Cinematography: Erich Gusko

Direction Kurt Maetzig

Cast Angelika Waller · Alfred Müller · Ilse Voigt · Wolfgang Winkler

Plot "The Rabbit Is Me" was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. In it, a young student has an affair with a judge who...

Direction Siegfried Hartmann

Cast Rolf Ludwig · Heinz Schubert · Rolf Defrank

Plot A young soldier discovers three chests of copper, silver and gold and an old tinder-box in the hollow of an old oak tree. He is now rich. But he squanders...

Direction Egon Günther

Cast Lilli Palmer · Martin Hellberg · Rolf Ludwig · Hilmar Baumann

Plot Based on the novel by Thomas Mann. Charlotte Kestner, the love of Goethe's youth, became famous because she was the real-life Lotte represented in his renowned The Sorrows of Young...

Direction Kurt Maetzig

Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Marga Legal · Manfred Krug · Helmut Schellhardt

Plot Gerbstedt is a small village in the mining district of Mansfeld. In 1929, a celebration of brotherhood between workers and Soviet mining town, received as a gift Gerbstedt Flag Kriwoj...

Direction Joachim Herz

Cast Anna Prucnal · Gerda Hannemann · Fred Düren · Rainer Lüdecke

Plot In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks refuge in her fantasies and dreams. In this realm of imagination, a bold...

Direction Gerhard Klingenberg

Cast Willi Narloch · Gerd Ehlers · Heinz Frölich · Trude Bechmann

Plot In the late 1950s, the collectivization of agriculture is in full swing in the East German village of Willshagen on the German-German border. Those in charge have to face many...

Direction Egon Günther

Cast Jutta Hoffmann · Barbara Dittus · Rolf Ludwig · Armin Mueller-Stahl

Direction Egon Günther

Cast Jutta Hoffmann · Klaus Piontek · Inge Keller · Fred Düren

Direction Kurt Maetzig

Cast Regimantas Adomaitis · Karin Schröder · Klaus-Peter Thiele · Michael Gwisdek

Direction Egon Günther

Cast Klaus Piontek · Benjamin Besson · Milan Neela · Dietmar Richter-Reinick

Direction Egon Günther

Cast Rolf Ludwig · Franziska Herold · Evelin Dahm · Johanna Möhring

Plot Actor Ernst Stein, having abdicated from the stage in 1968 in protest of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, has long since retreated from the world around him. In a remote...