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I Laugh to Keep from Crying 2023
This portrait shows Black cartoonist Oliver Harrington from New York, who fled to the GDR. For his political drawings, he drew on worldly anecdotes and his love of storytelling. Director Hans Hattop later taught videography at the University of Film and Television.

Gitti 2008
Gitti lives in Berlin. She's single and decides to put an ad in the personal to find her perfect man. She gets a lot of responses, however she is quite choosy.

Simbabwe – Träume von der Zukunft 1990

Blühender Garten im Märkischen Sand 1990
Short documentary

Es lebe die R... 1989
In interviews, several important GDR personalities and also GDR citizens comment on the events of October 1989.

Aufbruch '89 - Dresden 1989
A chronicle of the events in Dresden in the fall of 1989, which began on October 4 with the passage of refugee trains from Prague and the associated riots. Among many others, a doctor who describes the injuries of police officers and demonstrators, young demonstrators who were arrested and a couple whose son disappeared have their say.

Einige Minuten Außenpolitik 1989
Short film about foreign affairs

Wessen Straße ist die Straße 1988
Documentary short about Husemannstraße in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg.

Nachts schlafen die Ratten 1988
A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert.

Recess 1987
Student film depicting recess at a grade school.

Behind Windows 1984
It’s only after the separation from her husband that another man tells her how valuable she is: the Chladek family, she’s a teacher, he’s a student. The first few years were nothing but quarrels: the Surau family, he’s a plumber, she’s a postal worker. Should she really intend to get further education at evening school, he won’t accept this: the Lehmann family, he’s a locksmith, she’s a lecturer. Three thirtysomething couples live in the Potsdam high-rise behind whose windows Petra Tschörtner looked for her graduation film. Long interviews that pierce the surface at once, equally revealing and oppressive. Promptly awarded a prize at the West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen.

Familienbetrieb 1984

Haus. Frauen. – Eine Collage 1982

Good Luck – Pictures of an Encounter 1982
Rainer Burmeister (director) tells a story about everyday working life of 46 young Mozambican people in the GDR who were employed as contract workers. Among them is 20-year-old Luisa, who worked in the mining industry and, like the others, is now training to be a craftswoman.

Die Kaminski 1980

Hiding 1979
Student film about hiding Jews during the Second World War.

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Das Geheimnis der Anden 1972 star_border 5