In the early 1950s, frequent power outages hurt production in the GDR. Using an innovative method from the USSR, workers at the Zschornewitz atomic power plant in Saxony-Anhalt are able to quickly repair a turbine and prevent a long delay in energy output.
On her deathbed, a wealthy woman reveals that she – in order to keep her possessions from being given to a collective – has hidden her jewels in one of twelve identical chairs, newly confiscated by revolutionary authorities.
Although German cities were spared from the atomic bomb in WWII, the "perfect bomb" was dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, shortly before capitulation.
Two young men took part in the Soweto riots in summer 1976, a key event in the fight against apartheid in South Africa. They encountered fierce police and military brutality. Now they are students at the School for Tropical Agriculture in Altenburg, East Germany.
Two soldiers in the Second World War stare out at us from a photo: one of them is crying in despair, the other is standing proud and tall and wearing a medal.
A WWII bombing run strikes a small Germany town, including the temporary hospital in which two women have just given birth.
Kamminke and Frank, both computer science students, have developed a program that enables a computer to automatically find and correct errors in its software. In spite of their technological prowess, the two men run into trouble because they simply will not adapt to accepted social patterns.
Under the guidance of their captain Ulzana, the Mimembros built an irrigation system and made their patch of desert fertile. Now they can live independently of the businessmen in Tucson.
In 1956 the popular car models Trabant and Wartburg were almost ready for mass production. A test drive of various GDR automobiles in Egypt serves as the impulse for this short documentary portrait of the North African country.
A dreadful secret binds innkeepers Abel and Ursula Hradscheck together. When Szulski, a debt collector from Krakow, arrives one day, unusual events begin to happen.