
Film Archive


The funeral of Wilhelm Pieck, who was president of the GDR from 1949 to 1960. Episode of the weekly GDR news programme.

Party secretary Grimmer is part occupational therapist, part employee representative, yet he remains the party secretary.

Invited by the SED district authorities and the council of the district of Leipzig, a group of Leipzig artists visited the newly-built brown coal power plant Thierbach in 1974.

A composition of photos of the Marx-Engels-Forum Berlin from the Fischer-Voigt collection, quotes by Karl Marx ...
In October 1951 Wilhelm Pieck travelled to Czechoslovakia. This short documentary is a kind of public relations account of the journey.

Two silent, black and white pieces of film material, preserved in (standard) 8mm format and screened in a version edited by the Saxon State Archive.

When Soviet cosmonauts toured the GDR yet again in 1977, the propaganda centred on East German space technology.

The 1990 Leipzig spring fair took place at a time of critical junctures for Leipzig, Saxony and Germany.

A propagandistic documentary about the German communist politician Walter Ulbricht.

The school chronicle of a village school teacher from the Altmark – almost four decades of contemporary history and the history of mentalities in Germany.

A narrative documentary which uses rare archive footage to shed light on the life of Rosa Luxemburg.

A short documentary biopic about the German socialist leader Karl Liebknecht.