The 1978 documentary Matrosen in Berlin (Sailors in Berlin) deals with the history of the Volksmarinedivision (People’s Naval Division) in Berlin in the turbulent period right after the end of World...
A retrospective view of the events of the German revolution produced by DEFA-Studio (GDR) in 1958. The revolutionary period lasted from November 1918 until the formal establishment of the Weimar Repub...
A woman is caught between two men in the turmoil of the First World War. The soldiers Richard and Karl set up a labour battalion in a field warehouse whilst being held in Russian captivity. In the sol...
After a period of maturation, the 17-year-old high school pupil, Hans Gastl, who comes from a sheltered upper middle-class home environment, finally decides to take leave of his past, social backgroun...
Matter, a destitute innkeeper, can no longer afford the medicine for his critically ill wife. When a travelling musician arrives at the inn and boasts about his money he is murdered by Matter. Years l...
Maria Bonde is the object of affection of baron Fedja Bronikow from Sofia, Bulgaria. However, Maria is actually in love with her sister’s fiancé, Martin Steinert, who reciprocates her feelings. Her...
Wanda works at the Garbaty cigarette factory. Her boss, cigarette manufacturer Heinrich Löbel, is smitten. After a rendezvous Wanda asks her boss to marry her but he was hoping for another outcome fo...
The Baltic captain Terje Wiggen works as a pilot on the island of Muhu. When the mate of the ship “Carola” calls in sick, he jumps at the chance of reviving his life as a sailor – against the wi...