L'arbre qui chante
Dec 13, 1957Un prince courageux doit partir à la recherche d'un arbre légendaire, chantant et sonnant, afin de gagner le cœur d'une belle princesse.
Fantasy
Fredy Barten
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Das tapfere Schneiderlein
Sep 27, 1956When Prince Vain got his shirt fixed, he proclaims that he had slain two lizards in front of the tailor's house - "two in one strike". When the tailor swats seven flies at once, he sows himself a banner saying "seven in one strike", and together with his bird he starts a journey into the world to pronounce his deed.
Fantasy
Jungfer, Sie gefällt mir
Mar 20, 1969A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter Ev with the village blacksmith Ruprecht in the hay.
Comedy
Eine schreckliche Frau
Jul 30, 1965
Der Hauptmann von Köln
Dec 07, 1956Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage and becomes the Director of the Montan Corporation, and a member of the West German Parliament. Herr Karjanke, the real Captain, learns of Albert’s ruse, and wants to claim his "rightful" position in Parliament. But Karjanke cannot come forward until his politicking "Doppelganger" succeeds in passing an amnesty law for war criminals. When Albert is finally brought before a judge on charges of fraud, he learns that this own amnesty law does not apply to him.
Comedy
Pole Poppenspäler
Dec 25, 1954On his travels, Paul, a journeyman from northern Germany, runs into a childhood friend, Lisei, a puppeteer's daughter. They fall in love and get married. Together with Lisei's father, the young couple moves to Paul's hometown. Although Paul himself is accepted - even respected - by the stuck-up and snooty citizens, the young woman is rejected by the town dwellers, who are imbued with class arrogance. Paul stands up for his wife but the scorn and abuse heaped on her weigh heavily upon him.
Drama
Der Fall Dr. Wagner
Oct 08, 1954Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If the experiment is successful its a brilliant new invention. But Wagner is the target of sabotage, and all the decisive experiment fails. Wagner can not explain this setback.
Drama
Stärker als die Nacht
Sep 24, 1954The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, imprisoned in a concentration camp and tortured. The Gestapo plans to smash the resistance group around Löning. Despite the imminent threat to his life, Löning, together with his wife, organized the passive resistance of the Hamburg workers against the Hitler regime. In 1944, Löning was again taken and killed.
History
Die Fahrt nach Bamsdorf
Dec 22, 1956Toni and his sister Rita travel alone by train to visit their grandma in Bamsdorf, eight stations down the line...
Adventure
Der fliegende Holländer
Dec 25, 1964In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks refuge in her fantasies and dreams. In this realm of imagination, a bold and restless sea captain appears to her—the Flying Dutchman—who is cursed to wander the seas forever. In her obsessive dreams, Senta frees this man through her love for him.
Music
Heroin
Mar 14, 1968This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot is about French drug dealers, who obtain heroin somewhere in the Middle East, and smuggle it in several steps to East Berlin, and from there to France (or so it appears), killing when necessary. The hero is an officer of East German customs, who with detective work, some masquerade, and occasional violent action ultimately unravels the whole network, of course with the support of the local customs departments.
Crime
Blanche Neige
Oct 05, 1961Après avoir perdu sa mère à sa naissance, la ravissante princesse Blanche-Neige, encore adolescente, voit son père mourir. Sa belle-mère, obsédée par le fait d'être la plus belle femme de toutes, décide de se débarrasser de la trop jolie enfant. L'homme qui devait la tuer ayant pitié d'elle, la pauvre Blanche-Neige, perdue dans la forêt, se retrouve recueillie par les sept nains, des mineurs au grand cœur qui veulent la protéger de sa marâtre...
Fantasy
For Eyes Only - Streng geheim
Jul 19, 1963The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the US Army. For years, espionage, sabotage, and diversion operations originated from here in order to undermine the Socialist Republic of Germany. A favorable moment for a military attack approaches and plans are developed. These plans are placed in the hands of Major Collins, who keeps them in a safe. Hansen has worked for him for many years, but also for the Stasi as a double agent. Security Chief Colonel Rock knows there is a leak, but Hansen has passed every test thrown at him. He is trying to deal with his current assignment: acquiring the plans so they can be made public. His mission is to get them out of the safe and into the GDR without getting caught.
Drama
Solange Leben in mir ist
Sep 09, 1965This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Social Democrat, workers’ leader and a virulent antimilitarist, is one among 110 SPD members of Parliament who vote against approving war loans. From then on, he is considered un-German and a traitor to the fatherland, and his own party’s leadership turns against him. Despite threats, Liebknecht speaks up against the war and writes the manifesto “The Main Enemy Is at Home.” Even when he is arrested and charged with treason, he does not surrender.
Drama
Der Prozeß wird vertagt
Sep 25, 1958Drama
Seine Hoheit – Genosse Prinz
Aug 15, 1969Kasper Mai, an export merchant and comrade with a “clean” record, discovers he is the prince of Hohenlohe-Liebenstein. His royal grandmother designates him as the heir to her estate. A private trip to her reveals that she does not want a NATO airbase built on her land. The GDR and his grandmother thus find a common interest, and a clever lawyer from the East works against other family members looking to settle their debts with the estate money.
Comedy
Das Lied vom Trompeter
Nov 05, 1964Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his friend Alfons, a World War I veteran, gives him a trumpet as a gift, Fritz seems to come closer to fulfil his dream. But then, Fritz realizes that after the end of the German empire workers still have to desperately fight for their rights, and decides to use his instrument for political means: At a meeting of militant workers, he uses his trumpet as a signal horn. But Fritz suffers a severe setback when a comrade dies in the fight for an arms depot because of his fault.
Drama
Papas neue Freundin
Dec 25, 1960Comedy
Les Misérables
Mar 11, 1958Jean Valjean, un paysan condamné à cinq ans de travaux forcés pour avoir volé un pain, sort du bagne de Toulon en 1815 après y avoir passé dix-neuf ans, sa peine initiale ayant été prolongée à cause de ses multiples tentatives d'évasion. Son destin bascule lorsque l'évêque de Digne, Monseigneur Myriel, se dévoue pour lui éviter d'être de nouveau incarcéré à la suite du vol qu'il a perpétré dans sa maison. Dès lors, Jean Valjean va s'évertuer à ne faire que le bien autour de lui au détriment de son propre bonheur.
Drama
Zwei Mütter
Jun 28, 1957The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.
War
Der Mord, der nie verjährt
Jan 11, 1968
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Nov 15, 1963Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against the Nazi criminal Eichmann. Disgusted by the monstrosities that are revealed, she eventually returns to Germany. There, she wants to cover common cases and trials again. Her first assignment is a murder trial against a man called Ralf Jordan who constantly maintains his innocence. Conradi, who believes Jordan and wants to help him, starts to investigate the case - and thus opens up a political can of worms. The backgrounds of the case reach back to the Nazi period and involve officials of the Third Reich, who in the meantime have returned to their powerful positions.
Drama
Kapitäne bleiben an Bord
Feb 27, 1959Adventure
Wer seine Frau lieb hat
Feb 10, 1955Comedy
Die Meere rufen
Dec 14, 1951Drama
Sein großer Sieg
Aug 07, 1952Drama
Люди и звери
Nov 02, 1962The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
Drama
Der Fall Dr. Wagner
Oct 08, 1954Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If the experiment is successful its a brilliant new invention. But Wagner is the target of sabotage, and all the decisive experiment fails. Wagner can not explain this setback.
Drama
Der geteilte Himmel
Oct 02, 1964After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappointment in the face of official rejection; how he escaped to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built and hoped that she would follow him …
Drama
Fernsehpitaval
Jun 04, 1978Crime
