Cinematography: Werner Bergmann

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Jaecki Schwarz · Vasili Livanov · Aleksei Ejbozhenko · Galina Polskikh

Plot April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team. Having fled Germany with his family when he was...

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Sasha Krusharska · Jürgen Frohriep · Erik S. Klein · Stefan Pejchev

Plot The tragic love of the Jewish girl and the Nazi officer is presented as a symbol of human purity defeated by fascism and racial prejudice.

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Ulrike von Zerboni · Günther Simon · Erwin Geschonneck · Manja Behrens

Plot Sun Seekers was banned in 1958 at the urging of the USSR, since it treats Soviet/German relations in mining uranium in the GDR's Wismut region, to support the nuclear arms...

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Peter Prager · Uwe Zerbe · Eberhard Kirchberg · Detlef Gieß

Plot Four young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and...

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Sonja Sutter · Horst Drinda · Hans-Peter Minetti · Kurt Oligmüller

Direction Slatan Dudow

Cast Rolf Ludwig · Erwin Geschonneck · Else Wolz · Christel Bodenstein

Plot Jobless waiter Hans Albert Hauptmann accidentally runs into a meeting of ex-Wehrmacht combatants in Cologne, West Germany. They mistake him with a high nazi officer and he's considered to be...

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Wilhelm Koch-Hooge · Hilmar Thate · Franz Kutschera

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Donatas Banionis · Olivera Katarina · Fred Düren · Tatyana Lolova

Plot As court painter of King Carlos IV, Goya reached wealth and fame. Believe in the King and the Church, but also a Spanish who loves his people. This contradiction is...

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Renate Blume · Eberhard Esche · Hans Hardt-Hardtloff · Hilmar Thate

Plot After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village. It is 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her...

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Wolfgang Heinz · Ursula Burg · Hilmar Thate · Lissy Tempelhof

Plot Professor Hans Mamlock is the distinguished chief of surgery in a university hospital. The year is 1933, and although the Professor is Jewish, he remains unconcerned with politics and the...

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Karla Runkehl · Wolfgang Kieling · Wilhelm Koch-Hooge · Eduard von Winterstein

Plot Walter Friedel has abandoned his medical studies in 1941 and celebrating life in the casino earns Ahlsund. At the request of his girlfriend, Irene, tough communist, attends a injured in...

Direction Walter Heynowski

Direction Gerhard Klein

Cast Erwin Geschonneck · Uwe-Jens Pape · Karl Kendzia · Ulrich Thein

Plot Two boys in West Berlin, Klaus and Max live in poverty. Both dream of a career in boxing, and save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves with which...

Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Kurt Böwe · Ursula Karusseit · Andreas Schmid · Reimar J. Baur

Plot In this film, Wolf and scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase explore the role of art and the artist in socialist society. A sculptor questions the reception and value of his work, in...

Direction Joris Ivens · Günter Reisch · Ivan Pyryev