East Berlin Movies

A lifeguard at Lake Müggel has his hand bitten off and the marks indicate a shark attack. The lake is closed to the public by extending a local...

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany.

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in...

East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a...

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do...

This film undertakes a journey into the amazing parallel universe of East Berlin’s fashion designers and experts in the art of survival. For,...

In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east - out of love. The teenager has fallen hopelessly...

1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent...

Live concert filmed on March 4, 1990 at Werner Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin.

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.

The documentary tells the story of the reunification from the perspective of six teenagers from East Germany.

A documentary and film essay about the artist scene in East Berlin during the 1950s.

Documents the remodeling of the Ostbahnhof in Berlin Friedrichshain into the central station of the GDR.

East Berlin, 1985. Lars, a young Stasi Lieutenant, discovers his parents are underground smugglers. Now, with his commanding officer over for dinner,...

Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin in 1950.