A ship from the GDR fishing fleet is on its way home. The work is done, the hold full of fish. Captain Nipmerow could be satisfied with that, but he has a completely different problem to deal with - a matter about which he also owes the shipping company a statement.

Somewhere in the GDR, in 1988: young soldier Henrik Heidler starts his service in the National Peopl...

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he...

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with th...

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock...

Long-haul driver Hannes picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb, who had a falling-out with his parents af...

The brothers Kipp and Most set off to inherit their grandmother's estate. Along the way, they meet V...

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

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

A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to ...

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

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the cons...

Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is m...

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

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

In the summer of 1985, an American movie also ignites young people in the GDR: "Beatstreet" ensures ...

A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years a...

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