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...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of sub...

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

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...

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

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...

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve ...
Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin.This film tells this 21-year-old’s story and de...
In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. The...

In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film ...

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