Staatliche Filmdokumentation

Thomas Heise documents the everyday life of the "People's Police Force" in Berlin Mitte.

Thomas Heise's documentary portrays the meeting of officials and citizens in the district office of Berlin-Mitte in 1984. The movie uniquely displays how socialist officals and citizens interact.

A film about problems in providing the population with housing that meets their needs. Affected citizens and representatives of the responsible state institutions give their views.

Report from the party congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) from April 5 to 7, 1982 in Weimar.

The film shows courtyards in the old Berlin city center that were designed by the residents themselves before the reconstruction. The painter Reinhard Zabka, himself the initiator and protagonist of such actions, talks about his relationship to art and his understanding of its function in the big city. Residents talk about their experiences.

Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985.

The film shows a workday of a garbage truck with garbage men on their tour through Prenzlauer Berg, especially in the area around Kollwitzplatz.

The documentary provides a factual look at the lost and found services of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (the GDR state railway).