Movies

At the age of 18, Johann Sebastian Bach was ordered to Arnstadt to test the functionality and quality of a new organ. At the same time, as a musician...

Rainer Burmeister (director) tells a story about everyday working life of 46 young Mozambican people in the GDR who were employed as contract...

Eleven-year-old Jella lives with her mother in a rural idyll in which both feel at home and comfortable. Then, however, they move to the city where...

Ten-year-old Lutz Paschke, son of detective captain Paschke, is an enthusiastic but often overzealous detective. He roams his town with his basset...

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This...

Documentary about a youth work brigade working on the construction of a tower block in Berlin-Marzahn

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with...

Documentary film footage of ground personnel starting the propeller of an American B-17 bomber is repeated in a tightly edited, rhythmic structure....

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

This bullet is stamped with the inscription 'Remington Peters 12' and yet is not mentioned in Remington's catalogue. It consists of 20 small steel...

1929: The little girl Józia has to go a few days without her mother, who is traveling abroad for political reasons. Another story is told to...

A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against...

The director of an art museum in Thuringia and an art dealer from Constance entered into an extremely lucrative business relationship. Director...