The Vault
Our Children
1989 ★ 9.5From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as goths, ski
In a Land That No Longer Exists
2022 ★ 6.2It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory
Sam: A Saxon
2023 ★ 5.2Based on the true story of Sam Meffire’s rise and fall in East Germany, this miniseries follows Sam’s desperate search for a place he can call home, as he fight
Ludwig van Beethoven
1954 ★ 10.0Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view. Ludwig van Beethoven is a 1954 documentary film that examines the life and work of the master comp
Enemy Engagement
2010 ★ 5.0Two ex-friends from East Germany meet up after many years. One was a dissident, the other spied on him for the Stasi. One went to prison. One did not. A unsettl
Einar Schleef - No Germany Did I Find
2026 ★ 0.0With his monumental productions, Einar Schleef pushed theatre to the outer reaches, confounded expectations in East and West alike, grappled with GDR origins an
Bettina
2022 ★ 8.0A biography set in East and West Berlin in which singer-songwriter Bettina Wegner, born in 1947, sings about life in the GDR, her feelings of being uprooted in
Manfred Krug
Manfred Krug was born on February 8, 1937, in Duisburg, Germany, and died on October 21, 2016, at the age of 79. He was a German actor, singer, and writer. Unti
Next Year at Lake Balaton
1980 ★ 5.0Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. But Ines’s narrow-minded parents intervene and insist that the
Heimspiel
2000 ★ 10.0Documentary about ice hockey: sport, fans, culture, accompanied by incursions in the history of the game in the GDR. The film follows the ice hockey club EHC Ei
Salmonberries
1991 ★ 5.5A young orphaned woman named Kotzebue is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue is helped by an East German librarian,
Drehbuch - Die Zeiten
1993 ★ 7.0The first cinematic review after the fall of the Wall and the end of the GDR. In the context of a reunion of the "children of Golzow" on the 1st anniversary of
Daniel Druskat
1976 ★ 4.3Large-scale, five-part film about the relationship between two men caught between friendship, rivalry and hatred during the first decades of GDR in the countrys
Da habt ihr mein Leben - Marieluise, Kind von Golzow
1997 ★ 8.0The different life paths of former girlfriends from Catholic and Protestant homes respectively - one a draftswoman, the other a chemical laboratory technician -
Diese Golzower - Umstandsbestimmung eines Ortes
1984 ★ 7.5Around the festival week for the 675th anniversary of Golzow for GDR television a portrait of the village, its landscape and agriculture in the past and present
Eigentlich wollte ich Förster werden - Bernd aus Golzow
2003 ★ 8.0Bernhard Oestreich, called Bernd, son of one of the leaders of the Golzow LPG, did not stay in the countryside, but also turned down the opportunity to graduate
About the Dream to Be Unsinkable
2026 ★ 0.0The film traces the rise and fall of GDR deep-sea fishing fleet - and the afterlives of its last surviving ships. Once more than a hundred strong, only a few ve
Jochen - Ein Golzower aus Philadelphia
2002 ★ 7.3About the son of an agricultural functionary who helped enforce the socialist order in Philadelphia in Brandenburg, then in Golzow (Oderbruch) and finally in Be
Was geht euch mein Leben an - Elke, Kind von Golzow
1997 ★ 8.0The different life paths of former girlfriends from Catholic and Protestant homes respectively - one a draftswoman, the other a chemical laboratory technician -
Seven Freckles
1978 ★ 6.2East Germany 1978. Karoline and Robert, teenagers who used to live in the same house until Robert's family moved, meet again at this year's holiday-camp. First
Balloon
2018 ★ 7.5Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this a
Forbidden Love
1990 ★ 5.818-year old Georg and 13-year old Barbara have been playing together as children. Play becomes love later, which leads to a catastrophe , as their parents are h
Berlin Hero
2025 ★ 6.6All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the re
A Stroll to Syracuse
2026 ★ 0.0In the middle of his life, Paul Gompitz from Rostock makes the decision to travel to Syracuse in Sicily. He is driven to follow in the footsteps of the poet Joh