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

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...

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

Energie Cottbus, a small soccer club from the periphery of the republic, got promoted to the first d...

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young so...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right afte...

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

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