Czechoslovakian spy Pavel Minarik worked for 7 years at Radio Free Europe, an American news broadcasting organization with headquarters in Munich. Evidence from his time there is used to unmask the station's role in increasing Cold War tensions.
It is June 1941 and a company of German soldiers is stationed near the Lithuanian border. While on leave, three soldiers—Wagner, Lick and Paulun—go off on a hunting trip. All is fine until one of them accidentally shoots their captain’s daughter.
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.
Three documentary segments illustrate the GDR's international partnerships in the fields of politics, art, and commerce.
Documentary footage celebrates the anniversary of the GDR's nationally owned cinematographic institutions with examples of their artistic and political significance.
This film explains the historic basis for the friendship between East Germany and the Soviet Union, with examples of how these close ties shape various domains of life, including culture, economy, research, architecture, and education.
Examples of East German involvement in international political bodies are shown in three brief documentary segments.
In 1973, some 3200 delegates from 143 countries met in Moscow to discuss an issue of critical international importance for all mankind: the need for just and stable world peace.
The German-Soviet Friendship Society, currently at around 5 million members, has been in existance for 30 years. This film presents the Society's main house in Berlin and also provide information about the close relationship between the two countries reaching back to the end of WWII.
Black-and-white flashbacks to Dresden's baroque past appear alongside Agfacolor footage of the city in the mid-1950s, after the fire bombings of WWII.