Tobias Fritzsch

Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in 2016, but over time the relationship between the two heads of state has had its ups and downs. Are they friends or enemies? Has their mutual admiration turned into mutual distrust?

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)

Правда об Эрихе Мильке, печально известном главе секретной службы Восточной Германии «Штази»: его мотивации, его карьера и его падение.

Правда об Эрихе Мильке, печально известном главе секретной службы Восточной Германии «Штази»: его мотивации, его карьера и его падение.

Правда об Эрихе Мильке, печально известном главе секретной службы Восточной Германии «Штази»: его мотивации, его карьера и его падение.

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.

This film undertakes a journey into the amazing parallel universe of East Berlin’s fashion designers and experts in the art of survival. For, in the midst of the constraints of life in the GDR, there existed a fantasy world where it was possible to dance to another tune, be individual and even provocative. The most important characteristic of this bohemian scene was one’s per- sonal style. But this certainly wasn’t something that could be bought off the peg in the GDR. In this parallel universe it was up to you to create your own individual image – with your own hands. This film tells the story of the desires, the passion and the dreams that were tried and tested, lived and performed in the shadow of the Berlin Wall.