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...

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

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

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

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

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...
The three friends Stepan, Kolja and Anton go camping together on the beach and are looking forward t...

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film imag...

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

Detlev, a single insurance clerk in his 30s, is kept dependent by his loving and caring mother and l...

Hard, harder, hardest! This film orders you from the start to turn up the volume and pay attention. ...

Armin Glaser, a lieutenant in the Stasi, lives with his wife Marie and daughter Kati in Karl-Marx-St...

In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffe...

Photo reporters Rolf and Karin travel the country in search of the best motifs for a new travel cale...