Movies

East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold,...

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

18-year old Georg and 13-year old Barbara have been playing together as children. Play becomes love later, which leads to a catastrophe , as their...

Thumbelina is born in a calyx. A bumblebee opens the flower and the little one goes on a journey of discovery. She has to hide from a nubile frog in...

Little Bear wants to surprise his mother for her birthday with a picture he has painted himself. To avoid being discovered, he sits on the chimney of...

Hoping to restore his family name to the ranks of the great circus dynasties, Karl Urmann works with his children to develop a horse act. Having...

Around 1,500 people from more than forty countries met in Dresden for the 1984 congress of UNIMA, the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Founded...

Experiments and interviews are used in order to illustrate the special duties of care when raising children with regard to their behavior in road...

A brave prince must seek the fabled singing, ringing tree in order to win the heart of a beautiful princess.

Princess Aurinia goes with her maid Lisa to the castle of King Ewald, his son Ivo, to whom she is promised as a wife. On the way, Lisa forces the...

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.

Short film about the GDR state border

A fairy-tale of the Sorbian poet Jurij Brezan as an allegory of threatened nature dedicated to the Sorbs.

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the...

This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfeld chemical plant set themselves the task of...

Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days, and the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent. It’s down to...

Tillebille is a little mouse who has a hard time standing up to the sneaky fox. Nevertheless, she manages to secure her little territory for herself...

To an attentive passer-by, the activities of some painters seem very suspicious. As a result of their artistic efforts, the anti-occupier slogan AMI...

Eberhard Kunstmann, a shipbuilder at the Neptune Wharf in Rostock, counsels collegues who are struggling with alchohol addiction.

In this film about apprentices of the Rewatex laundry, Böttcher once again turns to the focal concern of almost all his films the attempt to...