ABF-Memoiren

What We Remember

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth....

Wenn Mutti früh zur Arbeit geht

In Syrien auf Montage

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria. We witness t...

Auf der Oder

Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR and the People's Re...

Fotoshooting DDR - Bilder zwischen Propaganda und Alltag

Life in the GDR was not only documented on behalf of the state, but also by photographic artists and journalists. The do...

Das letzte Pokalfinale der DDR – Zwischen Mauerfall und Wiedervereinigung

In the midst of the transition towards reunification and a market economy, two teams meet for the last time in the final...

Pride & Attitude

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR-FRG. Courageous, se...

From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situatio...

Erzähle deine Geschichte - Die DDR in 30 Begriffen

Die sieben Geheimnisse der NVA

1-2-tip für immer - Disko in der DDR

The Open Secret

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Police (the 'Stasi') wi...

Am Todesstreifen: DDR-Grenzer erzählen

Hotel Astoria

At Hotel Astoria, the former hotspot of Leipzig, guests were served champagne and turtle soup while the Stasi listened i...

Dancing at the Dump

The tragic love story between 17 year-old Gerat Lauter, who is in search of the truth, and his much older teacher Claudi...

Beyond the Blue Border

GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future...

3 1/2 Hours

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours before crossing the bo...

Sind so kleine Hände

While many GDR opposition activists emigrated to West Germany at the beginning of the 1980s, the well-known singer-songw...

Seven Freckles

East Germany 1978. Karoline and Robert, teenagers who used to live in the same house until Robert's family moved, meet a...

Forbidden Love

18-year old Georg and 13-year old Barbara have been playing together as children. Play becomes love later, which leads t...