Unforgettable scenes reveal what Falk Harnack may have envisioned when he filmed The Axe of Wandsbek, a film which uses nightmarish black and white images to evoke the inner and outer needs of a petit-bourgeois man who lets himself become the executioner for the slaughterers of the Third
German novelist Hans Fallada lives with his family in a small, remote town. His craving for peace and harmony collides with his own inner turmoil and the growing power of the Nazis.
The documentary tells the story of the German scientist Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988), who, in 1941, joined the British atomic project Tube Alloys, and three years later, J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, the highly secret Los Alamos Laboratory located in the New Mexico desert.
This biographical film about (East) German documentary filmmaker Peter Voigt (1933-2015) recounts important events in his artistic life. In the early 1950s, Voigt joined the Berliner Ensemble as Bertolt Brecht’s youngest assistant.
This biographical portrait of the screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase is part of a series of documentaries about DEFA filmakers by director Ullrich Kasten.
NOTE: This film is currently only available as part of our non-circulating research collection.
A documentary portrait of the young Bertolt Brecht. This film shows how the early years shaped the personality that became one of Germany’s most famous writers and poets.