This collection of documentaries tells the story of the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, a central location for the city’s mixture of cultural, leisurely, war, occupation and political histories.
While unloading the cargo ship Florida, West German harbour workers discover napalm bombs instead of the expected high-tech machines aboard.
A few days after the end of World War II, the eleven-year-old orphan Julius is on the run from the destroyed city of Berlin. Julius and formerly imprisoned communist Kaiser (Hilmar Baumann) both stumble on a horse in a forest and report it to the Soviet commander in a nearby town.
Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny.
The teacher Wolfgang Auer and the policeman Hannes Wunderlich are friends and housemates.
This documentary traces the history of Dresden, the "Florence on the Elbe." Recreated scenes of the bombing of February 13, 1945, show the suffering which the city had to endure.
Berlin in the 1950s: divided, but not yet walled. Young artists, at the start of their careers and seeking a new lifestyle, frequented the East Berlin cafés and bars that were meeting places for intellectuals, as well as Cold War secret service agents and black marketeers.