Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems. New Socialist Unity Party secretary Werner Horrath is charged with bringing the rough-and-ready builder crew into line. The task seems doomed to fail as the two men compete for the affections of young engineer Kati Klee. But when she gets pregnant by married man Horrath, he is in danger of being expelled from the party, and Balla takes his side...
Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationsh...
A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his...
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water...
A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 year...
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife ...
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under...
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...
An East German community finds millions in soon-to-be-worthless marks during 1990s reunification, an...
End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at th...
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a...
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet along...
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter ...
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can ta...
Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a m...
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working condit...
Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right afte...
Set in the Summer of 1988 and based on real events, the film tells the story of East-German twins Is...
Stefan, a young gay East German medical student, arrives in San Francisco for a medical congress and...
A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.
In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany....