When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina. Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly...

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and h...

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daught...

Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. ...

After a prologue where we are shown the backgrounds of Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson, we see the sto...

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presi...

Radical West German terrorist Rita Vogt abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a n...

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German ...

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he...

Six years after being presumed dead in a fire, and just as the town prepares to finally celebrate Ha...

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking ...

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with th...

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fig...

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, ha...

Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Ar...

Long-haul driver Hannes (Manfred Krug) picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb (Jaecki Schwarz), who had a...

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shor...