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.

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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