Photo model Monika Stange is found murdered in her apartment in a major West German city. Detectives Bentheim and Laube find rough diamonds hidden in the apartment. The trail leads to a racketeering ring and the influential industrialist Dr. Vogelsang. The latter is not prepared to get involved in the murder case under any circumstances and refuses to testify. Inspector Laube tries to solve the case without his colleague.

Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral...

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He dec...

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin...

Farsighted Falcon, chief of the Lakota, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and ...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...

This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engage...

Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. Bu...

On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distin...

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...

Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legaliz...

Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of t...

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

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film imag...
The three friends Stepan, Kolja and Anton go camping together on the beach and are looking forward t...

The “Bowlingtreff” is a bowling alley situated right in the centre of Leipzig opened in July 1987. A...

Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with th...

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town t...