TRANSIT

In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Germany in 1968 to live in the DDR but killed himself eight months after.

Auf der Oder

Wir Ostdeutsche - 30 Jahre im vereinten Land

Karl Marx City

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East Germany, as Epperlein investigates her father’s 1999 suicide and the possibility that he may have worked as a spy for the dreaded Stasi security service.

Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification.

OstPunk! Too much Future

Tells the story of punk in the GDR.

Brigada - Ein Beitrag zur Solidarität anläßlich der 16. Arbeiterfestspiele 1976 in Dresden

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the Unidad Popular during Salvador Allende's reign. Festival guests comment on this work. Music by Chilean music group Jaspampa, formed in Leipzig in 1972.

Verliebt, verlobt, verloren

Erzähle deine Geschichte - Die DDR in 30 Begriffen

Märkische Gesellschaft mbH

In late 1990 times are changing in Zehdenick, Brandenburg: Russian troops are leaving, the German Reunification brings euphoria and new hope, but unemployment rises steadily.

Countdown To 1990 : La Réunification de l'Allemagne

An deutschen Tischen

Documentation about the intra-German relations after the reunification.

Whispers of Freedom

When Chris Gueffroy becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life in 1980s East Germany, he hatches a plan with his friend, Christian Gaudian, to escape the isolated Eastern bloc state without telling his mother, Karin. The pair believe that the standing order to shoot anyone who crosses the Berlin Wall, as ordered by the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, Erich Honecker, has been lifted due to the state visit of Swedish PM Ingvar Carlsson. The young men seize their chance and attempt the fateful escape to the west.

Poker um die Deutsche Einheit - Wurde Russland in der NATO-Frage getäuscht?

Erzähle Deine Geschichte - Vom Mauerfall bis heute

Wende im Eis - Die Geschichte der letzten DDR-Antarktisforscher

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they returned in the spring of 1991, their homeland was a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.

Wall of Chaos

Der größte Geldtransport der Geschichte - Wie die D-Mark in den Osten kam

Die Zeit meines Lebens - Dirty Dancing in Ost und West

Kalter Krieg der Konzerte - Wie Bruce Springsteen den Osten rockte