Otto Mellies

Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.

A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.

Kerstin is a successful department head of a tax consulting firm in Berlin. She is respected and feared by her employees. Only one thing is too short in her life: for years she had no sex and no husband by her side. At the company, she wants to show that she can also party properly. The next morning, she wakes up in a hotel bed with two employees next to her: the hated opponent Simon and the "footman" Gregor. With the aid of her assistant Achim, she has lost all the memories of the previous evening. Her employees are forcing her to silence. Four months later, she realizes that she is pregnant and one of her nightmares is the father.

Врач сказал правду. Время сочтено. Почему это случилось со мной, и почему сейчас? Мужчина оставляет жену и детей, родителей, друзей, соседей и вчерашнюю любовницу — всех, кто были частью его жизни. Каждый день — это прощание. Все реже слышны слова, все дольше длится молчание. За окном природа одевается в новые цвета. Осталась последняя работа — умереть. Не быть одному, оставаясь в одиночестве — может быть, это не так плохо…

Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils hijack a teacher in the GDR.//"Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful contemporary German filmmakers whose career began as the Berlin Wall was crumbling."// “Andreas Dresen’s films open a window into the hearts and minds of everyday people facing-yet not always surmounting-life’s challenges. Like Andrzej Wajda, Dresen consistently portrays the human condition with honest insight and compassion.”//

A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi ideals as time goes on.

Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all have to use the same highways. And every year everything ends in a big traffic jam.

In the GDR, purchasing a car was such a difficult process that many families applied for one years in advance. For example, Gisela secretly orders a Wartburg model after the birth of her first child. By the time the vehicle is ready, her daughter is a teenager, and Gisela's husband, who actually prefers walking, has already bought a second Wartburg from a friend in financial trouble. As a result, the couple decides to sign up for driving school together.

The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many years returning to the familiar places of his childhood, he hopes to meet again his old friends, especially Fred, Helmuth and Richard, with whom he had a close childhood friendship. When confronted with a murder shortly after his arrival and given the task of investigating it, he has the painful experience that his friends are involved in the case.

Puberty drama about the first love of a 15 year old girl from Berlin.

A group of tourists from the GDR spend their holiday at the coast of Bulgaria. When making a trip to a small fisher house, they have to stay they night, because the ship's motor broke down. One of the group proposes a game: Someone has to be a corpse, one the detective and another one the murderer. But shortly after starting the game the "corpse" has vanished only to befound at the foot of the nearby cliff - being dead for real. Now the group start their investigation...

GDR TV play based on a story by Stanislaw Lem.

В Англии в 1553 году планируется свадьба королевы Марии Тюдор и испанского наследного принца Филиппа II. Работа Саймона Ренарда - продвигать этот вопрос вперед. Мария, однако, потеряла сердце из-за Фабиано, который, в свою очередь, предает королеву и стремится только к власти. Когда его отношения с Джейн становятся очевидными и для ее поклонника Гилберта, и для самой королевы, интриги начинают разворачиваться на нескольких уровнях...

After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is able to complete a printing apprenticeship and is released early for good behavior. While he is still on probation, money is stolen at the company where he works and everyone is quick to suspect Conny. Can he overcome his past mistakes and start fresh, or will the mistrust of his colleagues and friends become a self-fulfilling prophecy?

A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating team.

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...

О молодом враче Гарри Бреннере, преданном своей профессии, в которой он видит радость и смысл жизни. Но его жена, избалованная, капризная женщина, мешает его работе. Гарри решает порвать с женой и уехать в деревню, где он больше всего нужен, где он принесет больше пользы людям.

The beautiful and charming laundress Lurette is a well sought-after young woman in Ludwig XV’s Paris. Her heart is already taken, however, and she makes elaborate plans during Carnival to obtain the man she truly loves, the carpenter Campistrel. During her plans to make Campistrel jealous and recognize his love for her, she meets the Duke of Marly, who plans to make her his mistress. The unsuspecting Lurette finds herself caught in a love triangle, and her peer, Marcelline, must save the beautiful Lurette from these scandalous schemes.

По одноименной драме Фридриха Шиллера. Фердинанд, сын фон Вальтера, и Луиза, дочь городского музыканта Миллера, любят друг друга. Но отец Фердинанда хочет, чтобы его сын женился на сожительнице герцога, чтобы иметь большее влияние на последнего. Влюбленные становятся жертвами тайной интриги и, в конце концов, принимают яд. Фильм впечатляет монументальными декорациями и историческими костюмами.

На торжественном открытии Симплонского туннеля, соединившего железной дорогой Италию и Швейцарию, богато и изящно одетые господа произносили высокопарные речи, гремели оркестры, а позади, за воротами стояла огромная толпа бедных, изнуренных людей - тех, кто своими руками строил этот туннель. Кого только не было здесь: немцы, итальянцы, испанцы и швейцарцы. Они все вместе терпели нужду и голод, получали гроши за свой непосильный труд, болели и страдали. Но многому и научились - они поняли, что, только объединившись, они могут бороться за свои права...

In works like “Guide Dog Ruepel” (1962), Bärbl Bergmann was the first feature film director in the GDR to portray children in their often pitiless but also honest dealings with each other, something that was almost impossible in the documentary films of that period. But she also managed to sneak lessons on how to pursue educational goals with creative obstinacy into popular science films. Thus her educational piece about two boys who discover that magic, too, requires hard work, despite its rational approach, is far from disenchanting: The protagonists reach their conclusion via detours that take them through mysterious corridors, furtive looks through keyholes and bewitching dreams.