25 years after Erich Honecker's death, his personal secretary in Chile gives MDR an exclusive insight into the family's private archive. The material provides new background information on the dramatic escape story of the once most powerful man in the GDR, his journey to Chile and the dispute over Honecker's mortal remains.
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film ...
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...
In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...
In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster resea...
A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve ...
From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of sub...
"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has...
The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...
Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...
Former heads, senior officers and the rector of the MfS law school explain how the ministry function...
In October 1987, the documentary film collective Amber Films from Newcastle became the first British...
Was my father really a spy, as his file in the former East German Secret Service (STASI) suggests? T...