Horst Buder

A fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors. Finally she is forced by the king to marry a beggar. The poor life, hard work and love teach the princess a lesson and turn her into a loving and kind person.

Jean 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 de 14 ans pour ses multiples tentatives d'évasion. À Digne, en raison de ce mandat encombrant et dissuasif, il ne trouve refuge pour la nuit nulle part sauf dans la demeure de Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel, un évêque charitable qui lui offre un nouveau départ. Repenti, sous une autre identité, Jean Valjean va faire fortune en inventant un procédé révolutionnaire en verroterie et va œuvrer pour le bien au détriment de son propre bonheur. Mais ses ambitions humanistes sont réprimées par des hommes de lois comme Javert père et fils ou des malfrats comme Thénardier, vil aubergiste de Montfermeil. En 1848, dans un Paris qui gronde sous la menace de l’insurrection, Jean Valjean doit lutter pour rester un honnête homme.

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider to be a challenge to the state. Just Don't Think I'll Cry became one of twelve films and film projects-almost an entire year's production-that were banned in 1965-1966 due to their alleged anti-socialist aspects. Although scenes and dialogs were altered and the end was reshot twice, officials condemned this title as "particularly harmful." In 1989, cinematographer Ost restored the original version, and this and most of the other banned films were finally screened in January 1990. Belatedly, they were acclaimed as masterpieces of critical realism.

Après 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...

Film by Bärbl Bergmann.

Engineer Strebel′s apprentices think of nothing else but music and dancing, although they should really concentrate on their marks. Consequently, Strebel is anything but delighted with his pupil. To top it all, a TV show becomes interested in a performance by Strebel′s apprentices. To calm down their teacher, Jutta Fröhlich, who has already cast an eye on Strebel, makes him an offer: When they better their marks, Strebel would permit them to make a performance on television.

The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders through the night streets of Berlin and has brief acquaintances.

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.

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.