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...

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

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

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

From perennial underdogs to the surprise team of German soccer: the film tells the story of 1. FC Un...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow ...

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

Photo reporters Rolf and Karin travel the country in search of the best motifs for a new travel cale...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...