American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...

The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy...

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having...

At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village ...

Theater director Falke, dressed as a bat, ends up in prison after a merry carnival night. Director F...

A dramatized account of the French Resistance, this wartime film depicts how railway workers sabotag...

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchuku...

After Jochen saves police officer Erich's life, the two men become close friends and Erich helps Joc...

The relationships among two pre-pubescent brothers and their estranged father are tested on a trip i...

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with th...

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a drama...

Ramesh, the youngest son of a well-to-do family, falls in love with a woman he hears singing on the ...

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meetin...

An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Un...

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin ...

Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father....