
Film Archive



The cinematographer Manfred Köhler talks about filming the controlled demolition of the Leipzig university church in 1968.

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 look back at the events of 1968 in Prague from a contemporary Soviet standpoint.

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.

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.


Agriculture in the small town of Laas in the district of Oschatz was held up as an outstanding example in 1987 to spur less successful cooperatives and state-owned farms to higher performances.