Mdr Movies

The once clairvoyant party secretary Mattes is now mayor and has recently even been surrounded by a halo. The seductive and principled Angelika has re...

Hannes Schönemann reconstructs the story of his love affair with the Danish communist Julia Szaba a decade after her suicide.

Seven-year-old Moritz lives with his father Ben Sanddorn in Saxon Switzerland. Since the death of his mother many years ago, he has wanted nothing mor...

In the early summer of 1990, the Treuhandanstalt was founded to privatize the "state-owned" companies of the GDR. In the four years that followed, aro...

Less than two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Udo Lindenberg's first GDR tour starts in Suhl on January 6, 1990. The cheers in the "Stadthal...

Christmas 1989 is a very special time in the GDR. Many GDR citizens 'crossed over' for the first time to collect welcome money and go shopping. Many W...

The Lusatian mining district and the former "socialist residential town" of Hoyerswerda form the backdrop for the biography of Gerhard Gundermann, roc...

In 2013, Ukrainians rose up against their pro-Russian president, who ruled out any possibility of closer ties with the European Union. We look back at...

The man who has never been into space. This man is Tasillo. He lives and works in Mittweida, a small town in Saxony. Here, in an inconspicuous house,...

Until now, spoiled Vicky has always got through life by relying on the name of her father, who is an influential winegrower. After losing her job at a...

Three decades ago, they performed as the pop quartet "Altmarkspatzen" and felt great in front of the spotlights of the television cameras that had jus...

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the history of women in motor sport.