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- The Sandman's everyday life, travels and fantastic adventures. The character often showcased socialist technological achievements, such as the use of awe-inspiring vehicles like futuristic cars and flying devices.
- The "McDonalds Massacre" occurred on July 18, 1984, 41-year-old James Huberty shot dead 21 people and injured 19 others in the McDonald's branch before he was shot by the police. The killing spree of an individual proves to be a spiritual and moral result of the war, where the former soldier became what he is now. TV excerpts are cut into the documentary, which are often interrupted by advertising blocks, the German commentary is accompanied by articles from the West German tabloid press.
- Orpheus in the underworld.
- An interview with former Nazi and mercenary Siegfried Müller about his life and war campaigns.
- Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie features young people using music to express their take on life, opposition to their parents' generation and opinions on the social and political climate in East Germany. It includes clips from concerts and interviews with fans and members of various bands, such as Feeling B's Christian Lorenz and Paul Landers, now members of Rammstein. This documentary, shot in 35mm, played to over one million viewers in sold-out theaters in East Germany. Audiences were drawn not only to see their favorite bands on the screen; they were also surprised that this film made it past the censors.
- A report on fashion for women in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Fashion from the 4th century BC BC ff. show Greek and Roman statues from the Albertinum in Dresden. Fashion students show today's trends based on their dress sketches. With a filmic depiction of historical fashion capers between the years 1910 and 1950, you can experience the changing clothes and dances of the ruling class. The state-sanctioned German Fashion Institute was established in 1952 as The Institute for Clothing Culture.
- Several centuries-old villages south of Leipzig are being razed to the ground for the sake of open-pit coal mines. The director follows the project for over 3 years as lives are uprooted and landscapes are destroyed.
- This polemical documentary-using rare authentic images and newsreels from both sides-justifies the erection of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961. It represents West Berlin as the front line of neo-fascism, terrorism and neo-colonialism-against which the peaceful city of East Berlin requires an "antifascist defense." Made at the behest of those responsible for GDR propaganda, Gass' trademark fast-paced editing and montage create a seamless, if skewed, rendition of the post-WWII history of Berlin. Notably absent, for example, are the Berlin Blockade and Airlift of 1948-49-that gave rise to the impassioned speech of West Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter, from which the documentary's title is taken. The film features the caustic text of journalist and propagandist Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, later a commentator on East German television and host of the agitation program "The Black Channel."
- Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.
- Tells the story of a peculiar man who ran the train service at the ramp in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Furthermore, there is a report about a top manager of the Bundeswehr administration who assesses the killing technology of Auschwitz according to the principle of profitability. Finally, we witness how you can order a "man on the ramp" from the cap to the sole of the boot and the necessary Waffen-SS patch "Auschwitz" for DM 2,966 to make yourself from the military trade in Soltau. Inset photos and historical footage document all the cruelty of the Waffen-SS and their practices in the concentration camp.
- Forensics on Con Son, the island that was hell. Flew in again with the first foreign film group Le Quang Vinh. In August 1961 he, revolutionary student leader, was arrested in Saigon. A show trial and the following year the death sentence. Worldwide protest reached revision: "Life imprisonment", on Con Son also Con Dao: the mountain island. Outgrowth of colonial history another name: Poulo Condor, used in the same breath as: Devil's Island. And recently become sadly famous like Buchenwald: the island of the tiger cages. But also such a keyword: University of Ho Chi Minh. And now only the mountain island again, after 113 years, In the summer of 1975, an unforeseeable area of cells, bunkers, crypts under bars is in front of the camera eye. Often on the walls angry portents of the imminent victory. Chains thrown in heaps, stands, shackles. In the district of the commanders - they came up with the number 53 - enigmatic legacies. The first film in the new Vietnam cycle; an experience report and historical evidence, at a shameful site of imperialism.
- A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are news reporters and tourists from all over the world taking pictures, children selling pieces of the wall to passers-by, and people celebrating New Year's Eve, on the other we see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks on their faces.
- A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary." - Elke Schieber, film historian
- A report on the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The soundtrack is a composition done earlier by Hanns Eisler.
- At the first German meeting, which took place in Berlin in 1950, domestic and foreign delegations expressed their desire for global peace. Particular emphasis was placed on the participation of a West German delegation, who, alongside young people from the GDR, demonstrated their desire for a unified Germany, among other things.
- A film on the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students. Young people from 140 countries were guests in Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic Republic, in 1973.
- SS officer Walter Krüger talks about his career. Now he is Secretary of the "Kamerad-schaftsverband I. Panzerkorps der ehemaligen Waffen-SS e.V." (Fellowship of Former Soldiers of Waffen SS 1st Tank Corps). During the interview it shows that Krüger still considers himself and his like-minded fellows to be the elite of the nation.
- The East German band Pankow in concert at their workplace. The songs describe the life of apprentice "Paule Panke": getting up early, long hours, free time at night, until the weekend finally comes. In addition, the film team spent a day with a group of seven mechanical engineering trainees, one woman and six men.
- Our Children is a documentary about different youth groups found in the GDR, particularly the young anti-Fascist group. Different young people are interviewed about their coming to terms with their history, country and society. Christa Wolf and Stefan Heym are among those interviewed.
- Anticipating the Seven Up project of Michael Apted, this short documentary observes what differences if any can be seen after one year in a first grade class in a school in East Germany.
- In this documentary film a 6th class in an East German school in the central working class district in Berlin Mitte is accompanied for on year.
- Friendship, fun and contemplation characterize the lives of a group of twenty-year-olds who spend their summer vacation in Prerow on the Baltic Sea. In brief interviews, they discuss their past achievements, future plans, dreams and perspectives. The conflict between the impending, serious future and their carefree, colorful lives comes to a head in this film, which reflects the attitude towards life in the 1960's, complete with games, parties, and guitar-playing on the beach.
- A 74-year-old man is standing in front of the Dresden district court. After more than forty years, the former highly decorated SS man was brought to the scene of his crimes. The process is the cinematic framework in which the background and mechanisms of the social system of nationalism are revealed by retracing the social development of this SS man.