East Berlin Movies

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But...

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

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...

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...

Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a...

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

This film undertakes a journey into the amazing parallel universe of East Berlin’s fashion designers and experts in the art of survival. For,...

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....

East Berlin, 1985. Lars, a young Stasi Lieutenant, discovers his parents are underground smugglers. Now, with his commanding officer over for dinner,...

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.

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

In the early 80's die sozialistische kleiderordnung ( The Socialist Dress Code) in East Berlin is attacked. By black and colourful punks. Youth...

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

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

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...