Seven directors remember their childhood and youth; to the 50s and 60s in the GDR. They appear to be curious, vulnerable children and teenagers who also want to be cool (even though the word doesn't exist for them yet). They live in well-adjusted or resistant families. Some only in half because their father left for the West. Depending on their family background, they want or should help build the new, better Germany.

Loitz is one of those former GDR towns that still suffer from the effects of German reunification. F...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...
Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His ...

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...
Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; ...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...

Push-ups to the rhythm of a metronome, a meter counting backward from 100; three words are shouted t...

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster resea...

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunif...

Heiko, 51, a sheet metal former trained in GDR times, unemployed since the fall of the wall, pisses ...

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Pol...

A documentary exploring a crime that shocked Germany in the summer of 1999.

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East German...

In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in thi...

2024 is likely to be a decisive year for Sahra Wagenknecht's political future. In the arena of power...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-establish...
In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniver...

In 1987, a small film distributor from Frankfurt/Main brings the film "Dirty Dancing" to West German...

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of...

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understan...