Ein Kessel Buntes
1972 ★ 4.2The show was meant to compete with those on West German television. To this end it was fairly successful even attracting a following in parts of West Germany wh
Downfall
2004 ★ 7.9In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the wes
Julia Hartmann
Julia Hartmann works in acting. Born July 9, 1985 in East-Berlin, East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR) [now Germany]. Archytele lists 58 screen credit
Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt is a German former figure skater and actress born on December 3, 1965, in Falkensee, East Germany. She is recognized as a two-time Olympic champio
Never Look Away
2018 ★ 7.7German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime. Drama
Deutschland
2015 ★ 7.5A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old
The Last Witness
1960 ★ 6.4Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly eff
Max Riemelt
Max Riemelt (born in East Berlin, East Germany on 7 January 1984) is a German actor. Internationally, he is best known for playing Wolfgang Bogdanow in the tele
Felix Bressart
Felix Bressart (pronounced “BRESS‑ert”) was a German‑American actor of stage and screen, born on 2 March 1892 in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany (now Chernysh
Jaecki Schwarz
Jaecki Schwarz is a German actor born in Berlin, Germany on February 26, 1946. With around 120 film and television roles, he was one of the busiest performers a
Catherine Flemming
Catherine Flemming is a German film and TV actress. Born on February 2, 1967, in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany, she is now 59 years old. Her birthplace is now k
Barbara
2012 ★ 7.2In 1980s East Germany, Berlin doctor Barbara is banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fea
Duped Till Doomsday
1957 ★ 6.3East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., t
Stop Train 349
1963 ★ 7.0Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. Drama
November Days
1991 ★ 6.8Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism. History Docum
Deadly Silence
1997 ★ 4.0A gay man's return to his family in East Germany begins a series of tragic events. Drama
Night Crossing
1982 ★ 6.2Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story. Adventu
The Defector
1966 ★ 5.8An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stas
Funeral in Berlin
1966 ★ 6.4Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants
Torn Curtain
1966 ★ 6.6During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but
Steppe Gods
2026 ★ 0.0In the summer of 1945, between the Victory over Germany and the war with Japan, 10-year-old Petka from a Far Eastern village tries to save a dying friend from a
Top Secret!
1984 ★ 7.1Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond
TRADITIO III: A Work of Charity
2026 ★ 10.0Produced over two years by two young students from Switzerland and Germany in collaboration with the General House of the FSSPX, this production of more than f
Game, Set, and Match
1988 ★ 7.8Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to br