Mdr Movies

An empty, undefined world. Gabriela (70) is seriously ill. By all means she tries to keep alive, to escape from her own death. In her suppressed and r...

Until now, spoiled Vicky has always got through life by relying on the name of her father, who is an influential winegrower. After losing her job at a...

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

Christmas 1989 is a very special time in the GDR. Many GDR citizens 'crossed over' for the first time to collect welcome money and go shopping. Many W...

In 2013, Ukrainians rose up against their pro-Russian president, who ruled out any possibility of closer ties with the European Union. We look back at...

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the iso...

In 1987, colour slides were found in a second hand book store in Vienna which turned out to be a collections of photographs taken in the Lodz ghetto b...

Uncleared roads, frozen pipes, district heating breakdowns: winter regularly posed problems for the GDR leadership. From the mid-1960s, the GDR leader...

Hannes Schönemann reconstructs the story of his love affair with the Danish communist Julia Szaba a decade after her suicide.

In the early summer of 1990, the Treuhandanstalt was founded to privatize the "state-owned" companies of the GDR. In the four years that followed, aro...

The Olsen Gang from Würchwitz want to uncover a secret that has kept researchers, treasure hunters and soldiers of fortune in suspense since the end o...

This documentary celebrates the spirit of freedom and joie de vivre of the Clara Mosch artist collec-tive. Starting in the late 1970s, these non-confo...

Less than two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Udo Lindenberg's first GDR tour starts in Suhl on January 6, 1990. The cheers in the "Stadthal...

In 1981, the Supreme Court of the GDR imposed a death sentence for the last time. On June 26, 1981, it was carried out in Leipzig - the Stasi officer...

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...

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the history of women in motor sport.