorDrahomíra KrálováStarsLucie CechováTereza FliegerováMarie TomásováTwo little girls fight against the destruction of an idyllic house and garden.
- DirectorMatti GeschonneckStarsDiether KrebsCorinna KirchhoffHans-Peter KorffA train and all its passengers disappear from the Berlin underground system, apparently travelling as a ghost train beneath the city. A young mathematician develops a theory: The train is still inside the network, but due to the opening of a new line, this network has become so complex that the train went into the 4th dimension and is travelling on the backside of a Moebius-strip. Unfortunately, also the designer of the network vanished...
- DirectorVolker KoeppIn this documentary 'Volker Koepp' shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the rivers Weichsel and Memel and proceeds the development of the state.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsBarbara AuerUlrich MatthesDaniel MinettiA prehistory of the former GDR. Towards the end, the Monday demonstrations of 1989 develop.
- DirectorBarbara JungeWinfried Junge
- DirectorBarbara JungeWinfried Junge
- DirectorVolker KoeppStarsEdith DahlkeElsbeth FischerRenate LustA new kind of normality has taken hold in Wittstock, which the filmmaker has captured for us for the one last time. The big factory is no longer there. As for the three women workers, Elsbeth goes to retraining courses, always on the hunt for a job; Renate has now been working for five years as a chambermaid in a small hotel; Edith, who used to be so rebellious, has moved to Heilbronn for work and become very tranquil.
- DirectorJutta BrücknerKaj HolmbergStarsJutta BrücknerPeter BuchholzLine GertsenAbout Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) focusing on his need for women as coworkers and lover. Also a psychological case study that derives his opportunism in the relationship with modern and consequent cardiac neuros.
- DirectorJoachim Tschirner
- DirectorGünter MeyerStarsKurt BöweBarbara DittusSaskia GrasemannWhen her mother inherits an old guesthouse in a sleepy town in Brandenburg Maja is less than happy. There is, however, the local legend of a ghost - could the stories be true?
- DirectorBeatrice ManowskiWolfgang BüldStarsBeatrice ManowskiErdal YildizAxel PapeA young woman is thrown out of the flat and finds herself not only homeless but also broke. In order to survive, she becomes a private detective but also gets mixed up in the underground world of drugs and prostitution.
- DirectorVolker Koepp
- DirectorNina GrosseStarsMartin FeifelMarianne DenicourtUlrich MüheFilm about the German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), concentrating on his ardent affair with Susette Gondard.
- DirectorRolf LosanskyStarsAndreas BieberWalfriede SchmittGünter NaumannAs a small boy, Hans is sent by his poor parents to an old mill days from home, where he works for seven years as the miller's industrious apprentice. When Hans decides, having outgrown the bed, to return home with his pet raven Jako, despite a fancy for the miller's daughter Anna, his compounded rich pay is a lump of gold. When Hans gets tired of carrying the heavy lump, the ignoramus trades the onerous treasure for a willful horse. Realizing he's no rider, Hans trades the mount for a cow, and unable to milk it properly makes another trade, for a sheep, next trades again for a pig. The thieving tramp Caroline, who dresses as 'boy' Friedrich, tricks Hans out of the pig which she says is stolen, leaving him the goose she really stole, but he makes his last trade before the police turns up...
- DirectorEgon GüntherStarsVeronica FerresHerbert KnaupSibylle CanonicaThe relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christiane's rival, Charlotte von Stein, a former favorite of Goethe, begins plotting and scheming against her. Christiane puts up with countless insults and humiliations like having to 'disappear' with their son into the servants' quarters and to stay at home on official occasions. Goethe marries her when she saves his life during an attack by plundering Napoleonic soldiers. Her new social position as Goethe's wife is resented and envied by all. When she is openly attacked by the snooty, jealous people, Goethe is only half-hearted in coming to her defence. But she stays with him for he is her great love, even when she turns to the charms of many youthful admirers...
- DirectorBarbara JungeWinfried Junge
- DirectorBarbara JungeWinfried JungeStarsDieter Finger
- DirectorHeide Breitel
- DirectorGünter MeyerStarsSaskia GrasemannReiner HeiseNina Hoger
- DirectorRainer SimonStarsJens SchumannMacca MalikRenate Krößner
- DirectorSören VoigtStarsIll-Young KimHenriette HeinzePaul Faßnacht'Tolle Lage' is a campsite on Rügen, which presents itself as a playground for bizarre characters
- DirectorStefan LukschyStarsJaime FerkicHans ClarinCarmen-Maja AntoniPinky, a child detective, solves two cases for multi-millionaire Jonathan Morgan.
- DirectorBarbara JungeWinfried Junge
- DirectorJens BeckerStarsIonel BoeruReuf IbrisagicJoseph MaltaA documentary about the last European hangmen.
- DirectorBernard GiraudeauStarsBernard GiraudeauRichard BohringerThierry FrémontIn 1785, Jean-Franois de la Plaine is appointed by the King governor in West Africa, in a period when slavery was the rule.
- DirectorOlaf KaiserStarsMyriam AbbasHenning BaumJonathan DümckeJoin George Noory and Christine Parker in this new episode of Beyond Belief. A strange howl in the dead of night changed one family's life, forever. From that moment on, the Parker family has been besieged by Bigfoot-type creatures living near their home
- DirectorFritz BaumannStarsGeorge QuayeNaomie HarrisJimmy AkingbolaFrom Ghana to a deserted coast - from Morocco to Spain - out of desperate need, a group of West Africans dare the perilous journey to Germany. But their path to the promised land of satellite dishes and a better life is strewn with obstacles. In West Africa, the name "Anansi" means spider - a well-loved trickster. This ancient mythical character represents the survival strategies of a people who secure a future for themselves in spite of the most repulsive conditions. Anansi is an odyssey full of wonders and sacrifices, African mystic and a love that surpasses all borders.
- DirectorArek GielnikDietmar RatschStarsThomas BillhardtMargot SchwarzA former official GDR photographer returns to North-Vietnam in search for the people he photographed 30 years ago.
- DirectorBarbara JungeWinfried JungeStarsBernhard OestreichThe life of Bernd Oesterreich and his family in Germany from 1961 - 2002, before and after the reunion of East- and West-Germany.
- DirectorWojciech MarczewskiStarsMarek KondratKrystyna JandaJuliane KöhlerPawel Heller returns to his hometown after many years, to try to unravel the mystery of disappearance of his schoolmate.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsUlrich MatthesAugust DiehlHilmar ThateA drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsNebojsa GlogovacNatasa NinkovicAnica DobraA couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsKatharina ThalbachDominique HorwitzAndrzej ChyraA nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
- DirectorDaniele GriecoStarsErnst August SchepmannThe courageous fight of one woman to save the whales of the Strait of Gibraltar.
- DirectorKarola HattopStarsJonas HämmerleMichael RollOliver KorittkeWhat happens when suddenly everyone falls asleep and you are the only one staying awake? Ten-year-old Nicki made this experience completely involuntarily
- DirectorSimone JungStarsRegina HalmichArtur GrigorianErika HalmichDirector Simone Jung takes a closer look at the unique career of a woman in the male-dominated sport of boxing in Queen Im Ring
- DirectorEva WeberStarsAngela MerkelRobin AlexanderJoe BidenDriven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider - a woman, a scientist, and an East German - became the de facto leader of the Free world, told for the first time for an international audience.