The brothers Theo and Gustav Benthin pull profits through smuggling in divided Germany: Theo in the West and Gustav in the East. The East German police catch on quickly, however, and Gustav is arrested. The small band of smugglers disperses, with Gustav’s chauffer Peter Naumann fleeing to the West and his sister choosing the East after struggling to find work and lodging in the West.

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, an...

Paul Schulte takes a spa stay on the Baltic Sea to have his heart condition treated. His wife Barbar...

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top ...

The electrician Peter Drews is a brigadier at a Baltic Sea dockyard. His men are among the most reli...

World War II is over and Heinrich, a young German boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act acc...

Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations i...

Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with th...
The former athlete Barbara follows her husband to the province and attempts to masters her new life,...

15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of him...

When a motorcyclist dies in an accident, lieutenant Kreutzer and his colleague Arnold receive the or...

Kasper Mai, an export merchant and comrade with a “clean” record, discovers he is the prince of Hohe...

In the early summer of 1990, the Treuhandanstalt was founded to privatize the "state-owned" companie...

A little boy tries to keep a huge Newfoundland dog in his family's apartment.

Photo reporters Rolf and Karin travel the country in search of the best motifs for a new travel cale...

Berlin, summer 1988: While Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd perform in the West, East Berliners can lo...

On October 18, 1989, the SED Central Committee confirms the dismissal of Erich Honecker. The documen...
Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in t...

Former heads, senior officers and the rector of the MfS law school explain how the ministry function...