Screenplay: Wolfgang Kohlhaase

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 Vadim Perelman

Cast Nahuel Pérez Biscayart · Lars Eidinger · Leonie Benesch · Jonas Nay

Plot 1942. Gilles, a young Belgian man, is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Bibiana Beglau · Martin Wuttke · Nadja Uhl · Harald Schrott

Plot Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives...

Direction Konrad Wolf · Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Cast Renate Krößner · Alexander Lang · Dieter Montag · Klaus Brasch

Plot Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the...

Direction Andreas Dresen

Cast Henry Hübchen · Corinna Harfouch · Sylvester Groth · Markus Hering

Plot What starts off as a rather rapid track through a film set, gradually unravels as a sardonic commentary on the lives of those in the film industry. Germany's own Oscar...

Direction Andreas Dresen

Cast Inka Friedrich · Nadja Uhl · Andreas Schmidt · Stefanie Schönfeld

Plot Hot summer. Nike has a balcony, Katrin has a son, Ronald drives a truck, Tina's a waitress, Oskar and Helene are old and alone. At the beginning, middle or end...

Direction Matti Geschonneck

Cast Bruno Ganz · Alexander Fehling · Sylvester Groth · Pit Bukowski

Plot A family of German Communists caught on the wrong side of history.

Direction Andreas Dresen

Cast Merlin Rose · Julius Nitschkoff · Joel Basman · Marcel Heuperman

Plot The Leipzig suburbs, shortly after the collapse of East Germany. Rico, Daniel, Paul and Mark, until recently still Pioneers in their red neckerchiefs, are growing up in the maelstrom of...

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Harald Juhnke · Udo Samel · Elisabeth Trissenaar · Katharina Thalbach

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 Gerhard Klein

Cast Ekkehard Schall · Ilse Pagé · Ernst-Georg Schwill · Harry Engel

Plot The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents.

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Sylvester Groth · Fred Düren · Matthias Günther · Klaus Piontek

Plot The young German POW Mark Niebuhr, a former rifleman of an infantry battalion, arrives on a train at the Warsaw depot in October 1945. A Polish woman believes to have...

Direction Gerhard Klein

Cast Dieter Mann · Monika Gabriel · Erwin Geschonneck · Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

Plot Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack of materials… not to mention their...

Direction Gerhard Klein

Cast Hannjo Hasse · Christoph Beyertt · Wolfgang Kalweit · Georg Leopold

Plot Relates the facts of the so-called "Gleiwitz provocation" on the night of August 31, 1939, the false flag operation directed by Alfred Naujocks under the command of Reinhard Heydrich, after...

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 Gerhard Klein · Helmut Nitzschke

Cast Alexander Lang · Gert Gütschow · Norbert Christian · Kurt Böwe

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Fred Düren · Klaus Schwarzkopf · Jörg Gudzuhn · Rolf Hoppe

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Götz · Rolf Hoppe · Otto Sander · Ulrike Krumbiegel

Plot Massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946

Direction Philipp Stölzl

Cast Alice Dwyer · Lars Rudolph · Filip Peeters · Christian Grashof

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...