Movies

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

Seven ill-fated strangers find themselves trapped on an old blue bus that has fallen under the curse of a vengeful infant deity.

Actions in West Germany against the occupation statute and the general war treaties.

Protests in Hasselbach in the Hunsrück Mountains against the deployment of 96 Cruise Missiles.

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...

A service is ordered by the Junta in praise of the Junta. The Cardinal, forced to utter Benedictions, resorts to words for all those who suffer and...

At the beginning of the Second World War, Czech music student Honsik comes to Germany from Prague to join a "foreign worker company". After rescuing...

In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman,...

Rhythms of technology determine our everyday lives. Rhythms determine the character of the music of our time: jazz. Do we find the rhythms of...

This documentary is about the crimes of the former Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War, Dr. Theodor Oberländer,...

Teacher Ellen is fed up with her lame partner and colleague Horst. He teaches with such complacency! Ellen is different, she wants to inspire her...

The film tells the well-known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, in which the little girl Little Red Riding Hood is led astray by the wolf, devoured...

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to West Germany and came back. This film...

The story of the Grünthal peasants' uprising against the commander who oppresses and exploits them.

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This...

Ten-year-old Lutz Paschke, son of detective captain Paschke, is an enthusiastic but often overzealous detective. He roams his town with his basset...

In the crisis-ridden Germany of the 1920s, the desperate Frieda Hausmann pretends to be her deceased husband Wilhelm so that she can support her...

Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck