An animation in praise of the Deutsche Mark as the solid currency to be trusted.
Film Archive

Footage that was officially not supposed to exist. A find from the Saxon State Archive.

Episode from a series of animated films about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution.

Episode from a series of animated films about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution: Erich Mielke.

A century after his death, people from 20 different countries visit the grave of the philosopher Karl Marx.

Even without arms the hero of this film is a passionate skier and high board diver – and a brilliant painter, too.

The war made Srđan Keča discover facets of his father he didn’t know. After the latter’s death, he sets out to find traces of those hidden, suppressed traits.

With his shovel-like hands the Silesian miner Bernard Bugdoł became a working class hero and the great white hope of the new socialist Poland of the 1950s.

Occupier or liberator? Estonian and Russian nationalists are locked in a bitter dispute about the Soviet soldier memorial in Tallinn. Meelis Muhu captures how it is being passed on to the next generation and how it can erupt in the heat of the moment.


In response to the arrest of the philosopher and activist Angela Davis, the French writer Jean Genet read a text denouncing the US justice system.

Re-enactments (complete with ideological background) of current events in the GDR for FRG television.

Photo: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft | About the reconstruction of Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen factory.