Every year in the spring the pupils of the 8th grade in the GDR receive the 'Jugendweihe' and are admitted to the circle of adults. This year, Tim is ready. For him and his classmates, the day begins with a ceremony in the culture house, then he goes with the whole family in a hotel restaurant, to celebrate the event properly.

Two friends fall in love with the same girl and end up in a situation that can only make everyone un...

In a small town in Northern Germany, a penniless German veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by...

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies sh...

Ete and Ali are discharged from the army. Since Ete knows that his wife is having an affair, he does...

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Bo...

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has sever...

Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on ...

Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire...

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on...

Spain in the 1930s. The film tells of the fight of international troops against General Franco's arm...

Normal everyday life in an apartment building on Plantagenstraße in East Berlin is disrupted when a ...

Eva Jensen is a female carpenter form Hamburg who wants to make a new start on the Baltic Sea coast ...

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the...

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

East Germany before reunification: Wolfgang Schulz watches Western television and discovers his long...

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...

An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an America...

After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory ...