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 life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...

Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and ...

Was my father really a spy, as his file in the former East German Secret Service (STASI) suggests? T...

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of sub...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster resea...

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...
Documentary about the late-era German Democratic Republic
In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. The...

In October 1987, the documentary film collective Amber Films from Newcastle became the first British...

In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film ...
Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin.This film tells this 21-year-old’s story and de...