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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Pren...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...