Mdr Movies

Berlin, summer 1988: While Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd perform in the West, East Berliners can look forward to Bruce Springsteen, Depeche Mode and...

Altmark is located in the northern part of the German region of Saxony-Anhalt. This area of the country is sparsely populated and rural, and is mostly...

About a journalist and his cameraman visiting East Germany, former GDR, 25 years later again after their journey which took place in January 1990, jus...

Is tradition the highest honor or the greatest misfortune? The village of Pöhla is debating this. Despite the devastating health consequences, mining...

From 1938-1939, the systematic anti-Semitism of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis led to violence and despotism towards Jewish citizens, along with the expl...

When Katja, Henning's girlfriend, is sentenced to prison, he kidnaps the judge to free Katja.

An American of Swedish origin and oil trader, Eric Erickson allegedly maintained business relations with the Nazi regime for the sole purpose of passi...

The Nazi concentration and extermination camps were places of incomprehensible cruelty, misery and death. But even here, creation took place. Creation...

The film explores the only known case in the history of post-WWII era of concentration camp survivors helping the SS Commandant of the Auschwitz and R...

A woman from a big city moves to a small village near the former border zone between East and West Germany. What is she looking for? What will she e...

A documentary that offers an intimate portrait of Guido Westerwelle, Germany’s former Vice-Chancellor, balancing his political career with his groundb...

How has the life of European Union citizens changed since the Maastricht Treaty came into force thirty years ago, on 1 November 1993? Documentary film...

Coal mining has shaped Lusatia for generations. In the GDR it was still an important industrial location but, after the fall of communism, companies s...

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 o...

In May 1989, just a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first "Miss Leipzig" contest was held in Leipzig, a competition that required n...

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

As a test subject in a clinic, the unemployed Dominique takes part in increasingly dangerous tests in order to finance the dream he shares with his gi...

A young man works for a chauffeur company and is given the job of driving the favorite daughter of a Qatari prince who is to undergo an operation in G...