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When a significant quantity of valuable gemstones is to be transported to South America by plane, those responsible are naturally extremely nervous....

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try...

Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses...

The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his...

Documenting the rebuilding of Potsdam one year after the war under Soviet supervision.

Documentary about nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen.

The young actress Bettina has angered the director of a West Berlin camp for troubled youth with a song that celebrates the adventurous lives of...

French teacher Annette Müller has two ardent admirers who are constantly urging her to marry: diplomat Klaus and engineer Theo. But she can't make...

During the Thirty Years' War, Christine, an orphan, falls in love with the colonel Count Merian. In order to always be with him, she puts on men's...

After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for...

A chemist and his assistant make a groundbreaking discovery. They manage to make butter directly from pasture grass without having to deal with...

Boys are usually busy playing "Indians", but when their uncle decides to rent part of their home to a Doctor Höflin, they took an oath to cast him...

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career,...

Shortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a major police raid all seem to come from the same...

A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period...

Documentary short about the Leipzig Tradefair in 1946.

The film centres around the young woman Erika, desperately seeking for love and escape from the depression of the times, drifting, and in the end...

Anne Treibel owns a small house that is home to four women and one man, Martin, a badly injured war veteran. All the women are interested in Martin,...

Commissioned by the newly founded SED for the first regional elections (October 1946) in the Soviet occupation zone.