East Berlin Movies

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

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...

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

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

A lifeguard at Lake Müggel has his hand bitten off and the marks indicate a shark attack. The lake is closed to the public by extending a local...

Documents the remodeling of the Ostbahnhof in Berlin Friedrichshain into the central station of the GDR.

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do...

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...

Frank, a tenth grade student, falls in love with his classmate Regine. His father is a well-connected plant manager in the GDR; Regine's mother is a...

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...

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

1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent...

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...

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

East German documentary/propaganda film about Berlin Wall border guards