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In the so-called global age, a man is caught in the trap of time that he has set for himself and got stuck in it together with his freedom. Film...

Romantic art was a response to the social upheavals of the 19th century, as shown by works by its emblematic painters Friedrich, Venetsianov and...

Between love madness, scandals, intrigue and happiness - the stories of German princesses on the Russian tzar's throne were shaped by strokes of...

The queer community has long since established itself in large cities, but in rural areas, queer people live less publicly. And when they do, worlds...

Four female politicians with East German backgrounds - Anke Domscheit-Berg, Manuela Schwesig, Yvonne Magwas and Frauke Petry - analyse German history...

In 1985, pupils in the GDR were asked to write an essay on how they imagined life in the year 2010. What happened to the dreams?

On average, every European eats almost 66 kilograms of meat per year. But do we actually know exactly where our meat comes from and what journey it...

Former East Germany, punk music, the wall, betrayal, jail, exit for the West: a film confronting these things on the offensive – and seeing its...

Eight years after the first cinematic encounter with right-wing extremist youths in Halle Neustadt, Thomas Heise revisits the protagonists and their...

In Germany and Russia, people drink the same amount of pure alcohol: ten liters per capita per year. Two Germans and two Russians are...

Documentary about singer Sanije Torka, the model for the 1980 DEFA film "Solo Sunny" by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase.

Dumitru Stanciu is one of the last mountain shepherds of Europe. As his forefathers did for thousands of years, in summer as in winter he and his...

When aviation pioneers crossed the Alps for the first time a good 80 years ago, flying was still a frontier experience. The film does the same as...

On October 9, 1967, the news went around the world: Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara was dead. Shot dead in the forests of...

The Lusatian mining district and the former "socialist residential town" of Hoyerswerda form the backdrop for the biography of Gerhard Gundermann,...