1978

Ursula

5/8

Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now fin...

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Ursula

1971

Optimistische Tragödie

0/0

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Free Anarchist-Revolutionary Section”. This regiment...

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Optimistische Tragödie

1979

Lachtauben weinen nicht

7/1

The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a strong comradeship. Among the workers are, for instan...

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Lachtauben weinen nicht

1981

Martin XIII.

7.5/2

The oceans seem to be the Nehls' second home. But there is one exception that Grandpa Nehl, alias Martin XI, captain of a training sailing ship, is no...

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Martin XIII.

1986

Ernst Thälmann

8.5/2

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on...

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Ernst Thälmann

1965

As Long as There’s Life in Me

10/2

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Socia...

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As Long as There’s Life in Me

1974

Maria und der Paragraph

7/1

Maria is a record saleswoman by profession. She is lucky to have a job, because the year is 1930 and a major economic crisis has hit the world, accomp...

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Maria und der Paragraph

1978

Anton the Magician

3.714/7

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.

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Anton the Magician

1977

The Island of the Silver Herons

7/2

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them. Hein...

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The Island of the Silver Herons

1974

Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui

0/0

Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 and his rule in the years that followed are transferred to the North American criminal world of the 1930s in a parab...

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Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui

1989

Großer Frieden

0/0

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Großer Frieden

1988

The Distance Between You and Me and Her

4/3

Journalist Marga is commissioned by her editor-in-chief to interview a rock singer, Anne, from Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin. When Robert, an unpublished...

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The Distance Between You and Me and Her

1987

Die erste Reihe

9/1

Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are ostracized...

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Die erste Reihe

1986

Das wirkliche Blau

9/1

The real blue is the color with which potter Benito Guerrero makes his fortune. When he no longer receives the color from Germany as a result of the S...

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Das wirkliche Blau

1986

Die Weihnachtsklempner

7/3

Plumber Martin and his younger colleague Frank are on call on Christmas Eve of all days. Frank's girlfriend Regina, who is expecting her first baby at...

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Die Weihnachtsklempner

1957

Katzgraben

9/1

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Katzgraben

1957

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

0/0

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Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

1966

Die Tage der Commune

0/0

Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleeding workers of Paris who enthusiastical...

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Die Tage der Commune

1980

Blaue Pferde auf rotem Gras

0/0

In 1920 Moscow, a wounded Red Guard paints “Blue Horses on Red Grass” to symbolize hope he’ll never see. He presents it to a gravely ill Lenin amid fa...

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Blaue Pferde auf rotem Gras

1959

An Old Love

7/1

Frieda and August Walkowiak celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. However, the marriage has been in crisis for some time. August wants to spend hi...

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An Old Love

1987

Childhood

6.5/2

Alfons lives with his grandparents on a Silesian village farm at the end of WWII. He adores his grandmother, who runs everything after her husband die...

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Childhood

1959

They Called Him Amigo

7/5

A refugee from a Nazi concentration camp is discovered by some boys in WWII Berlin. They provide him with food and help him to continue his flight. La...

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They Called Him Amigo

1980

Der Baulöwe

6.667/12

The successful entertainment artist Ralf Keul must develop his land on the Baltic Sea or else ultimately give it up. Inexperienced yet courageous, he...

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Der Baulöwe

1983

Der Mann und sein Name

8/1

The young Walter Retzlow, drafted into the guard team of a foreign labor factory in the last year of the war, receives the papers of a murdered anti-f...

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Der Mann und sein Name

1979

Addio, piccola mia

4/3

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow students try to initiate a revolution in Germany, bu...

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Addio, piccola mia

1983

Mathilde Möhring

7/1

Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel.

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Mathilde Möhring

1985

Visiting Van Gogh

3/3

In the 22nd Century, antiquities command huge prices. A woman uses a time machine to travel back the the 19th Century in order to buy paintings from V...

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Visiting Van Gogh

1970

Im Spannungsfeld

10/1

Electronic data processing is an absolute must in the Information Age. Karl Hoppe, the director of a large plant, is aware of this need for modernizat...

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Im Spannungsfeld

1980

Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod

7/1

In 1903, Jan Anskath and his half-brother Martin are living in Rajgorod at the border between Russia and Prussia – Jan on the Russian, Martin on the P...

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Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod

1981

Die Stunde der Töchter

3/3

A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain o...

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Die Stunde der Töchter

1978

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

8/1

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war...

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Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

1975

Looping

3.333/3

The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the explos...

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Looping

1969

The Seventh Year

7/1

Dr. Barbara Heim, a heart surgeon, and Gunter Heim, a well-known actor, have been married for seven years. They have a six-year-old daughter. Both par...

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The Seventh Year

1961

Mother Courage and Her Children

7.25/4

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wago...

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Mother Courage and Her Children

1967

Stories of That Night

6.667/3

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There...

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Stories of That Night

1965

The Best Years

6.25/4

In 1945, Ernst Machner returns home from the war in his mid-20s. Tuche would like him to weave for a living, but his comrades persuade him to become a...

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The Best Years

1970

Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel

10/1

Paul Pospischiel loses his job in the great colliery collapse in the Ruhr, retrains and builds a new life for himself. One day, he receives a letter f...

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Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel

1973

Unterm Birnbaum

6.25/4

Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, i...

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Unterm Birnbaum

1975

Censored: Kuhle Wampe

10/1

A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? (1932). Directed...

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Censored: Kuhle Wampe

1976

Sein letzter Fall

7/1

Private detective Fritsch from Munich had received a lucrative assignment: he was to obtain proof of inheritance for a Mr. Seligmann from Canada; this...

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Sein letzter Fall

1977

Goldene Zeiten - Feine Leute

0/0

Historical television comedy around Friedrich Alfred Krupp, whose connection to the imperial court and the influence of Kaiser Wilhelm II. to the Krup...

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Goldene Zeiten - Feine Leute

1963

Carbide and Sorrel

6.917/12

After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to tra...

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Carbide and Sorrel

1954

Das Stacheltier - Der Wintermantel

0/0

A little man wants to order a warm coat from a fabric he has brought with him to a tailor's workshop in winter. He is laughed at and told that orders...

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Das Stacheltier - Der Wintermantel

1969

Adelsnest

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1979

Ein Mann und seine Frau

0/0

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Ein Mann und seine Frau

1974

Ich war in Honolulu – wetten?

0/0

Uwe is a chemistry student and works as an excavator driver on various construction sites at weekends. One weekend, he meets the nursery nurse Gabi. A...

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Ich war in Honolulu – wetten?

1980

Salz und Brot und gute Laune

0/0

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Salz und Brot und gute Laune