Hans Joachim Schölermann
1890 - 1969Hotelboy Ed Martin
Karl-Heinz Bieber, Ernst Kahler
Ulrich Thein, Katharina Matz
Захватывающий кинодетектив студии DEFA из американской жизни был снят по пьесе Альберта Мальца. Слуга отеля Эд Мартин является свидетелем убийства закулисного политического брокера Странски и идентифицирует его убийцу Зелли. Однако Зелли забрал у жертвы документы, что ставит под угрозу лидеров политической организации. Полиция освобождает Зелли из-за угрозы публикации этих документов. Однако дело уже было опубликовано в прессе, и поскольку исход предстоящих выборов во многом зависит от быстрого осуждения Странски, полиция находит «суррогатного» убийцу Эда Мартина. Избитый до смерти, он признается в совершении преступления, но позже отказывается от показаний. Тем временем он находит друзей, которые хотят его защитить…
Hotelboy Ed Martin
52 Wochen sind ein Jahr
Richard Groschopp
Lotte Loebinger, Kurt Oligmüller
Krestan Serbin, a 64-year-old Sorbian farm-worker, considers himself non-political. He owns a few acres, a few pigs and a cow, and intends to pass all this on to his daughter Lena. Lena, however, shows only little interest. Krestan’s situation becomes more difficult when he is meant to become integrated into the agricultural production cooperative. He even gets offered a position as Training Supervisor. Although Krestan does not oppose the new policy, he is unwilling to surrender his properties. When the political die-hards who intend to hinder the progressive movement try to win him over, Krestan realizes that it is time to show colours.
52 Weeks Make A Year
Die Sonnenbrucks
Georg C. Klaren
Eduard von Winterstein, Maly Delschaft
Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already enough for him. But after the war Sonnenrbruck gets into a conflict of conscience. He thought that science was finally free of politics again only to find the opposite happening at his university in Göttingen. A medical congress in the GDR brings him together with Peters, who is working on a major research contract there. Sonnenbruck decides to visit Peters.
The Sonnenbrucks
Die Buntkarierten
Kurt Maetzig
Camilla Spira, Werner Hinz
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and family work in tandem to face the tragedies of war, economic hardship and death.
Girls in Gingham
Der Rat der Götter
Kurt Maetzig
Fritz Tillmann, Paul Bildt
Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. The chemist Dr. Hans Scholz lives through a tortuous political transformation and maturation process. Eventually, he adopts political neutrality and closes his eyes to the fact that the poison being produced in his factory is being used in the extermination camps. Standing before the judges at the Nuremberg trials, he must face the fact that he is implicated in the deaths of millions in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.
Council of the Gods
Irrtum des Herzens
Alfred Stöger
Paul Hartmann, Leny Marenbach
On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, Sister Angelika bids her boss, Professor Reimers, farewell, for she has quit her post. Reimers doesn’t understand the reason for this and since she won’t say a word as to why she’s quit, he asks her to spend the evening with him and his son Konrad. Konrad, however, wanted to take advantage of the holiday to bring his divorced parents back together and sends Angelika packing as soon as she reaches the house. Disappointed and sad, she drives to the airport to meet Captain van Santen, who also invited her to spend the holiday.
Irrtum des Herzens
Frauenschicksale
Slatan Dudow
Sonja Sutter, Lotte Loebinger
Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny.
Destinies of Women
Das Traumschiff
Herbert Ballmann
Gisela Uhlen, Günther Simon
The two half-orphans Reni and Rolf are 13 and 10 years old and they live with their grandmother in Berlin. Their father has died during the war, their mother works at a Baltic Sea port. Here she meets a captain who wants to marry her. When their mother tells them about the planned wedding, Reni and Rolf are reluctant to meet the captain.
Das Traumschiff
Damals
Rolf Hansen
Zarah Leander, Hans Stüwe
Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
Damals
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Erich Freund
Claus Holm, Inge Keller
After Jochen saves police officer Erich's life, the two men become close friends and Erich helps Jochen get a job working for Berlin's local train system. But Jochen falls into the hands of the beautiful West Berlin agent Ellen, who convinces him to participate in acts of sabotage against the trains. All of a sudden, Jochen is making a lot more money and even Erich's former girlfriend Inge becomes interested in him. But everything begins to unravel when Erich observes his friend's illegal activity on one of his nightly rounds.
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