Swetlana Schönfeld

Melanie van der Straaten

Thomas Langhoff

Laurence Calame, Kurt Böwe

Der Mexikaner Felipe Rivera

Edgar Kaufmann

Hartmut Schreier, Arnim Mühlstädt

Die Bombe tickt

Thorsten Näter

Wilfried Dziallas, Peter Ebert

Abgehauen

Frank Beyer

Peter Lohmeyer, Karoline Eichhorn

The movie tells a true story in the life of well-known German actor Manfred Krug. Living in the German Democratic Republic he is forced to leave the country after protesting against the expatriation of singer/songwriter Wolf Biermann in 1976.

Sonjas Rapport

Bernhard Stephan

Györgyi Tarján, Hartmut Puls

Film by Bernhard Stephan.

Unternehmen Geigenkasten

Gunter Friedrich

Alexander Heidenreich, Dirk Bartsch

Ten-year-old Ole is full of mischief. He attempts to fly and is hospitalized with a broken leg. When he sees a Sherlock Holmes movie on TV, however, he forgets about the pains and comes up with a new plan. Disguised as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, he and his friend Andreas start searching for criminals. Soon, the two boys detect their first case. On the street they meet a man wearing a stuck-on beard. The hobby detectives find this very suspicious and decide to follow him.

The Invisibles

Claus Räfle

Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."

Sabine Wulff

Erwin Stranka

Karin Düwel, Manfred Ernst

Sabine Wulff is almost 18 when she is released from the juvenile detention center. She doesn't want to return to her unsupportive parents or to her former boyfriend Jimmy, who got her into trouble by persuading her to steal cigarettes. She instead chooses to begin an honest life by getting a job and renting her own room.

Das Land hinter dem Regenbogen

Herwig Kipping

Franciszek Pieczka, Winfried Glatzeder

A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.

Landschaft mit Dornen

Bernd Böhlich

Ben Becker, Sven Martinek

Big Girls Don't Cry

Maria von Heland

Anna Maria Mühe, Karoline Herfurth

Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they're both 17 and enjoying the ups and downs of becoming adults together. While Kati's parents are religious and conservative, but argue constantly, Steffi comes from what appears to be a harmonious and liberal family. But the girls discover how quickly their attractive world can fall apart when, at a hip nightclub, they happen to see Steffi's father in the arms of another woman. Steffi is shocked, her trust in her small perfect world shaken to the core. She can only think of one thing: revenge.

Und der Zukunft zugewandt

Bernd Böhlich

Alexandra Maria Lara, Robert Stadlober

A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for the sake of her and her family’s freedom.

Hälfte des Lebens

Herrmann Zschoche

Ulrich Mühe, Jenny Gröllmann

This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, played by a young Ulrich Mühe.

Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell

Christa Mühl

Dieter Mann, Swetlana Schönfeld

Lotta & der Ernst des Lebens

Florian Gärtner

Josefine Preuß, Kostja Ullmann

Flammen im Paradies

Markus Imhoof

Élodie Bouchez, Heinz Bühlmann

On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to meet her future husband, a missionary in India. The women decide to swap roles...