Fred Düren

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.

German-Polish adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella.

The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because although he is a beginner, he manages to defeat even the experienced player Lodeck, a German sailor, with his "Grünstein Variant".

In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.

Adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life as a whole. She begins a relationship with the amateur saxophonist and studied philosopher Ralph who writes her a very personal song - but his obsession with death and unfaithful lifestyle is not for her. After getting into a quarrel with a band member who harasses her and telling off a show-host she is thrown out of the band. Abandoned, she struggles to regain control over her life.

This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.

Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie (Jaroslava Schallerová), whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin (Andrzej Kopiczynski) intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie (Milena Dvorská).

Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.

Историко-биографический фильм о жизни испанского живописца, графика и гравёра Франсиско Хосе де Гойя. О трудном пути восхождения человека к познанию жизни и её смысла.

August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach (Fred Düren). Barlach lives in the small town of Güstrow, keeping to himself and wanting to steer clear of politics. On this day he learns that the Nazis have dragged his famous 1927 sculpture The Hovering Angel out of the Güstrow Cathedral. Barlach begins to reflect on his life of “inner emigration” and on his work.

Film by Ralf Kirsten.

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.

Сын богатого дельца Михаэля Витте соблазнил молодую девушку Анну Ковальски, горничную в их доме. У Анны будет ребенок. Это не устраивает Михаэля, так как он мечтает женить сына на дочери богатого французского коммерсанта, а если история с Анной раскроется, планы выгодной женитьбы сына рухнут. Михаэль решает избавиться от Анны.

A surrealistic adaptation of Wagner's opera.

Времена мушкетов и шпаг. В Прусском королевстве не хватает солдат, Барон Фон Юббенау пытается насильно забрать в рекруты веселого, крепкого парня Александра, но он гражданин соседнего королевства. Молодой человек не так прост, он при помощи друзей умудряется не только перехитрить Барона, но и вовлечь в интриги и придворных и самого короля, да к тому же бежать с Ульрикой, дочерью знатного вельможи.

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.

Двухсерийный художественно-документальный фильм. Фильм представляет историю Российской империи и СССР в XX веке как поступательное движение человечества к социализму. Название кинокартины иллюстрирует попытку представить СССР как современное экономическое и политическое чудо.

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold.

This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm. After the war, the King - in an unwarranted move - deprives the major of his honor. Von Tellheim becomes impoverished and, filled with shame, breaks off his relationship to Minna. An innkeeper in Berlin, who is a police informer, makes the Major move to a shabby little attic because he cannot pay his debt. In the meantime, Minna has also arrived at the inn. She and her lady's maid Franziska are questioned and spied on by the nosy innkeeper. Minna has followed her beloved Tellheim and she now cunningly manages to elicit a new declaration of love from him...

Engineer Strebel′s apprentices think of nothing else but music and dancing, although they should really concentrate on their marks. Consequently, Strebel is anything but delighted with his pupil. To top it all, a TV show becomes interested in a performance by Strebel′s apprentices. To calm down their teacher, Jutta Fröhlich, who has already cast an eye on Strebel, makes him an offer: When they better their marks, Strebel would permit them to make a performance on television.

Транспортный самолет НАТО совершает перелет с ливийской военной базы в Осло, захватив с собой несколько пассажиров, среди которых и британский военный атташе капитан Лой. В полете командир воздушного судна Родни получает секретный приказ изменить маршрут полета, чтобы высадить в советских территориальных водах шпиона фон Штернберга. Понимая, чем грозит подобный маневр самолету, перевозящему гражданских лиц и стремясь предотвратить международный инцидент, Лой пытается помешать исполнению противозаконного приказа…

Хотя Тонда Майер был начинающим боксером, его огромный рост и незаурядная сила обеспечивали ему победу над противником. В концлагере, куда Тонда попал во время гитлеровской оккупации, он понял, что, только презирая опасность, можно остаться здесь человеком и помогать другим. Он назвал себя коммунистом, хотя никогда им не был. И когда Тонде грозила гибель, в дело вмешалась подпольная организация заключенных и спасла его от фашистской расправы.

In the late 1950s, the collectivization of agriculture is in full swing in the East German village of Willshagen on the German-German border. Those in charge have to face many obstacles, especially from a large-scale farmer who is unwilling to join the co-op. All of a sudden, mysterious men in a fancy car appear in the village and show an interest in the rundown manor house. Gossip spreads quickly, and some villagers think there will be a re-parceling of properties and a land swap with West Germany. They assume everything will go back to how it used to be and even expect the count to return to his manor. In preparation, the situation in the village escalates at a fevered pitch.

Hatifa is tired of her difficult fate and escapes from the place of her enslavement, a quarry in the desert. There she wanders around in freedom, but ultimately helpless, without water or food. Shortly before dying of thirst, she is saved by the sage Simsal, who is traveling with a caravan of the merchant Ganem. Hatifa quickly makes many friends, including the young servant Hodja. Only to him she confides her secret. The girl had to keep the fact that she was a slave to herself. After all, anyone who helps escaped slaves is mercilessly threatened with the death penalty. Out of consideration for the caravan, they both flee, but are soon picked up by Ganem. When he realizes that he can make a lot of money with Hatifa, he sells her again to a quarry.

Действие фильма происходит в 1939 году в Германии в дни разгула фашизма. Пятнадцатилетний паренек, смелый, веселый Амиго, что значит по-испански - друг, был любимцем и вожаком всех ребят во дворе. Но вдруг что-то случилось с Амиго - он стал задумчив и суров. Никто не знал, что Амиго нашел на чердаке человека, за которым охотились нацисты, и скрывает его. О юном пареньке с большим и мужественным сердцем рассказывает этот фильм.

В основу фильма положены подлинные события, происшедшие в ноябре 1918 года в городе Киле, когда немецкие рабочие с помощью революционно настроенных матросов захватили власть в свои руки. Однако, поддавшись лживым обещаниям правых социал-демократических вождей, большинство матросов прекратило борьбу.

A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.

О судьбе молодой девушки — манекенщицы Сибиллы, которая, не имея достаточного жизненного опыта, оказывается вовлеченной в темную аферу с фальшивыми жетонами для игры в казино. За свой необдуманный поступок она чуть не поплатилась свободой и жизнью.

Биографический фильм о хирурге и городском враче в Хайльбронне Юлиусе Роберте Майере (1814-1878), который много лет изучал тепло и был первым, кто правильно сформулировал основные принципы теории механического тепла и принцип сохранения энергии. Конкурирующие прусские учёные смеются над ним, а его жизнь полна недоразумений и преследований. Фильм, посвящён памяти этого великого немецкого натуралиста, рассказывает о его судьбе, а также о его долгой и тщетной борьбе за признание результатов его научной работы.