This documentary depicts all facets of life on the beautiful Baltic Sea peninsula of Darß. The film highlights local pride and attempts to preserve the region's unique marsh landscape and old professions and traditions, such as thatched roofs.
A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth, a father in his late fifties, to the hospital bed. There, he begins to wonder what will become of him and his life and what has happened to his four daughters.
In 1957, Dawid Rubinowicz's journal was found in a small village in Poland. He was 12 years old when he began secretly writing in 1940 and his diary ends abruptly in June 1942, when Dawid and his family were killed in the Treblinka extermination camp.
This short documentary reports on the West African country of Guinea, which had gained independence from France a decade earlier and become a socialist state.
A documentary about the structure and content of vocational schools in the GDR. The film depicts various types of educational opportunities and the goals of each different job training program.
A depiction of class conflicts in Germany between 1918 and 1945. The Spartacist Erwin is shot by officers in 1918, and his pregant working-class bride Marie begins a new relationship with social democrat Geschke.
Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her mid-thirties, is asked to take charge of a major interdisciplinary research project but worries that the new responsiblity will hamper her dream of having a child. Her friends and family offer conflicting advice.
This entertainment film features a colorfully mixed program of musical numbers, along with the most popular artists of GDR music, film and television. Before each performance, the artists involved are seen in an everyday situation in their life.
Little Adam and his father are travelling through the jungle and suddenly hear a tiger roaring. The father tries to teach his son about the dangerous cat, but Adam only finds his father's demonstrations amusing.
A few days after the end of World War II, the eleven-year-old orphan Julius is on the run from the destroyed city of Berlin. Julius and formerly imprisoned communist Kaiser (Hilmar Baumann) both stumble on a horse in a forest and report it to the Soviet commander in a nearby town.