
Film Archive



The border town of Frankfurt on the Oder is portrayed as symbolising central issues of a design of society and the state under socialist auspices.

A documentary solemnity on the occasion of the erection of the Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park.

One of the most controversial documentaries ever. The core of this film is a long interview with the infamous West German mercenary Siegfried Müller.

Heynowski and Scheumann buy a complete Waffen-SS uniform (including an Auschwitz badge) from West German militaria dealers.

A filmic act of state on the first anniversary of the GDR. Peaceful reconstruction on this side, preparations for a new war on the other.

A portrait of the sculptor Fritz Cremer, dominated by his bronze group of figures in memory of the resistance fight in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

An attempt to understand what made the almost eighty-year-old Tilbert Eckertz hold on to communism. Eckertz worked as a business journalist in the GDR.

Documentary film advice on the GDR antifascist culture of remembrance – and how to explain it, for example, to foreign guests.

The period leading up to the political turnaround as it presented itself at a snack bar. Media and reality have less and less to do with each other.

The travelling exhibition “Agents, Spies, Saboteurs Exposed” about the actions of FRG spies and infiltrated saboteurs on GDR territory, condensed in a film.

A portrait of predominantly West German mercenaries in the Congo. A GDR film. The revelation that the commanders were former Wehrmacht officers, was dismissed as propaganda in the FRG.

Spring, 1988. Brick burners speak frankly about their working conditions.

About the construction of Stalinstadt and the Iron Works Combine East.

A mass in the Church of National Thanksgiving, ordered by the Pinochet government just after the coup in Chile in September 1973.