The school authorities want to read success stories in director Joachim Faber's reports. But they cannot simply be produced on an assembly line. Pupils, for example, use the wrong tone. The matter draws circles until the superiors finally talk about refusal to work. Director Faber is caught between the efforts to resolve the conflict with pedagogical means and the pressure from above.

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play ...

Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teena...

A missing person case involving a child in 1987 East Germany attracts the attention of an investigat...

A high-rise building in the center of Berlin in the GDR on July 11, 1982. The final match of the soc...

Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get...

Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legaliz...

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy...

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all aff...

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany....

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

Ete and Ali are discharged from the army. Since Ete knows that his wife is having an affair, he does...

A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationsh...

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses un...

In 1973, two teenagers are illegally transported across the East German border inside a fake cow.