With excerpts from Goethe's diary, sketches and engravings, this film follows Goethe's Italian Journey through Rome, Naples and Pompeii.
Documentary
Eberhard Esche
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Reparaturbrigade Zementwerk
Sep 07, 1979Documentary
Wie heiratet man einen König
Feb 23, 1969A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever daughter warns him that the king will surely want him to bring a corresponding pestle as well. When the king throws the farmer into jail for fraud, he bemoans the fact that he did not listen to his daughter.
Family
Traces de pierres
Jun 30, 1966L'anarchiste Balla est le roi de son chantier : dur mais généreux. Mais le nouveau secrétaire général du parti veut imposer l'ordre et le droit. Tout deux sont épris de la même femme.
Drama
Denn ich sah eine neue Erde
Aug 28, 1970
Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz
Oct 26, 1974The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from the beginning, the extensively staged “owl”, who is introduced as a criminal and over the course of time, especially due to the influence of the ABV, develops into a good citizen, and incorrigible characters, with whom the ABV fails with its extensive attempts at rehabilitation and who are arrested after having committed again offenses.
Crime
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
Scharnhorst
Nov 03, 1978Drama
Der Spiegel des großen Magus
Feb 06, 1981The evil and powerful King Magus brutally subjugates the people of his kingdom. Anyone who does not want to submit is turned into an animal and locked in a cage. Magus kidnaps the girl Hanna, whom he wants to marry. But Hanna refuses, and her lover, the shepherd Elias, goes to the castle to free her. He learns from Magus' servant Pravos that a mirror gives the king magic power and immortality and that he can only be defeated by water from the Moon Lake. Elijah sets out on his journey to the Moon Lake. Will he withstand the dangers and finally achieve victory over the king? Wrid he be able to free Hanna and the whole kingdom?
Fantasy
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
Der Trinker
Dec 06, 1995Hans Fallada tells in his published after the war novel "The drinker" the story of the agricultural wholesaler Erwin Sommer, who flees from his narrow bourgeois relations under the burdens of the new times in the kingdom of the king alcohol, whose liberty and independence promises prove a lie - the only truth of the alcohol. On behalf of the WDR television play Ulrich Plenzdorf has adapted Fallada's 1944/45 novel for a film adaptation by Tom Toelle with Harald Juhnke in the main role of Erwin Sommer.
Drama
Fleur Lafontaine
Dec 25, 1978Drama
Levins Mühle
Nov 13, 1980In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.
Drama
Die unverbesserliche Barbara
Mar 11, 1977The former athlete Barbara follows her husband to the province and attempts to masters her new life, even after her separation from him.
Drama
Die Räuber
Jun 14, 1967Drama
Der kleine Prinz
May 21, 1972Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.
Fantasy
Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast
Apr 21, 1979
Charlotte Link: Das Haus der Schwestern
Jan 01, 2002
Novalis - Die blaue Blume
Oct 12, 1993Anlauf
Jan 31, 1971
Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
May 31, 1973Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, the line is to be electrified and Platow, who cannot cope with the new technology, has to work on a secondary local line. Georg, his son, a railway worker as well, is to attend a training course, but Georg refuses to go. Then his father comes to a surprising and highly unusual decision. He pretends to be Georg Platow, making himself twenty years younger than he really is and registers for the course.
Comedy
KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle
Mar 25, 1971East 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.
Drama
Till Eulenspiegel
May 23, 1975In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.
Adventure
Leben mit Uwe
Mar 08, 1974Ce film nous conte l'histoire d'une famille, comme beaucoup d'autres, en RDA, celle d'Uwe et d'Alla, sa femme. Uwe est un jeune scientifique qui se trouve à un tournant de sa carrière : il doit défendre sa thèse de doctorat. Or, Alla, qui travaille elle aussi, pense un jour au divorce. Le film aborde les problèmes des rapports dans la famille, la vie du couple et la vie professionnelle et enfin ceux qui peuvent exister dans le milieu du travail.
Drama
Nebel
Mar 14, 1963At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in Rocksmouth, but first, the German envoy has to salvage an old ship wreck. In 1942, the "Princess of India" was supposed to bring children to safety in Canada but was sunk by a German submarine at departure. 58 people were killed, most of them children.
Drama
Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
Oct 14, 1976Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives modestly and is dependent upon private patrons. Nagged by his patronizing brothers, spied upon by officials for his republican beliefs and faced by his progressive hearing loss, the composer becomes more and more isolated. Seeman’s poetic film explores the joys, heartbreak and artistic spirit of the great composer as he works on his Ninth Symphony.
Drama
Mord am Montag
Sep 12, 1968Crime
Carl von Ossietzky
Sep 01, 1963The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).
Drama
Reife Kirschen
Dec 06, 1973Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of a son, the tragic death of his wife, the relationship of his daughter Ingrid with Dr. Beißert coincided with the need to move to an uninhabited area where a nuclear power plant will be built. Kamp, Ingrid and the members of the friendly brigade decide to act as the duty and the feeling of partnership prompts them, and gradually they all become participants in the new construction...
Drama
Somalia - Die große Anstrengung
Jan 20, 1977
Geschichten jener Nacht
Jun 07, 1967Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
Drama
Anna, genannt Humpelbein
Sep 21, 1990Anna, the witch girl, has one short leg and one long leg and is therefore only called the hobble witch. Anna trains until she is far superior to all the others in both running and sneaking races. When she even reaches the end of the world and outwits two clumsy giants who do not want any creature to escape from this terrible place alive, she realises that she can be proud of herself.
Animation
Märkische Forschungen
Apr 21, 1982On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in his car. In the conversation that ensues, Menzel and Pötsch quickly discover that they both are great admirers of the early 19th-century writer Max von Schwedenow who was born in the area.
Drama
Mama ist unmöglich
Nov 22, 1999Family
Drei von der K
Sep 17, 1969Crime
Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria
Dec 27, 1987Love, intrigue, favouritism and corruption at the Dresdner Hof.
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