The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker 1976

6.00

The Germanic pagan deity, The Rainmaker, has fallen asleep, causing widespread drought and poverty. A young couple, Andreas and Maren must trick an old goblin into leading them to the magic garden of The Rainmaker and wake her up.

1976

Geschlossene Gesellschaft

Geschlossene Gesellschaft 1978

5.25

Three couples want to spend a short break together. Some have a traffic accident, the others are prevented professionally. So the designer Robert and the youth helper Ellen are forced to spend the days in a remote farmhouse alone with her young son. The previously suppressed marriage crisis breaks open. Allegations, confessions, charges, self-accusations are in the room. Painfully, they come to the realization that only their own happiness is responsible for their happiness. With the old landlord, each of them finds himself. In the end, Robert and Ellen want to try a new beginning.

1978

The Goose-Girl at the Fountain

The Goose-Girl at the Fountain 1979

5.10

A young blacksmith, searching for happiness in a series of dreams, realizes that he must find a rejected princess and hold her hand. A fairytale after the Brothers Grimm.

1979

Schwester Agnes

Schwester Agnes 1975

6.00

Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with the new mayor. The consequences leave an entire community upside down.

1975

Kai from the Box

Kai from the Box 1988

6.00

Kai, a young boy, living in 1923 Berlin tries to convince an American businessman that he can market his chewing gum better than anyone else in town.

1988

The Laughing Man

The Laughing Man 1966

6.80

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk about his life and war campaigns in Africa.

1966

Hiev up

Hiev up 1978

5.00

The crew of a small Saßnitz fisherman has problems with the "making a cultural socialist life". In order not to lose the competition prize again in the future, they want to show the organizer a collective weekend with all the trimmings. And they really do not mind ...

1978

Marta, Marta

Marta, Marta 1979

4.00

East Berlin, late 1970s: Because she doesn't really have any particular career aspirations, Marta becomes a nurse. And since true love is a long time coming, the 17-year-old seduces Monty, the young man next door. Then there are her parents' marital problems. Marta is in the middle of the exciting trials of growing up.

1979

Die lieben Luder

Die lieben Luder 1983

1

The blonde Eva-Marie, a trained hairdresser and called Evchen, and her friend, the dark-haired nurse Yvonne, get dressed up in the evening and head out. Their territory is the night bar “Tusculum”, their target is particularly business people on the move and other gentlemen without company. A photo in a clear situation - that greatly increases the gentlemen's willingness to spend, the two sluts think. But the two of them get into trouble right from the first photo attack.

1983

Censored: Kuhle Wampe

Censored: Kuhle Wampe 1975

1

A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? (1932). Directed by Slatan Dudow, the crew and cast included left-wing luminaries, such as playwright Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler and balladeer Ernst Busch. The film was the subject of vehement disputes and was banned twice for revolutionary and communist tendencies that were perceived to threaten the state. About 230 meters of the original film fell victim to the censor’s shears. This historic censorship case was argued over the course of three sessions. Censored: Kuhle Wampe re-enacts the censorship hearings, based on original minutes and documents, as well as personal records of the case. In addition to footage from the original film, this docudrama includes original clips of Berlin in the 1920s and '30s and short testimonies, filmed in the 1970s, with some of the actors involved in the original Kuhle Wampe film production.

1975

Take Care of Susi!

Take Care of Susi! 1968

5.50

A funny old comedy about ten year old Micha who decide that as a responsible brother he must prevent his older sister - seventeen year old Susi - from any romantic relations.

1968