Christa Wernicke

German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph (Martin West), a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun (this is the U.S.) and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

Уважаемый еврейский хирург, Профессор Мамлок уверен, что Веймарская республика преодолеет политический кризис 1930-х годов. Он не разделяет взгляды своего сына — коммуниста Рольфа, открыто выступающего против нацистов. Но когда к власти в стране приходит Гитлер, Мамлок теряет и свою работу, и чувство собственно достоинства.

О мужественных, стойких людях, которые пронесли свою веру в светлое будущее человечества через мрачные годы гитлеровского режима, концлагеря, и, несмотря на все испытания, выпавшие на их долю, как только отгремела война, с новой силой взялись за восстановление страны.

The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is dating employee Siegi, while medical student Dieter is dating art school student Sonja. Rather unintentionally, they exchange partners. During a carnival ball, Dieter makes out with Siegi because he falls for her her fresh and happy girlish manner. Sonja coolly observes this game and sees this intermezzo as a test for their relationship. While Siegi and Dieter vacation at the sea, Sonja falls in love with Edy. Now the die seems to be cast for new constellations. But when both couples stand in front of the registrar’s office, they finally come to their senses.

О любви немецкого солдата к еврейской девушке Рут, угоняемой фашистами в лагерь смерти, о любви, которая заставила юношу пересмотреть свои взгляды на жизнь и вступить в ряды борцов против фашизма.

Принц отправился на поиски поющего, звенящего деревца, потому что так пожелала принцесса, которую он любит. Ему удается найти его у злого карлика, который соглашается отдать ему деревце, но при одном условии: он должен завоевать любовь принцессы. Принцесса отказывает ему в любви, и принц обречен продолжать свою жизнь в шкуре медведя в королевстве злого карлика. Однако принцесса делает все, чтобы освободить принца от злого проклятья…

After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work on his own, flatly refusing to join any collective farming activities. He desperately wants a large-scale farm like Kimpel's in order to pass it on to his adored grandson, Tinko. When Kraske's son Ernst returns from a POW camp and gives his support to the new communal project, tensions arise within the family and little Tinko is caught in the middle.

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

The two half-orphans Reni and Rolf are 13 and 10 years old and they live with their grandmother in Berlin. Their father has died during the war, their mother works at a Baltic Sea port. Here she meets a captain who wants to marry her. When their mother tells them about the planned wedding, Reni and Rolf are reluctant to meet the captain.