Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen der DDR

A satire about a West Berlin commercial producer with an East German background. To stave off his company’s bankruptcy and collect a second round of Western aid money, he “repeats” his flight from East Berlin – on, of all days, November 9, 1989.

Short film about foreign affairs

A little everyday story about a man, his wife, her father, an old friend, and a few scenes from the unspectacular lives of ordinary people. Shot in a Berlin apartment with its authentic interior, the cinematic chamber play comically tells the story of the end of a marriage.

Young man follows his sister everywhere with video camera and microphone and also accompanies her when she contact with men.

A railway line is to be laid through remote Lusatian farmland. Surveyors herald the “new era” with their work. The events also leave their mark on the people. Stylistically idiosyncratic first feature film by a director who comes from documentary film. The story is told as a parable about the relationship between humans and progress, with the actors making extremely clever use of their freedom.

A wounded Soviet soldier is kept hidden by his wife in their home for 26 months. He hopes to survive the war in this way. Too late, they both realize the error of their ways.

17-year-old Ramona comes from a home in Berlin to a small village and introduces herself as the baker's daughter. Neither of them knew anything about each other. Laconic images of the dreariness of the East German provinces show the excessive demands on the long-married baker and the mutual speechlessness of daughter and father.

The film documents the hard work in the Frank-Behrendt coal business.

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive communist from the Weimar Republic to his death in 1985.

Student film about hiding Jews during the Second World War.

In 1954, the "Automat Imbiss" opened on Alexanderplatz. With its compartments from which meals could be taken in exchange for coins, it corresponded to the ideas of modernity and the future at that time. Twenty years later, when Thomas Heise shot his film, the snack bar had long since lost its showcase character. With a sober eye, he documents its everyday routines.

Documentary short about Husemannstraße in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg.

The director documents the working and living conditions of assembly workers on the "Nordlicht" natural gas pipeline. Like the "Drushba pipeline," this pipeline was one of the major projects of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), and many workers, especially young East German workers, were involved in its completion. Good pay and the hope of a less regimented life were the main attractions.

A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert.

A documentary portrait of the everyday life of teenagers in Mecklenburg.

Using photos and letters that the director found in a landfill, she reconstructs in her documentary film the life of Maria Bartel, a Berlin baker born in 1902 who, as the director comments in voice-over, "was in the prime of her life during fascism." In 1920, she moved from the East Prussian province to Berlin with her first husband. After his suicide, she opened a bakery, which she ran until the end of the war in 1945, raised her son, and now has various relationships and love affairs.

The director describes the everyday life of a little boy who, as a "latchkey kid," has to spend the afternoon alone until his father finally comes home in the evening. The mother, for whom the boy makes a letter the following day, seems to have left the family.