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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under...

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

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

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

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...

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