Princess Aurinia is travelling to meet her bridegroom, whom she has not yet seen. On the way, her crafty maid Liesa robs her mistress of all her possessions and forces her to exchange clothes and swear an oath of eternal silence.
After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. He is a widower with two sons, with the younger son just entering school. She is single and relatively satisfied in her current relationship with a married colleague.
On the afternoon of September 18, 1991, Strawalde and Penck, both significant contemporary German painters, get together for a unique joint-painting action in Berlin-Wedding.
The difficulties of the postwar period are reflected in twenty-year-old Erika's face. Although her good friend Walter is in love with her, he cannot offer her the pleasure and diversion she longs for.
Party Secretary Erich Honecker and leading members of the East German government visited Cuba in 1980. This film shows their meetings with Fidel Castro and Cuban workers, as well as displays of industrialization and progress in the socialist island's development.
This film is centered around the destinies of Hans Löring and his wife, Gerda, two workers from Hamburg who are representative of German opponents of Nazism. Gerda is carrying their first child. When the couple is arrested for political resistance after Hitler’s rise to power, Hans is sent to pri
On September 17, 2008, the directors visited (East) German sculptor and graphic artist Werner Stötzer (1931-2010) in his studio in Altlangsow. Stötzer talks about his artistic process in creating drawings and sculptures, as well as his time as an art student.
The history of the GDR Super-8 scene—an underground art movement that produced films outside official channels in the 1980s—produced by Cornelia Klauss, herself a Super-8 artist. The Stasi (secret police) monitored this rebellious scene closely.
A chronicle of three decades, beginning in the 1930s and ending with the Cuban revolution, is represented through the lives of two brothers separated by ideology and ambition.
An animated interpretation of Suite No. 4, composed and performed by the Bayon musical ensemble. Based in the GDR, Bayon’s works blend Khmer pentatonic music with classical, jazz and rock elements.