Dieter Mann

After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted...

Several young girls were killed in a rural area. Thus Inspector Matthaei has to travel to the region where it happened and has to search for the...

Documentary about Curt Goetz.

Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his partner Markus, he is also sued by his widow...

A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever...

No one has any time for Moritz. And at school, things are not exactly the greatest either. Moritz runs away and moves into the inside of an...

Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are...

When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and confidence, but slowly the pressures of study and campus...

Marie is a 13 year old girl and blind. When she meets Herbert something wonderful begins.

A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen. Now, after graduating from a...

The two computer specialists Frank and Kamminke are not the type of citizens the party likes. Thus they are sent to the landscape where they still...

The employees in the software department allegedly lack "creative power". At least that's what high-flyer Dr. Heller suspects. The new head of the...

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girlfriend Karin...

Karl Erp is a middle-aged man with two children and a boring marriage. After starting an exciting affair with his intern, Miss Broder, he leaves his...

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and...

Pranksters Moritz Bolle and Max Sturbier plague their neighbors with cruel tricks - especially young record‐seller Brigitte, whom Moritz woos by...

Hannelore (65) has been caring for her husband Klaus (69), who has dementia, for four years. She is now at the end of her tether. When her neighbour...

Germany in the 18th century. Two brothers rebel against the narrow confines of the small state and feudal despotism. However, Franz and Karl Moor...

Their mother has died. Siblings Susanne and Thomas are shocked. And overwhelmed. Little by little, it dawns on them that their grumpy father has long...

In a senior citizens' residence in Berlin, six residents are betting on the Lotto jackpot of € 30 million. But what should one do with so much...

In order to track down the Russian mafia, Joachim Tresko goes undercover in the Berlin art scene. Meanwhile, his wife Katrin seems to have...

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking...

The Lübeck merchant Friedemann owes his crippled figure to a wet nurse "devoted to drink". He lives a secluded life with his three simple-minded...

After the sudden accidental death of her husband, Ursula blossoms, takes over the business of the deceased and goes out again.

It all begins with a crazy idea. Peter Schönfeld, a good husband whose excess of virtue already seems suspicious, is to be subjected to a fidelity...

In the 1930s, the Soviet ship "Chelyuskin" embarked on an expedition to the Northern Ocean. But soon there is an accident in the ice and the team can...

Florian is the son an army general and very proud of him. When his father has to attend the annual 1st of May demonstration, Florian grabs his teddy...

Beauty contest in a large Berlin disco: the prize is a promotional tour through various Arab countries, during which they are to advertise for the...

June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against...

The paths of many people cross before Christmas Eve. Each of them has their own special story to tell on this day... On the morning of December 24,...

Fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke is a Hitler Youth fanatic who is devastated to learn a hidden truth about his respected father who was a German...

One year has passed since Max and Wanda got their divorce. Max has come to the realization that he wants his ex-wife back - no matter what the cost!...

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner,...

It is 1944 and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels narrowly escapes an assassination attempt on the way to Obersalzberg. It is whispered to...

Johann Paul Schroth is a 20-year-old barber's apprentice who breaks out of the barber-surgeon's trade. Schroth wants to realize his dream, which is...

Eighteen-year-old Wolfgang has just passed his A-levels and still has a few months to go before he has to start his military service. Instead of...

After suffering from burnout syndrome and a hospital stay, an architect returns to his family. His wife and the children from their marriage as well...

Three children of a single father escape from the town in order to find a houseboat which was once owned by their mother.

Everything seems to be going according to plan for graduate engineer Oliver Berger. He has only just landed a lucrative contract for his employer...

Judith Kemp has become a lone fighter since the death of her husband. As a single mother of two children and an aspiring star lawyer in a large...

A well documented re-enaction of the July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, aka Operation Valkyrie.

A prisoner in JVA Weißenburg takes a staff member hostage, prompting Prison Director Ella Jansen to enter the cell in exchange, relying on...

The divorced florist Maria falls in love with the fated Holger, whose little son was killed two years ago in an accident with a driver's escape....

The wealthy Hamburg gallery owner Elaine Troost dies mysteriously on a stormy fall night and her body is subsequently found in the bathtub by her...

Edgar Wurlitzer is on his way home when a woman suddenly jumps in front of his car. He quickly drives on and enlists the help of his friend Werner...

A Czech woman is kidnapped in Berlin and forced into prostitution. The man behind the kidnapping is a respected businessman. He is on the wanted...

Vera and Stefan Rabe independently have the idea to snuggle away from their six kids between 8 and 17 to get some work done before Christmas. Both...

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The...

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to be shot as a spy. This decision is...

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from...

Pauline Oswald is 50 years old and has three daughters with her husband Robert. Now, after almost 30 years of marriage, they are about to divorce....

Fritz Schmenkel, a farm worker and soldier in the fascist Wehrmacht, deserts in Belarus in 1941. He wants to survive, makes his way to Russian...

Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully they are linked by events from a dark past. A...

The "Astoria", an English luxury liner, collides with a freighter shortly before the end of its voyage and threatens to sink. Captain Mitchell,...

Uwe Polzin, a highly talented biologist publicly stands the defence of his doctorate and this crucial day prompts him to look back on his life so...

After 35 years of military service, Officer Jürgen Drost takes on the job of mayor in the small village where he lived with his mother after World...

Melanie van der Straaten has the courage to separate from her wealthy, unloved husband and settle down with a new partner, defying all societal...

Kemmel, a sculptor with a troubled nature, wonders, as he approaches his fortieth birthday, whether he has created any truly significant work.

Johann Paul Schroth is a 20-year-old barber's apprentice who breaks out of the barber-surgeon's trade. Schroth wants to realize his dream, which is...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and...

The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer...

A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with...

Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland. Icebreakers...

Documentary short about the construction of the Markersbach Pumped Storage Power Plant in East Germany.

Film about the training and plowing championships of the socialist countries in Hungary. The title alludes to the popular record "Lyrik, Jazz &...

She is called Dona Juanita: the attractive young architect Anita Nachtigall, who manages a department on a large construction site with great...

Shortly before his retirement, Gustav Wanzka wants to return to his beloved profession as a teacher after years of working as a district school...

The final exam of sixteen and seventeen year olds at the end of the 10th grade. The individual in the minutes in which he is supposed to show what he...

"Der kleine Prinz" (The Little Prince) tells the story of a pilot who crash-lands in the Sahara desert and meets a young prince from another planet....

1985 East German television recording of a production of the play of the same name.