The poor charcoal burner Peter Monk summons the good spirit of the forest to help him overcome his outsider stigma, which above all, prevents him from marrying his beloved Lisbeth. Despite the good spirit’s help, Peter squanders his wealth and loses everything.

This film introduces the viewers to GDR higher education policy via Berlin's Humboldt University. In an interview, university director and professor Helmut Klein describes his career at the university beginning with his studies in 1946.

For more than 40 years, Quichua artists have painted colorful pictures of daily life, celebrations and traditions of their villages in the Ecuadorian Andes. In their work, reality and dreams blend with pre-Columbian myths and Christian influences.

Music students rehearse Hanns Eisler’s Ernste Gesänge (Serious Songs), the 7-part song cycle that the composer wrote four weeks before his death in 1962.

Tanya and Philipp work together and are both dedicated teachers. They become close and move in together. Tanya is very much in love and gets pregnant.

A portrait of the eponymous German-French mercenary squad—led by ex-Wehrmacht soldier Siegfried Müller (aka Kongo-Müller)—that was responsible for some of the worst massacres of the 1964 Congo Crisis.

Far away from the big cities, in the vast expanse of the Northern Prairies, a withdrawn group of people is practicing its stubborn way of life.

This episodic film tells five self-contained stories of women around the world, shot by five different filmmaking teams under the artistic supervision of DEFA director Joris Ivens.

This documentary film uses a 1988 annual meeting of SS veterans in Bavaria to frame the context for examining the life of former SS Sergeant and meeting organizer, Walter Krüger.

Many women face the challenge of reconciling professional and family life. In the GDR, programs such as vocational training, day care, and medical care during pregnancy give women better opportunities for personal and career development and greater equality at work.