Noch mal davongekommen

Wer beherrscht Deutschland? - Was den Osten anders macht.

October 2019 •German

Time Loops - A Conversation with Christa Wolf

January 1991 •German

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics, life and work.

We'll be Keeping On

February 1999 •German

Follows the Eastern German family Schütze and their greengrocer's shop for 10 years, beginning right after Germany's reunification.

Der Reichstag

December 2017 •German

Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flourished in the Weimar Republic, perished in the Nazi dictatorship, and was rebuilt after its partial destruction.

Money for Bread

January 1994 •Turkish

Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories about their lives, including their sorrows, griefs, hopes, and dreams, while expressing their longing for home and feelings of being lost in a foreign place.

The Last Summer of the GDR: Freedom and Anarchy

November 2024 •German

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of East Germany had to get used to a new way of consuming, working, and living. New-found freedoms were a breath of fresh air for many but in the chaos leading up to reunification with West Germany, the experience was also disconcerting.

Vor Zurück Zur Seite Ran

November 2023 •German

Sieg im Osten

October 1993 •German

The army of the GDR, called NVA had not survived the reunification of Germany, it was completely absorbed by the Bundeswehr and scrapped subsequently. But what apparently went on so smoothly as a peaceful unification of hostile brothers quietly left deep scars in the East German landscape.

The Hell of Ueckermünde

January 1993 •German

This report was broadcast on ARD in 1993. In 43 minutes, the development of psychiatry "in the third year after reunification" is shown using two institutions in the new federal states as examples. A touchstone for all of psychiatry and disability care to this day. The film shows a shocking way in which disabled people are treated. The commentary uses the perspective of those affected. 50 years after euthanasia in Germany, this documentary reminds us of this once again.

Erzähle deine Geschichte - Die DDR in 30 Begriffen

October 2020 •German

Wem gehört der Osten - Die großen Deals der Einheit

January 2017 •German

Poker um die Deutsche Einheit - Wurde Russland in der NATO-Frage getäuscht?

July 2015 •German

Erzähle Deine Geschichte - Vom Mauerfall bis heute

October 2020 •German

Reunification in the Ice: The Story of the Last GDR Antarctic Explorers

October 2020 •German

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they returned in the spring of 1991, their homeland was a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.

DDR 1990 - Reise durch ein verschwindendes Land

December 2017 •German

Meine Reise in die DDR - 25 Jahre später

October 2015 •German

About a journalist and his cameraman visiting East Germany, former GDR, 25 years later again after their journey which took place in January 1990, just between the Fall of the Wall and the reunification with West Germany, comparing the old pictures with the present of 2015 and meeting former interview partners a second time. An impressive work of time documentary showing seemingly surreal scenes about the changings of cities, industrial locations and lifes in different political and economical systems.

Countdown To 1990 : La Réunification de l'Allemagne

January 2020 •French

Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand

October 1990 •German

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification.

Wir Ostdeutsche - 30 Jahre im vereinten Land

September 2020 •German

An deutschen Tischen

October 2000 •German

Documentation about the intra-German relations after the reunification.