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- The Sandman's everyday life, travels and fantastic adventures. The character often showcased socialist technological achievements, such as the use of awe-inspiring vehicles like futuristic cars and flying devices.
- Orpheus in the underworld.
- Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.
- An interview with former Nazi and mercenary Siegfried Müller about his life and war campaigns.
- A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are news reporters and tourists from all over the world taking pictures, children selling pieces of the wall to passers-by, and people celebrating New Year's Eve, on the other we see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks on their faces.
- A 74-year-old man is standing in front of the Dresden district court. After more than forty years, the former highly decorated SS man was brought to the scene of his crimes. The process is the cinematic framework in which the background and mechanisms of the social system of nationalism are revealed by retracing the social development of this SS man.
- The tragic love story between 17 year-old Gerat Lauter, who is in search of the truth, and his much older teacher Claudia, as it becomes a criminal case with state complicity in the chaotic GDR autumn of 1989.
- Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie features young people using music to express their take on life, opposition to their parents' generation and opinions on the social and political climate in East Germany. It includes clips from concerts and interviews with fans and members of various bands, such as Feeling B's Christian Lorenz and Paul Landers, now members of Rammstein. This documentary, shot in 35mm, played to over one million viewers in sold-out theaters in East Germany. Audiences were drawn not only to see their favorite bands on the screen; they were also surprised that this film made it past the censors.
- Depicts the Bulgarian born filmmaker Slatan Dudow's (1903-1963) life and work in exile, painting a detailed picture of the Marxist artist. It includes many clips from Dudow's early films, including Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World (1932), which was banned by the Nazis.
- Our Children is a documentary about different youth groups found in the GDR, particularly the young anti-Fascist group. Different young people are interviewed about their coming to terms with their history, country and society. Christa Wolf and Stefan Heym are among those interviewed.
- The second instalment of March Brandenburg trilogy captures the conversations taking place in Zehdenick during the weeks leading up to the first free elections in spring 1990. Including previously censored footage of March Brandenburg Bricks, this film reflects the hopes and concerns of the business community, working class women, and young people during 'Die Wende', the period of political change in East Germany.
- Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt- as she has for decades- sorting through rubble. After a retirement party thrown for her by her male colleagues, she tells her story of being a rubble-woman in post-war Germany.
- The most comprehensive documentation of events surrounding the 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany. The film team finally got the permission of the state-owned film studio to document these historic events on October 16, 1989 and filmed until the fall of the Berlin Wall. With their heavy 35mm camera equipment, they were the only professional team filming in Leipzig. The film includes interviews with demonstrators, members of the citizens' rights movement, officials and bystanders in East Germany's peaceful revolution.
- A documentary of the Young Pioneers in the 1950's. Including segments: Young Pioneers build a glider at a summer camp on the Baltic; a trip on the sailboat school Wilhelm Pieck; a cross-country game in the mountains; an expedition of the Havel; and a visit to the Thomas Muentzer Stadt Muehlhausen. The highpoint is the Young Pioneer Convention in Dresden. The song written for this film, Die Heimat hat sich schoen gemacht, und Tau blitzt ihr im Haar (Home has made itself beautiful, and dew glistens in her hair) became an East German folk song.
- A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary." - Elke Schieber, film historian
- The film begins in Peredelkino, a reunion of Konrad Wolf after decades with the unforgettable world of childhood in his second home, the Soviet Union. The former summer house of the emigrated poet Friedrich Wolf's family still stands not far from Moscow. His son Konrad, called Koni, the younger of the two brothers, paid another visit there in October 1981, shortly before his death.
- At the first German meeting, which took place in Berlin in 1950, domestic and foreign delegations expressed their desire for global peace. Particular emphasis was placed on the participation of a West German delegation, who, alongside young people from the GDR, demonstrated their desire for a unified Germany, among other things.
- The final instalment of March Brandenburg trilogy moves away from the town of Zehdenick in order to focus on the rural areas north of Berlin. Made in the period between the currency union in East Germany and the official reunification in October 1990, the film shows how drastically the lives of the residents have changed, as crippling unemployment has taken the place of hard work.
- Two soldiers in the Second World War stare out at us from a photo: one of them is crying in despair, the other is standing proud and tall and wearing a medal. They are boys - child soldiers - and their photos appeared all over the world as synonyms for Hitler's "last reserves." This film tells the story of what happened to these fifteen-year-old, one from the East and one from the West, after they survived the war.
- A small crew films Leipzig 89-90. They interview factory workers, young people, a former journalist, a Redskin and others. These individuals share their thoughts about the reunification, its consequences and their plans for the future.