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.

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

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

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...

Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the ...

End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at th...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues w...

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

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

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is t...

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