East Berlin Movies

In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east - out of love. The teenager has fallen hopelessly...

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

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man....

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 Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a...

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...

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

In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the western part of the city legally as well as...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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....

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

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