East Berlin Movies

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government...

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

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

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

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...

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall....

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in...

East Berlin disco movie.

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...

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

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

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

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a...

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

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

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...

Documentary about a youth work brigade working on the construction of a tower block in Berlin-Marzahn

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

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