Arthur Jopp

GDR TV play based on a story by Stanislaw Lem.

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. The working class is in a rebellious mood; the uprising of Kiel’s sailors against war and militarism sets off a call for revolution led by Liebknecht. On November 9, Liebknecht declares the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. But pro-Kaiser military and right wing Social Democrats oppose him.

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will not take part in this war. This resolution signifies a turning point in his life; a farewell to his class and his family.

The adventures of three friends from East Germany on the Black Sea.

Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was cancelled in 1965/66 due to the film's political content. Only in 1989/90 could the director reconstruct the film, where missing sounds and images are replaced with script inserts.

Федеративная Республика Германии… В больнице умирает журналист Рохманн, тяжело раненный в автомобильной катастрофе. Перед смертью он завещает своему другу, известному писателю Франку Зебургу, неоконченную повесть и просит завершить начатое им дело. Франк Зебург знакомится с материалами, которые собрал Рохманн. Оказывается журналист пытался проникнуть в тайну гибели некоторых должностных лиц ФРГ. По официальной версии, все они покончили жизнь самоубийством. Зебург не смог выполнить поручение своего друга — обнародовать истинные причины их смерти. Борьба с последователями фашизма оказалась ему не под силу.

Первый фильм дилогии, посвященный жизни известного немецкого лидера коммунистического движения Карла Либкнехта. Фильм второй - «Несмотря ни на что» (1971).

The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days. The children greet him with joy, but she greets him only with anxiety because their marriage is missing its key ingredient: love. She wants a divorce, but he refuses mainly out of comfort as well as due to pressure from the party. Katrin finds a strange solution: she shoplifts and is put on probation for three months. This is enough to force Richard into a divorce because he is concerned about the "moral liability" of his wife.

Based on a one act play in five scenes by Wolfgang Borchert, "Draußen vor der Tür" depicts the return of a former German soldier from the Eastern Front, to post-WWII Germany and the sobering realities of de-nazification and "peacetime."

О судьбе двух школьных товарищей — сына рабочего Георга и мелкого фабриканта Кристофа. О том, как разошлись их жизненные пути, как по-разному отнеслись они к гитлеровскому режиму, войне, о месте, которое занял в жизни каждый из них.