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- The Sandman's everyday life, travels and fantastic adventures. The character often showcased socialist technological achievements, such as the use of awe-inspiring vehicles like futuristic cars and flying devices.
- An interview with former Nazi and mercenary Siegfried Müller about his life and war campaigns.
- Orpheus in the underworld.
- Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.
- A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are news reporters and tourists from all over the world taking pictures, children selling pieces of the wall to passers-by, and people celebrating New Year's Eve, on the other we see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks on their faces.
- Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie features young people using music to express their take on life, opposition to their parents' generation and opinions on the social and political climate in East Germany. It includes clips from concerts and interviews with fans and members of various bands, such as Feeling B's Christian Lorenz and Paul Landers, now members of Rammstein. This documentary, shot in 35mm, played to over one million viewers in sold-out theaters in East Germany. Audiences were drawn not only to see their favorite bands on the screen; they were also surprised that this film made it past the censors.
- This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names- there are no interviews. The women are presented simply as workers: cooking, cleaning, hauling, and serving dishes amid clanking pots and hot steam.
- The tragic love story between 17 year-old Gerat Lauter, who is in search of the truth, and his much older teacher Claudia, as it becomes a criminal case with state complicity in the chaotic GDR autumn of 1989.
- Our Children is a documentary about different youth groups found in the GDR, particularly the young anti-Fascist group. Different young people are interviewed about their coming to terms with their history, country and society. Christa Wolf and Stefan Heym are among those interviewed.
- At the first German meeting, which took place in Berlin in 1950, domestic and foreign delegations expressed their desire for global peace. Particular emphasis was placed on the participation of a West German delegation, who, alongside young people from the GDR, demonstrated their desire for a unified Germany, among other things.
- A documentary about the life and work of Jannis Ritsos (1909-1990), one of the most important Greek poets.
- A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours of few shunters at the shunting-station Dresden-Friedrichstadt, which was the largest such station in all of the former German Democratic Republic. They work day and night, amidst snow and fog at the railway tracks, speaking only as much as necessary.
- A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary." - Elke Schieber, film historian
- A small crew films Leipzig 89-90. They interview factory workers, young people, a former journalist, a Redskin and others. These individuals share their thoughts about the reunification, its consequences and their plans for the future.
- A 74-year-old man is standing in front of the Dresden district court. After more than forty years, the former highly decorated SS man was brought to the scene of his crimes. The process is the cinematic framework in which the background and mechanisms of the social system of nationalism are revealed by retracing the social development of this SS man.
- Two soldiers in the Second World War stare out at us from a photo: one of them is crying in despair, the other is standing proud and tall and wearing a medal. They are boys - child soldiers - and their photos appeared all over the world as synonyms for Hitler's "last reserves." This film tells the story of what happened to these fifteen-year-old, one from the East and one from the West, after they survived the war.
- This film documents the well-known story of Anne Frank, whose family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Eventually caught, Frank was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she later died. The film goes on to explore the concentration camp in detail- the procedures and methods of the camp's commanding officers, and the atrocities the Nazis committed. Shockingly, many of the officers went on to retain their freedom, and lead relatively normal lives, often receiving support from the German government.
- Using almost completely positive clips from East German film archives, this deadpan documentary presents a history of the forty years of the former DDR.
- The film begins in Peredelkino, a reunion of Konrad Wolf after decades with the unforgettable world of childhood in his second home, the Soviet Union. The former summer house of the emigrated poet Friedrich Wolf's family still stands not far from Moscow. His son Konrad, called Koni, the younger of the two brothers, paid another visit there in October 1981, shortly before his death.