Walter Lendrich

Hotelboy 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…

Im Sonderauftrag

Heinz Thiel

Hans-Peter Minetti, Rolf Ludwig

Возвращавшийся с учения военный корабль получил задание задержать неизвестную шхуну, нарушившую территориальные воды ГДР. И хотя при обыске на судне ничего противозаконного не нашли, у командира корабля Фишера вызвал подозрение хозяин шхуны Арендт - бывший лейтенант береговой фашистской батареи. Сомнения Фишера подтвердились, когда на борт шхуны поднялся водолаз, фотографировавший под водой военный объект. Расследование показало, что задержанная шхуна шла с диверсионными целями, выяснилась также и «деятельность» Арендта, бывшего оберштурмфюрера гестапо.

Gefährliche Fracht

Gustav von Wangenheim

Willy A. Kleinau, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

Американские военные приготовления целиком сконцентрированы в Западной Европе. В результате чего происходят постоянные поставки оружия западноевропейским странам. В одном из маленьких французских портовых городов корабль "Чикаго" с американским флагом не разгружается. У него на борту находится опасный груз-напалмовые бомбы. Французские докеры бастовали 3 месяца. Это была ожесточённая борьба, но они победили. Теперь в американской главной квартире во Франкфурте-на-Майне решается вопрос в какой гавани "Чикаго" освободится от своего груза...

Eine Handvoll Noten

Helmut Spieß, Otto Schneidereit

Angela Brunner, Günther Simon

Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plans: As a passionate trumpeter, he wants to study music in Berlin. His father is less than thrilled and wants his son to take over the bakery. Therefore, Andreas decides to try his luck in Berlin and starts working in a wholesale bakery together with his friend Paul. Incidentally, the in-house band is looking for a trumpeter.

Der Fremde

Johannes Arpe

Günther Grabbert, Harry Hindemith

Des Henkers Bruder

Walter Beck

Fred Delmare, Brigitte Krause

Star-Crossed Lovers

Frank Beyer

Armin Mueller-Stahl, Annekathrin Bürger

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is sentenced to fifteen years in a concentration camp. Magdalena, meanwhile, goes underground with the help of a friend and later immigrates to the Soviet Union. Michael, who has joined the Red Army, discovers on the way to Moscow that Magdalena is staying there. But when his plane lands, she is already on her way back to Germany. Michael hopes that one day, he and Magdalena will be reunited.

Die Unbesiegbaren

Arthur Pohl

Willy A. Kleinau, Alice Treff

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.

The Rabbit Is Me

Kurt Maetzig

Angelika Waller, Alfred Müller

The Rabbit Is Me was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. In it, a young student has an affair with a judge who once sentenced her brother for political reasons; she eventually confronts him with his opportunism and hypocrisy. It is a sardonic portrayal of the German Democratic Republic's judicial system and its social implications. The film was banned by officials as an anti-socialist, pessimistic and revisionist attack on the state. It henceforth lent its name to all the banned films of 1965, which became known as the "Rabbit Films." After its release in 1990, The Rabbit Is Me earned critical praise as one of the most important and courageous works ever made in East Germany. It was screened at The Museum of Modern Art in 2005 as part of the film series Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany.

Die Fahne von Kriwoj Rog

Kurt Maetzig

Erwin Geschonneck, Marga Legal

In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kriwoj Rog, Russia, give their flag as a gift to the locals of Bergstedt, Germany. This quickly takes on a symbolic meaning for the miners in Bergstedt as the Nazi party demands that this Soviet gesture be erased and the flag be replaced with their own. The miner and communist party functionary Otto Brosowski (Erwin Geschonneck) publicly declares it his duty to defend this flag against every danger, and he keeps his promise despite his family being threatened by torment and torture.

Brot und Rosen

Horst E. Brandt, Heinz Thiel

Günther Simon, Harry Hindemith

Film by Thiel and Brandt.

Weil ich dich liebe …

Helmut Brandis, Hans Kratzert

Ursula Werner, Marita Böhme

Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His research colleagues are less than thrilled about his ideas and modification proposals. Thus, the pretty and confident veterinarian Sabine Ladenbach becomes his only ally and soon they fall in love with each other. When Thiessen’s wife Eva notices that her husband is growing away from her, she starts to fight for him. Eventually, Thiessen realizes that Eva is the woman of his life, both privately and professionally. At the same time, he figures out that he needs the support of his team to achieve success in his field.

Ware für Katalonien

Richard Groschopp

Eva-Maria Hagen, Wilfried Ortmann

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When national demand rises strongly and at the same time the export to South America heavily decreases, the Volkspolizei - the GDR police force - starts to look into the case. Two seemingly unrelated cases are the starting point for the investigation by second lieutenant Schellenberg of the department for optics racketeering: An old woman who was arrested in the Berlin city railway for trying to smuggle a pair of binoculars to West Berlin, and a dead person in an area of allotments who was involved in obscure dealings with optical devices.

Der Dritte

Egon Günther

Jutta Hoffmann, Barbara Dittus

In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out, and one lesbian friendship which she retains. She is looking for a husband, though, and thinks she has spotted a candidate in her fellow factory worker. As she contemplates marrying him, her story is told in a series of flashbacks.

Der verlorene Engel

Ralf Kirsten

Fred Düren, Erika Pelikowsky

August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach (Fred Düren). Barlach lives in the small town of Güstrow, keeping to himself and wanting to steer clear of politics. On this day he learns that the Nazis have dragged his famous 1927 sculpture The Hovering Angel out of the Güstrow Cathedral. Barlach begins to reflect on his life of “inner emigration” and on his work.

KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle

Horst E. Brandt

Horst Drinda, Irma Münch

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.