The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recognized Soviet Russia. And so German-Soviet relations took their course. The film tells the story of the eventful history of both countries and the people in them. It is a story with repercussions right up to the present day, as their images continue to have an impact. Their myths, enemy images and projections continue to shape mutual perceptions. A history of ideologies - their fight against each other was to the death, the extermination of the other - here racial, there political-ideological - was meant existentially. It was about annihilation. Then again, at other times, it was about coexistence: in friendly enmity - hostile friendship.

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...
A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introdu...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...

June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of partic...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on hi...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...

Black Box BRD steps back into German history, showing the Federal Republic of Germany of the 70s and...

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and ...

Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behin...

The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet ...

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime...

The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...