A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII.

Gladys Marin (1941-2005), a member of the Chilean Communist Party and an anti-Pinochet activist, visited the GDR and other socialist countries after leaving Chile in 1974.

The Gleiwitz Case reconstructs in detail the 1939 surprise attack by a Nazi unit on the radio station in Gleiwitz, a German town on the Polish border. This attack was blamed on Polish forces, thus served as Hitler's justification for marching into Poland and starting WWII.

Hans Globke was a government lawyer in the Third Reich Ministry of the Interior and co-author of the official commentary on the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935. In 1953, he was appointed Director of the West German Federal Chancellory by Konrad Adenauer and in 1963 he was sentenced to life imprisonme

Are Goethe's classic literatury works only a domain for highly educated connoisseurs or do they still speak to ordinary citizens of the GDR today?

Klaus lives and works with his two brothers, Kunz and Franz, but they are cruel and treat him poorly. One day, Klaus helps an old woman and offers to share his frugal meal. In return, she gives him a goose with feathers made of pure gold as a gift.

Herder Pagwa lives in a hut in a valley of beautiful flowers, where he hoards a mysterious chest whose secret is not revealed even to his three sons. The elder two believe that the chest is filled with gold and precious stones, so they break it open.

46 young men and women arrived from Mozambique in Lauchhammer and joined an apprenticeship as mechanics at a heavy equipment company.

(Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, former Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen der DDR)

In 1977, Maxie Wander published her GDR cult book Guten Morgen, du Schöne (© Susanne Wander, Vienna), in which 19 women from different ages and walks of life talked about their lives. This is one of 9 portraits which were adapted for East German TV.

In 1977, Maxie Wander published her GDR cult book Guten Morgen, du Schöne (© Susanne Wander, Vienna), in which 19 women from different ages and walks of life talked about their lives. This is one of 9 portraits which were adapted for East German TV.