After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to travel to Wittenberg - the only place where carbide can be found. Once there, Kalle find himself in the unfortunate situation of having to hitchhike his way back to Dresden, transporting seven heavy barrels of carbide. However, his inventiveness and optimistic attitude help transform the grueling task into an adventurous, entertaining, and funny journey.
In the style of a documentary this tragic comedy tells the story of a relationship crisis between tw...
The brothers Kipp and Most set off to inherit their grandmother's estate. Along the way, they meet V...
An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototyp...
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Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock...
Ete and Ali are discharged from the army. Since Ete knows that his wife is having an affair, he does...
Eva Jensen is a female carpenter form Hamburg who wants to make a new start on the Baltic Sea coast ...
The crew of a small Saßnitz fisherman has problems with the "making a cultural socialist life". In o...
A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on...
Anton and his family moved into a high-rise building. In order for the new neighbors to accept his t...
OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a ...
In a small town in Northern Germany, a penniless German veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by...
An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an America...
Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on ...
The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has sever...