Cinematography: Thomas Plenert

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Pascal Greggory · Bruno Todeschini · Eric Caravaca · Amira Casar

Plot A dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The city of Santa Maria...

Direction Volker Koepp

Plot In this documentary 'Volker Koepp' shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the rivers Weichsel and Memel...

Direction Jürgen Böttcher

Plot A journey through Georgia (USSR) in which Böttcher lets the different aspects of everyday life in this Russian republic come down on him, with an emphasis on the picturesque and...

Direction Lutz Dammbeck

Plot "Thomas Plenert “borrowed” a 35mm camera one weekend and brought two reels of black-and-white film with which we conducted various experiments, including blowing up 8mm footage onto 35mm. And the...

Direction Volker Koepp

Direction Helke Misselwitz

Direction Heinz Brinkmann

Plot For Berliners, the Baltic island of Usedom was once the most luxurious destination for excursions within striking distance of the city. This is where imperial Germany's grand health resorts of...

Direction Helke Misselwitz

Cast Klaus Leube · Karl Heinz-Bartz · Manfred Gabbert · Heiko Schütt

Plot A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss.

Direction Lothar Warneke

Cast Christine Schorn · Hermann Beyer · Wilfried Pucher · Mike Lepke

Direction Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss

Cast Thilo Ackermann · Michael Ande · Dieter Bach · Markus Böttcher

Plot After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV-positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, then promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former East Berlin...

Direction Angelika Andrees · Petra Tschörtner

Plot Young people living in a children’s home in Mecklenburg talk about their unstable home situations and domestic violence. Many of them have alcoholic parents and some are in danger of...

Direction Helke Misselwitz

Cast Enrico Rizzo · Tilo Ciesla · Sascha Grohmann · Mirko Becher

Direction Helke Misselwitz

Cast Susanne Lothar · Cezary Pazura · Sophie Rois · Herbert Fritsch

Plot Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend....

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Barbara Auer · Ulrich Matthes · Annemone Haase-Wolf · Daniel Minetti

Direction Lutz Dammbeck

Direction Bernd Böhlich

Cast Alexandra Maria Lara · Robert Stadlober · Stefan Kurt · Barbara Schnitzler

Plot After her return from a Russian Gulag, Antonia is forced to keep her horrible experiences secret in favor of the new socialistic GDR. When she can't conceal the past despite...

Direction Sibylle Schönemann

Plot In 1990, workers tore down the border post between East and West Germany at Wartha, built not too long before. It was here in 1985 that director Sibylle Schönemann crossed...

Direction Hubertus Siegert

Cast Günter Behnisch · Werner Durth · Helmut Jahn · Josef Paul Kleihues

Direction Lutz Dammbeck

Plot "Young man, from now on you will only work for me". These were Adolf Hitler's words to the young sculptor Arno Breker in 1936. What would he commission from his...

Direction Helke Misselwitz

Cast Memdu Aki · Jaleh Amini · Cesare Basile · Ben Becker