At Hotel Astoria, the former hotspot of Leipzig, guests were served champagne and turtle soup while the Stasi listened in. Animated memories from times gone by.

„I began documenting their lives, if only because I hoped each film would have a happy ending.“ (Ger...

An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin...

Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....
TV-Documentary on German history

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...

It is an unknown chapter of the German post-war history: On April 23rd, 1949, the kingdom of the Net...

Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized h...

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film imag...
This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfel...
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...

A documentary about the hooligans and the rivalry of two football clubs in Leipzig.