Movies

This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’...

A group of drummers from various backgrounds gather together for a special performance.

A nasty witch has stolen the Princess’ beautiful face. When the three little bunnies try to help the Princess, they also get bewitched and...

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making...

The devil begrudges Kasper his beautiful house. He wants to capture him and force him to build a new devil's house. But Kasper is clever enough to...

Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. But Ines’s narrow-minded parents intervene...

One day, the happily married Karl Lehmann is asked by his single colleague, Mrs. Schmidt, for an unusual service: She wants a child. Lehmann is...

Zeitspiele is a playful satire about optimal time management in a company with countless side blows to the socialist planned economy.

The history of money goes back to when people decided to settle down. They look for a physical equivalent to exchange goods… Nörgel and...

Stiff formal exercises of the young dancing pupils and hot beat rhythms in the discotheque.

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man....

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is...

Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and...

Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again...

On the night before the trip to the winter holiday, a boy dreams of the adventures he will experience in the mountains. Of course, he wants to try...

On a pasture in a small village stand the cows and calves of the herder Bürle. Since many years, there is also a wooden calve standing among...

A fairy-tale of the Sorbian poet Jurij Brezan as an allegory of threatened nature dedicated to the Sorbs.

On a pasture in Bavaria, an ox frightens members of the American occupying forces. Farmer Alois, the owner of the animal, is sentenced to thirty days...

In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prague. He has been trying to take the city for...