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Documentary on the moving of 108 families of the village MĂĽcheln, because of lignite mining in the area.
A journalist in her late twenties is beaten up by the police during clashes in Berlin on the turbulent October 7, 1989. The film constructs that day in the life of Nina R.
It's the holidays and a German freighter captain takes his whole family - his wife, ten-year-old Klaus and five-year-old Andrea - on a cruise to Czechoslovakia. The children have secretly smuggled Jackie the Fox Terrier aboard...
The story of the GrĂĽnthal peasants' uprising against the commander who oppresses and exploits them.
Holidays in colony (in Thuringia and on the Baltic) of the children of workers of a chemical industry in the DDR.
TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his escape to West Germany and a show trial was held after his arrest.
Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The documentary traces the history of the university. Graduates of the school have their say and excerpts of student films from five decades are presented.
Two young singers rehearse Eisler's "Ernste Gesänge", his last work, in which the prompt for the film's title can also be found. What is decisive in this film is the encounter with Eisler and his music, the consistency with which he thought about art and people. You can hear tape recordings of Hans Bunge in conversation with Hanns Eisler.
Three kids from a small village in Mecklenburg decide to sneak away to East-Berlin in order to gift Angela Davis a lucky pig.
