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- DirectorHerrmann ZschocheStarsBarbara SommerRolf LukoschekHenry SchroederFrank, a tenth grade student, falls in love with his classmate Regine. His father is a well-connected plant manager in the GDR; Regine's mother is a single parent with four children. Regine wants to become a kindergarten teacher, but her grades are poor and she is not allowed to apply for technical college. Frank champions her and seeks an open discussion about these rigid regulations. But his criticism is nipped in the bud.
- DirectorSiegfried KühnStarsKatrin SassGudrun RitterVolker RanischMaria tells her former colleague, Hanna, that she has undergone a cancer operation but is now cured. Soon after, she suffers a relapse. The doctors believe that she should be told the truth about her condition, and Hanna is willing to do so. For Maria, it is the beginning of several long, agonizing weeks until she is ready to accept that she has only a very small amount of time left to live. In the meantime, Hanna has to decide how she can help her friend die; an almost unbearable decision, but once made she carries it out to the last consequence.
- DirectorRainer BehrendStarsArianne BorbachHans-Uwe BauerNico WohllebeClaudia and Georg Rattey have everything they might wish for. But their contentedness does not turn into happiness but into an inner void, when they discover a ten-year old burglar in their half-finished vacation home.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlastimil BrodskýVáclav NeckárSet in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
- DirectorGunther ScholzStarsPeter BausePaul BerndtBärbel BolleThueringen, 804 A.D. An orphan boy named Bengel lives in an abbey, teased by the nuns because of his ugliness. He nurtures the Black Knight back to health, though he's thought to have the Plague, so everyone else shuns him. The Knight tells Bengel about the missing Bogumil, son of Slav king Slavomir, who on Charlemagne's order was to marry the Thueringian Margrave's daughter Reglindis. He also asks Bengel about his ancestry. Bengel now believes that he is Bogumil. He goes to the castle, where he meets a beautiful girl who thinks he's just as handsome. It is Reglindis, and she is blind. She finds his inner beauty and devotes herself to him, but her father wants to get rid of him. Bengel barely escapes death twice, the Black Knight reveals his identity with a flourish to Bogumil, and everyone lives happily ever after.
- DirectorGünter MeyerStarsTobias GottschlichAnne SzarvasyUlrike Hanke-HänschEight year old Paul and his mother just moved to a skyscraper. After an embarrassing encounter with Anna, Paul meets her in the elevator. Anna makes fun of him and they start to quarrel. They can't arrange about going up or down. The elevator suddenly drops and carries them deep down into the realms of a wicked witch. The witch is out for their youth, since her own time is running out. Their only chance against her is for once to help together. They meet a blind horse, a clock without clock hand and a knight without courage helping them on their journey.
- DirectorRoland GräfStarsMichael GwisdekCorinna HarfouchHermann BeyerWinter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes, he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the piano. The film shows what "ordinary socialism" was like, letting the audience feel the threat under which the people in the GDR had to live over many years.
- DirectorGunter FriedrichStarsRené Tony SpenglerAntje SalzGünter SchubertAfter the Nazis take over political power in Germany 1933 the father of Rosi and Hansi, a member of the communist party, must hide from police. One thing he left behind is a watch which might contain a message.
- DirectorJürgen BrauerStarsDagmar ManzelFrank StierenWinfried GlatzederThe 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.
- DirectorEvelyn SchmidtStarsRita FeldmeierPeter PragerHeidemarie SchneiderThe cleaning lady Marie-Luise, a single mother of three children and already in her thirties, decides to end her life as a gray mouse. She buys a large, sophisticated hat. With a hat, the children and a rickety Wartburg, she sets out on a journey to the FDGB holiday home, where - due to a mistake - she gets a luxury apartment. In the crowded elevator of the holiday home, she and her hat become a nuisance for the elevator operator Hans. He insults her. And she falls in love with this conceited guy of all people.
- DirectorAndré MelançonStarsDenis BouchardRaymond LegaultPipo GagnonOn Christmas eve a journalist witnesses a theft in a mall and then tracks one of the thieves to later be taken as his hostage in the radio station he works for.
- DirectorRoland OehmeStarsMichèle MarianAngelika WallerLina WendelHe could have had women, he could have climbed the ladder of his accountancy career, and he could have stood on the podium next to the highest in the land. If only he had wanted to! But Farssmann, shaken by divorce and unwilling to better himself, wants to remain what he is: an ordinary bookkeeper like you and me. And so the dollar deal with Mr. Osbar from Utah (USA) is not the first time he comes into conflict with the very palpable unreality of a country called the German Democratic Republic.
- DirectorDusan TrancíkStarsMiro NogaAmanda SandrelliMónica Molina
- DirectorEgon GüntherStarsRolf LudwigFranziska HeroldEvelin DahmA German stage actor's cult following and popularity after protesting the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
- DirectorJeanine MeerapfelStarsLiv UllmannCipe LincovskyFederico LuppiMaría and Pancho are a happily married couple in a quiet, working-class suburb south of Buenos Aires, circa 1978. They share the grief over the disappearance of their eldest son Carlos.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsChristiane HeinrichNikolaus GröbeMichael GwisdekTwo people love each other when they know they should not. Their parents' and friends' pleas, their social backgrounds and reputation, their careers; everything is used to make them give each other up. Flattery, lies and threats finally drive Frank to despair and Karin to treason. But it is not due to their parents' hatred, nor to any greed for inherited wealth. Rather, the mere conjecture expressed by the authorities is enough to set off a merciless mechanism...
- DirectorKarl-Heinz LotzStarsMaria FerrensPeter RaaschRolf SchillTo gain lands from the prince of Saxony, a group of orphans seeks Mozart, in order to obtain the very rare score of one of his compositions.
- DirectorVadim GlownaStarsElsa Grube-DeisterRolf ZacherMuriel BaumeisterGermany shortly after its reunification: Western capitalism seeks its profit in former East Germany the one way or another. There is Ada Fenske on the island of Ruegen. She seems to be just an lovely old grandma. Suddenly everybody seems to be interested in buying her little house. There is M.A.D. agent Zwirner who has official order to buy it, but it is not as easy as he thought. Ada Fenske quickly realizes the odds and ends of the new system.
- DirectorZdenek SirovýStarsJirí StrachMilan SandhausJirí Schmitzer
- DirectorHeiner CarowStarsAngelica DomröseGottfried JohnJörg GudzuhnIt is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) knows about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. Critics note that in this film, director Heiner Carow revisits the themes of his 1972 smash hit, The Legend of Paul and Paula, which became a cult film throughout Germany.