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...

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

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fig...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tom does not have it easy. At the student theater, his friend Jan and his beloved Annelie play the l...

Four years after the end of the German Democratic Republic, Katarina Witt, two-time Olympic champion...
Hilde's restaurant is booming! Hilde and her colleagues can look forward to plenty of customers with...

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

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called S...

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...

A ship from the GDR fishing fleet is on its way home. The work is done, the hold full of fish. Capta...

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

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