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- The Sandman's everyday life, travels and fantastic adventures. The character often showcased socialist technological achievements, such as the use of awe-inspiring vehicles like futuristic cars and flying devices.
- Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.
- A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are news reporters and tourists from all over the world taking pictures, children selling pieces of the wall to passers-by, and people celebrating New Year's Eve, on the other we see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks on their faces.
- An interview with former Nazi and mercenary Siegfried Müller about his life and war campaigns.
- A 74-year-old man is standing in front of the Dresden district court. After more than forty years, the former highly decorated SS man was brought to the scene of his crimes. The process is the cinematic framework in which the background and mechanisms of the social system of nationalism are revealed by retracing the social development of this SS man.
- The most comprehensive documentation of events surrounding the 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany. The film team finally got the permission of the state-owned film studio to document these historic events on October 16, 1989 and filmed until the fall of the Berlin Wall. With their heavy 35mm camera equipment, they were the only professional team filming in Leipzig. The film includes interviews with demonstrators, members of the citizens' rights movement, officials and bystanders in East Germany's peaceful revolution.
- Orpheus in the underworld.
- Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie features young people using music to express their take on life, opposition to their parents' generation and opinions on the social and political climate in East Germany. It includes clips from concerts and interviews with fans and members of various bands, such as Feeling B's Christian Lorenz and Paul Landers, now members of Rammstein. This documentary, shot in 35mm, played to over one million viewers in sold-out theaters in East Germany. Audiences were drawn not only to see their favorite bands on the screen; they were also surprised that this film made it past the censors.
- Using almost completely positive clips from East German film archives, this deadpan documentary presents a history of the forty years of the former DDR.
- A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary." - Elke Schieber, film historian
- A consciously modern depiction of working women in East Germany - labourers and managers in a garment factory talk about relationships and family planning, raising children and career qualifications, women's rights and equality in the socialist (meritocratic) society. In conversations with a doctor, the women also have a chance to voice their personal concerns, as well as their feelings about the birth control pill, a subject that caused a stir at the time.
- Friendship, fun and contemplation characterize the lives of a group of twenty-year-olds who spend their summer vacation in Prerow on the Baltic Sea. In brief interviews, they discuss their past achievements, future plans, dreams and perspectives. The conflict between the impending, serious future and their carefree, colorful lives comes to a head in this film, which reflects the attitude towards life in the 1960's, complete with games, parties, and guitar-playing on the beach.
- Depicts the Bulgarian born filmmaker Slatan Dudow's (1903-1963) life and work in exile, painting a detailed picture of the Marxist artist. It includes many clips from Dudow's early films, including Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World (1932), which was banned by the Nazis.
- Our Children is a documentary about different youth groups found in the GDR, particularly the young anti-Fascist group. Different young people are interviewed about their coming to terms with their history, country and society. Christa Wolf and Stefan Heym are among those interviewed.
- Several centuries-old villages south of Leipzig are being razed to the ground for the sake of open-pit coal mines. The director follows the project for over 3 years as lives are uprooted and landscapes are destroyed.
- A small crew films Leipzig 89-90. They interview factory workers, young people, a former journalist, a Redskin and others. These individuals share their thoughts about the reunification, its consequences and their plans for the future.
- Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists presented works rarely shown in the GDR.
- At the first German meeting, which took place in Berlin in 1950, domestic and foreign delegations expressed their desire for global peace. Particular emphasis was placed on the participation of a West German delegation, who, alongside young people from the GDR, demonstrated their desire for a unified Germany, among other things.
- After a few years of separation a young Russian girl Olga comes to New York to reunite with her boyfriend Sasha who defected from his ballroom dance team at the International competition.
- A documentary about the life and work of Jannis Ritsos (1909-1990), one of the most important Greek poets.
- The film begins in Peredelkino, a reunion of Konrad Wolf after decades with the unforgettable world of childhood in his second home, the Soviet Union. The former summer house of the emigrated poet Friedrich Wolf's family still stands not far from Moscow. His son Konrad, called Koni, the younger of the two brothers, paid another visit there in October 1981, shortly before his death.
- About the scenic work on Bertolt Brecht's plays on the stage of the "Berliner Ensemble". In addition, photos, film reviews and excerpts from theater performances around the world are skilfully assembled and commented on in detail, bringing us closer to the life's work of Bertolt Brecht and his wife Helene Weigel in an understanding way. Impressive scenes by the great actress and director of the Berlin ensemble Helene Weigel alternate with the tireless creativity of Bertolt Brecht.