GDR tourism expert Obermüller wants to instruct his deputy Hurtig in the management of the newly opened Schneemannbaude (ski lodge). However, he makes an embarrassing mistake beforehand. As a result, the entire staff, from the cook to the chambermaid, take a few days off over the turn of the year, while the first guests are already arriving. They have to roll up their sleeves and lend a hand, whether making the beds, working at reception or in the boiler room. Despite the improvisational skills of the Obermüller/Hurtig team, there are a few minor compromises when it comes to service...

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

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

The school authorities want to read success stories in director Joachim Faber's reports. But they ca...

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

Four years after the end of the German Democratic Republic, Katarina Witt, two-time Olympic champion...

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses un...

A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.

Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets...

Set in the Summer of 1988 and based on real events, the film tells the story of East-German twins Is...

East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party l...

East-Germany, 1990. The first summer after Germany's reunification and Olli is eager to explore this...

Hilde's restaurant is booming! Hilde and her colleagues can look forward to plenty of customers with...

24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police of...

Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wan...

Adaptation of the classic fairytale. Rapunzel lives alone in the woods, in a tower with no doors. Th...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a communist family discovers a bunker full of money soon to be wo...

Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she mee...

Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany.

Post-war Germany 1945: Two rival gangs of uprooted boys fight each other in the ruins of Berlin, who...