A multi-layered drama that skillfully explores how both feelings and memories stay locked away in post-reunification East Germany.
Just a Friday
2022
26min
12 FSK
When Germany surrenders in 1945, two reckless teenagers put their families' escape on the line to save their friendship.
Achrome
2022
1h.36min
16+
Haunting anti-war parable about collaboration in the Nazi-occupied Baltics, based on the controversial work of author Rūta Vanagaitė.
Black Sun - Mythological Background of National Socialism
1998
1h.35min
6 FSK
The film BLACK SUN illuminates the importance of myths and occult beliefs in the ideology of the "Third Reich".
Two Mothers
2007
1h.27min
16+
Rosa von Praunheim's search for his own roots interweaves his personal life story with the larger historical context of the Second World War.
Endphase
2021
1h.24min
16+
A war crime was committed in their home village and consistently hushed up. The two brothers search for clues leaves us stunned and angry.
Josep
2020
1h.14min
16+
This sensitive animated film tells of the horrors endured by cartoonist Josep Bartoli in an internment camp.
The Waldheim Waltz
2018
1h.34min
6 FSK
This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.
You will never understand
2003
52min
16+
Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.
Learning to Milk a Cow
2016
1h.4min
16+
At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.
The Old Gun
1975
1h.38min
16 FSK
The Wehrmacht massacre at Oradour in 1944, filmed with Philppe Noiret and Romy Schneider in 1975. Hated by the German critics, loved by the French.
I Was Nineteen
1968
1h.55min
12 FSK
April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team.
Marriage in the Shadows
1947
1h.38min
12 FSK
Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin.
Das Haus am Fluss
1986
1h.25min
12 FSK
Based on the novella "Der Russenpelz" by Friedrich Wolf, Roland Gräf's feature film was made by the artistic working group "Roter Kreis".
Age of the Gods
1992
1h.32min
16
At the beginning of the last century, Arno Breker was one of the great hopes of young German sculpture, esteemed by the painter Max Liebermann.
Bunker - Die letzten Tage
2003
1h.22min
16+
At the end of the Second World War, the German capital was filled with an underground labyrinth of bunkers. These are the stories of the people who stayed ...
Summer Solstice
2015
1h.36min
12 FSK
The coming-of-age drama by Michal Rogalski tells how everyday life in the WW2 grey zone between normality and terror looked like...
An Iron Box
2018
1h.42min
12
A filmmaker discovers evidence of a Wehrmacht massacre in Italy in his grandfather's estate and investigates the case himself.
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
1h.45min
0 FSK
Film journalist Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed.
East of War
1996
1h.52min
16+
The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.
Pornografia
2003
1h.57min
16+
In Wehrmacht-occupied Poland, two intellectuals flee to a country estate and play a perverse game with its inhabitants.
Fritz Bauer - Death By Installments
2010
1h.38min
12 FSK
Fritz Bauer was a public prosecutor, a leading investigator of Nazi history and a pioneer of German civil society.
Frozen Flashes
1967
2h.34min
16 FSK
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde.
But ...
Come And Play
2013
31min
12 FSK
A boy playing with a toy gun in the woods is pulled into an altered reality.