German Democratic Republic Movies
- 1958
My Wife Wants to Sing
My Wife Wants to Sing01958HD
Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into her head that she would like a career as...
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- 2008
Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann
Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann02008HD
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.
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- 1976
Krach im Hochhaus
Krach im Hochhaus91976HD
A high-rise building like any other: the tenants lived a "normal life", went to work, came home and paid no further attention to their neighbors....
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- 2013
Jedes Jahr im Juni
Jedes Jahr im Juni3.42013HD
Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married...
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- 1983
Island of Swans
Island of Swans7.0711983HD
Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where...
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- 1975
Fischzüge
Fischzüge71975HD
A ship from the GDR fishing fleet is on its way home. The work is done, the hold full of fish. Captain Nipmerow could be satisfied with that, but he...
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- 2003
Die Datsche
Die Datsche4.752003HD
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- 2003
Bernau liegt am Meer
Bernau liegt am Meer92003HD
Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin.This film tells this 21-year-old’s story and describes the radical right-wing milieu in...
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- 2016
From Us to Me
From Us to Me82016HD
In October 1987, the documentary film collective Amber Films from Newcastle became the first British film crew ever allowed to shoot in East Germany....
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- 1980
Die Entstehung der beiden deutschen Staaten
Die Entstehung der beiden deutschen Staaten01980HD
Short film about the GDR (DDR) and the FRG (BRD)
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- 2007
Alle Alle
Alle Alle4.82007HD
Ina, just released from prison, returns to the place of her childhood in search of life and meets the occasional desperado Domühl in her...
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- 2008
Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution
Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution62008HD
The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a...
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- 2000
A kis utazás
A kis utazás72000HD
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- 1990
DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953
DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 195301990HD
"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has repeatedly struggled with domestic political...
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- 2009
Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel
Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel72009HD
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- 2009
Der letzte Sommer der DDR
Der letzte Sommer der DDR02009HD
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- 2019
Honeckers letzte Reise
Honeckers letzte Reise02019HD
25 years after Erich Honecker's death, his personal secretary in Chile gives MDR an exclusive insight into the family's private archive. The material...
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- 2014
Codename Pirate
Codename Pirate02014HD
Was my father really a spy, as his file in the former East German Secret Service (STASI) suggests? This question marks the starting point of a...
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- 2007
Der volkseigene Bürgermeister
Der volkseigene Bürgermeister02007HD
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- 1989
Die DDR im Umbruch
Die DDR im Umbruch01989HD
Documentary about the late-era German Democratic Republic
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