Martina and Jürgen are lovers in the GDR. She is studying economics in Leipzig, he is preparing for his master's examination as a violin maker in Altneukirchen in Vogtland. While Martina deals with problems of modern science and technology in her thesis, Jürgen is committed to the traditions of instrument making. This leads to friction and strains the relationship. And when Martina meets her former childhood friend Peter Struck in Altneukirchen, the center of musical instrument making in the GDR, who works here as a physicist at the research institute, jealousy also comes into play.

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young so...

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play ...

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany....

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

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues w...

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

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

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy...

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all aff...

When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under...

A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his...

Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationsh...

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Di...

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

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is t...

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can ta...

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right afte...

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