East Berlin Movies

On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in h...

Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.

Frank, a tenth grade student, falls in love with his classmate Regine. His father is a well-connected plant manager in the GDR; Regine's mother is a s...

Documents the remodeling of the Ostbahnhof in Berlin Friedrichshain into the central station of the GDR.

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany.

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But o...

The documentary tells the story of the reunification from the perspective of six teenagers from East Germany.

This film undertakes a journey into the amazing parallel universe of East Berlin’s fashion designers and experts in the art of survival. For, in the m...

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structu...

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin in 1950.

Live concert filmed on March 4, 1990 at Werner Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin.

In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do...

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There...

A documentary and film essay about the artist scene in East Berlin during the 1950s.

Children's film with animation and live action elements about how the lock in the Spree River works.

Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a jour...

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.