List of East German films
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This is a list, in year order, of the most notable films produced in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany and the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) from 1945 until German Reunification in October 1990.
The state owned East German film company DEFA produced about 800 feature films between 1946 and 1992. Besides DEFA, the state broadcaster DFF and the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst (now the Filmuniversität Babelsberg)[1] were the only other organizations in the GDR that produced feature films for cinematic release, although far fewer than DEFA. DEFA also produced about 750 animated movies and more than 2500 documentaries and short films.
DEFA feature films are accessible and licensable as part of DEFA's entire film heritage on the PROGRESS archive platform.[2]
For an alphabetical list of articles on East German films see Category:East German films.
1945–1949 (the Soviet Sector of Germany)[]
Note that the German Democratic Republic formally came into existence in October 1949.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | ||||||
| Allez Hopp | Hans Fritz Köllner | Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, | Drama | |||
| Berlin im Aufbau | Kurt Maetzig | Documentary, short | ||||
| Richard Groschopp | Documentary, short | |||||
| Einheit SPD-KPD | Kurt Maetzig | Documentary, short | ||||
| Die Fledermaus | Géza von Bolváry | Marte Harell, Johannes Heesters | Operetta | Based on Johann Strauss II's operetta Die Fledermaus; filmed in 1944 | ||
| Freies Land | Milo Harbich | , Herbert Wilk | Drama | |||
| Irgendwo in Berlin | Gerhard Lamprecht | Mady Rahl, Rotraut Richter | Drama | |||
| Die Mörder sind unter uns | Wolfgang Staudte | Wilhelm Borchert, Hildegard Knef | Drama | |||
| Peter Voss, der Millionendieb | Karl Anton | Viktor de Kowa, Else von Möllendorff | Comedy, crime | Filmed between 1943 and 1945 | ||
| Documentary, short | ||||||
| 1947 | ||||||
| Ehe im Schatten | Kurt Maetzig | Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat | Melodrama | Based on the life of German actor Joachim Gottschalk | ||
| Kein Platz für Liebe | Hans Deppe | Bruni Löbel, Heinz Lausch | Comedy | |||
| Razzia | Werner Klingler | Paul Bildt, Agathe Poschmann | Crime | |||
| Wozzeck | Georg C. Klaren | Kurt Meisel, | Drama | |||
| 1948 | ||||||
| 1-2-3 Corona | Hans Müller | Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Lutz Moik | Crime, drama | |||
| Affaire Blum | Erich Engel | Hans Christian Blech, Ernst Waldow | Drama | Based on a 1926 murder trial of a German-Jewish industrialist in Magdeburg | ||
| Chemie und Liebe | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Hans Nielsen, Tilly Lauenstein | Comedy | |||
| , Wolfgang Schleif | Claus Holm, | Drama | ||||
| Das kleine Hofkonzert | Paul Verhoeven | Elfie Mayerhofer, Hans Nielsen | Musical | Filmed in 1944 | ||
| Die seltsamen Abenteuer des Herrn Fridolin B. | Wolfgang Staudte | Axel von Ambesser, Ilse Petri | Comedy | |||
| Straßenbekanntschaft | Gisela Trowe, Alice Treff | Drama | ||||
| Und wieder 48 | Gustav von Wangenheim | Inge von Wangenheim, Wilhelm Borchert | Drama | |||
| 1949 | ||||||
| Der Biberpelz | Erich Engel | Fita Benkhoff, Werner Hinz | Comedy | Based on Gerhart Hauptmann's play The Beaver Coat | ||
| The Blue Swords | Wolfgang Schleif | Hans Quest, Ilse Steppat | Biographical, drama | Fictionalized biography of Johann Friedrich Böttger | ||
| Arthur Pohl | Karl Hellmer, Fritz Wagner | Drama | ||||
| Die Buntkarierten | Kurt Maetzig | Camilla Spira, Werner Hinz | Drama | |||
| Figaros Hochzeit | Georg Wildhagen | Angelika Hauff, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender | Musical | Based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro | ||
| Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Wolfgang Lukschy, Petra Peters | Drama | ||||
| Quartet of Five | Gerhard Lamprecht | Claus Holm, | Comedy, romance | |||
| Rotation | Wolfgang Staudte | Paul Esser, | Drama | Won a Golden Leopard at the 1954 Locarno Film Festival | ||
| Träum' nicht, Annette | Eberhard Klagemann, Helmut Weiss | Jenny Jugo, | Comedy | |||
| Unser täglich Brot | Slatan Dudow | Viktoria von Ballasko, Paul Bildt | Drama | |||
1950s[]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||||||
| Der Auftrag Höglers | Gustav von Wangenheim | Inge von Wangenheim, Fritz Tillmann | Drama | |||
| Bürgermeister Anna | Hans Müller | , Reinhard Kolldehoff | Comedy | |||
| Familie Benthin | Slatan Dudow, Richard Groschopp, Kurt Maetzig | Maly Delschaft, Charlotte Ander | Crime, drama | |||
| Für ein einiges, glückliches Vaterland | Documentary, short | |||||
| Immer bereit | Kurt Maetzig | Documentary | ||||
| Die Jungen vom Kranichsee | Arthur Pohl | Gunnar Möller, | Drama | |||
| Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute | Hans Heinrich | Petra Peters, Fritz Wagner | Comedy | Based on Jochen Klepper's book Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute | ||
| Das kalte Herz | Paul Verhoeven | Lutz Moik, Hanna Rucker | Fantasy | |||
| Maul- und Klauenseuche | Documentary | |||||
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | Georg Wildhagen | Sonja Ziemann, Camilla Spira | Comedy, musical | Based on William Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor | ||
| Der Rat der Götter | Kurt Maetzig | Paul Bildt, Eva Pflug | Drama | Awarded a special honorary diploma at the 1950 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | ||
| Saure Wochen – frohe Feste | Wolfgang Schleif | , Blandine Ebinger | Comedy | |||
| Secrets of Nature | , | Documentary, short | Compilation of English-language versions of three Soviet and one East German short documentary | |||
| Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter | Georg C. Klaren | Karl Paryla, Käthe Braun | Biographical, drama | Fictionalized biography of Ignaz Semmelweis | ||
| Tiergestalt | Documentary, short | |||||
| Der Weg nach oben | Andrew Thorndike | Documentary | Won Best Documentary Film at the 1951 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | |||
| 1951 | ||||||
| Animation, short | Based on Aladdin | |||||
| Das Beil von Wandsbek | Falk Harnack | Erwin Geschonneck, Käthe Braun | Drama | Based on Arnold Zweig's novel Das Beil von Wandsbek | ||
| Corinna Schmidt | Arthur Pohl | Trude Hesterberg, | Drama | Based on Theodor Fontane's novel Frau Jenny Treibel | ||
| Die letzte Heuer | E. W. Fiedler, Hans Heinrich | Inge Keller, Hans Klering | Drama | |||
| Die Meere rufen | Eduard Kubat | Hans Klering, Käte Alving | Drama | |||
| Modell Bianka | Richard Groschopp | , Fritz Wagner | Comedy | |||
| Die Sonnenbrucks | Georg C. Klaren | Käte Alving, | Drama | Based on Leon Kruczkowski's play Niemcy | ||
| Unter dem Rauschen deiner Wimpern | Animation | |||||
| Der Untertan | Wolfgang Staudte | Werner Peters, Paul Esser | Comedy, drama | Based on Heinrich Mann's novel Der Untertan | ||
| Youth Sports Festival | Andrew Thorndike, Dmitri Vasilyev | Documentary, sports | ||||
| Zugverkehr unregelmäßig | Claus Holm, Inge Keller | Crime | ||||
| 1952 | ||||||
| Bauern erfüllen den Plan | Heiner Carow | Documentary, short | ||||
| Blaue Wimpel im Sommerwind | Documentary | |||||
| Frauenschicksale | Slatan Dudow | Sonja Sutter, | Drama | |||
| Freundschaft siegt | Joris Ivens, Ivan Pyryev | Documentary | ||||
| Karriere in Paris | Georg C. Klaren, | Günther Ballier, | Drama | Based on Honoré de Balzac's novel Père Goriot | ||
| Roman einer jungen Ehe | Kurt Maetzig | , | Drama | |||
| Schatten über den Inseln | Otto Meyer | Erwin Geschonneck, Fritz Diez | Drama | |||
| Sein großer Sieg | Claus Holm, Eva Probst | Drama | ||||
| Das verurteilte Dorf | Martin Hellberg | Helga Göring, Günther Simon | Drama | Won a Peace Prize at the 1952 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | ||
| Wilhelm Pieck – Das Leben unseres Präsidenten | Andrew Thorndike | Documentary | ||||
| Wyscig pokoju – Warszawa-Berlin-Praga | Joris Ivens | Documentary | East German-Polish co-production | |||
| 1953 | ||||||
| Anna Susanna | Günther Simon, Peter Marx | Drama, crime | ||||
| Dorf im Herbst | Heiner Carow | Documentary, short | ||||
| Geheimakten Solvay | Martin Hellberg | Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Leny Marenbach | Thriller | |||
| Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck | Wolfgang Staudte | Thomas Schmidt, | Children's, fantasy | Based on Wilhelm Hauff's fairy tale Little Muck | ||
| Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar | Egon Monk | Helene Weigel, Erwin Geschonneck | Drama | Live television production of Bertolt Brecht's play Señora Carrar's Rifles | ||
| Herren der Felder | Documentary | |||||
| Jacke wie Hose | Eduard Kubat | , Günther Simon | Comedy | |||
| Das Kleine und das große Glück | Martin Hellberg | , | Drama, romance | |||
| Ein Schritt weiter | Heiner Carow | Documentary, short | ||||
| Die Störenfriede | Wolfgang Schleif | , | Children's | |||
| Die Unbesiegbaren | Arthur Pohl | Alice Treff, Willy A. Kleinau | Historical drama | |||
| Winterurlaub mit dem FDGB | Heiner Carow | Documentary, short | ||||
| 1954 | ||||||
| Alarm im Zirkus | Erwin Geschonneck, | Crime | ||||
| Carola Lamberti – Eine vom Zirkus | Hans Müller | Henny Porten, Horst Naumann | Drama | |||
| Die Entscheidung des Tilman Riemenschneider | Biographical | Fictionalized television biography about Tilman Riemenschneider | ||||
| Ernst Thälmann – Sohn seiner Klasse | Kurt Maetzig | Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti | Biographical, drama | First of a two-part fictionalized biography of Ernst Thälmann; won a Peace Prize at the 1954 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | ||
| Der Fall Dr. Wagner | Harald Mannl, Carl Balhaus (co-director) | Harald Mannl, | Crime | |||
| Forschen und Schaffen. Folge VI | Heiner Carow | Documentary | ||||
| Gefährliche Fracht | Gustav von Wangenheim | Karl Block, | Adventure | Won a Peace Prize at the 1954 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | ||
| Das geheimnisvolle Wrack | Kurt Ulrich, | Adventure | ||||
| , | Comedy, drama | |||||
| Kein Hüsung | Arthur Pohl | , | Drama | Based on Fritz Reuter's narrative poem Kein Hüsung | ||
| Leuchtfeuer | Wolfgang Staudte | , Horst Naumann | Drama | East German-Swedish co-production | ||
| Das Lied der Ströme | , Joris Ivens, | Documentary | ||||
| Documentary | Documentary about the life of Ludwig van Beethoven | |||||
| Pole Poppenspäler | Arthur Pohl | , | Children's, drama, fantasy | Based on Theodor Storm's novella Pole Poppenspäler | ||
| Die Sieben vom Rhein | Andrew Thorndike, | Documentary | ||||
| Ein Strom fließt durch Deutschland | Joachim Kunert | Documentary | ||||
| Stärker als die Nacht | Slatan Dudow | Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Helga Göring | Drama | |||
| 1955 | ||||||
| 52 Wochen sind ein Jahr | Richard Groschopp | , | Drama | |||
| Die Dresdner Philharmoniker | Joachim Kunert | Documentary | ||||
| Einmal ist keinmal | Konrad Wolf | Horst Drinda, | Comedy | |||
| Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse | Kurt Maetzig | Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti | Biographical, drama | Second of a two-part fictionalized biography of Ernst Thälmann; lead actor Günther Simon won Best Actor at the 1956 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for his appearance | ||
| Das Fräulein von Scuderi | Eugen York | Henny Porten, Willy A. Kleinau | Crime, drama | East German-Swedish co-production; based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella Mademoiselle de Scuderi | ||
| Hotelboy Ed Martin | , | Ulrich Thein, Katharina Matz | Drama | Based on Albert Maltz's play Merry-Go-Round | ||
| Der Kleine Häwelmann | Animation, children's | Based on Theodor Storm's tale Der Kleine Häwelmann | ||||
| Martins Tagebuch | Heiner Carow | Documentary, short | Won a Golden Dove at the 1956 International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film | |||
| Mein Kind | Joris Ivens, Vladimir Pozner, | Documentary, short | ||||
| Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder | Wolfgang Staudte | Helene Weigel, Simone Signoret | Drama | Based on Bertolt Brecht's play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder; unfinished | ||
| Der Ochse von Kulm | Martin Hellberg | Thea Aichbichler, | Comedy | |||
| Ein Polterabend | Curt Bois | , | Comedy | |||
| Rauschende Melodien | E. W. Fiedler | , | Operetta | Based on Johann Strauss II's operetta Die Fledermaus | ||
| Robert Mayer – der Arzt aus Heilbronn | , Gisela Uhlen | Biographical, drama | Fictionalized biography of Julius Robert Mayer | |||
| Sommerliebe | , | Comedy | ||||
| Star mit fremden Federn | Harald Mannl | Werner Peters, Sonja Sutter | Comedy | |||
| Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg | Eva Kotthaus, Hans-Peter Minetti | Fantasy | ||||
| Der Verschenkte Leutnant | Television film | |||||
| Wer seine Frau lieb hat | Kurt Jung-Alsen | , Leny Marenbach | Comedy | |||
| Wohnkultur | Documentary, short | |||||
| 1956 | ||||||
| Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle | Gérard Philipe, Joris Ivens | Gérard Philipe, Jean Vilar | Adventure, comedy | French-East German co-production; based on Charles De Coster's novel The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak | ||
| Eine Berliner Romanze | Annekathrin Bürger, Ulrich Thein | Drama, romance | ||||
| Besondere Kennzeichen: keine | Joachim Kunert | , | Drama | |||
| Damals in Paris | Carl Balhaus | Gisela Trowe, Richard Lauffen | Drama | |||
| Drei Mädchen im Endspiel | Kurt Jung-Alsen | Horst Naumann, | Comedy | |||
| Du und mancher Kamerad | Andrew Thorndike, | Documentary | Banned in West Germany | |||
| Eisetüde | Short | |||||
| Die Fahrt nach Bamsdorf | Konrad Petzold | , | Children's short | |||
| Documentary | Documentary about the life of Friedrich Schiller | |||||
| Genesung | Konrad Wolf | Karla Runkehl, Wolfgang Kieling | Drama, romance | |||
| Der Hauptmann von Köln | Slatan Dudow | Rolf Ludwig, Erwin Geschonneck | Comedy | |||
| Heimliche Ehen | Gustav von Wangenheim | Paul Heidemann, Gerd Michael Henneberg | Comedy | |||
| Junges Gemüse | Günter Reisch | , Angela Brunner | Comedy | |||
| Mich dürstet | Karl Paryla | , | Drama, war | Based on 's short story Um Spaniens Freiheit | ||
| Die Millionen der Yvette | Martin Hellberg | , Wolf Kaiser | Drama | |||
| Mit Oswald in der Oper | Gottfried Kolditz | Günther Haack, | ||||
| Der Richter von Zalamea | Martin Hellberg | Hans-Joachim Büttner, Gudrun Schmidt | Drama | Based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca's play The Mayor of Zalamea | ||
| Das Tapfere Schneiderlein | , Christel Bodenstein | Fantasy | Based on the German fairy tale | |||
| Der Teufelskreis | Carl Balhaus | , | Historical drama | |||
| Thomas Müntzer | Martin Hellberg | , | Biographical, drama | Fictionalized biography of Thomas Müntzer | ||
| Gisela Uhlen, Günther Simon | Children's | |||||
| Treffpunkt Aimée | , Günther Simon | Crime | ||||
| Von nun ab, Herr Kunze | Gottfried Kolditz | , Norbert Christian | Short | |||
| Zar und Zimmermann | Hans Müller | Willy A. Kleinau, Bert Fortell | Comedy, musical | Based on Albert Lortzing's opera Zar und Zimmermann | ||
| Zwischenfall in Benderath | , | Drama | ||||
| 1957 | ||||||
| Alter Kahn und junge Liebe | Hans Heinrich | Alfred Maack, Erika Dunkelmann | Romance | |||
| An der Via Egnatia – Historisches und Heutiges über Stadt und Messe | Karl Gass | Documentary, short | ||||
| Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser | Ekkehard Schall, Ilse Pagé | Crime | ||||
| Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag | Kurt Jung-Alsen | Rudolf Ulrich, Wolfgang Kieling | Drama | Entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Bärenburger Schnurre | Ralf Kirsten | Paul Heidemann, | Children's | |||
| Der Fackelträger | , | Drama | ||||
| Fridericus Rex – elfter Teil | Frank Beyer | , | Short | |||
| Gejagt bis zum Morgen | Manja Behrens, Raimund Schelcher | Drama | Based on 's novel Ein Prolet erzählt | |||
| Hellas ohne Götter | Karl Gass | Documentary, short | ||||
| Katzgraben | , Manfred Wekwerth | Friedrich Gnaß, Angelika Hurwicz | Drama | Television film, based on the play Katzgraben by Erwin Strittmatter | ||
| Kindergymnastik | Short | |||||
| Lissy | Konrad Wolf | Sonja Sutter, Horst Drinda | Drama | Based on Franz Carl Weiskopf's novel Die Versuchung | ||
| Mazurka der Liebe | Hans Müller | Bert Fortell, | Operetta | Based on Carl Millöcker's operetta Der Bettelstudent | ||
| Polonia-Ekspreß | Kurt Jung-Alsen | , | Drama | |||
| Rivalen am Steuer | Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler | Johannes Arpe, | Romance, sports | |||
| Schlösser und Katen | Kurt Maetzig | Raimund Schelcher, Erika Dunkelmann | Drama | |||
| Die Schönste | Willy A. Kleinau, | Drama | Banned and not shown publicly until 2002 | |||
| Sheriff Teddy | Heiner Carow | Käte Alving, | Children's | |||
| Das singende, klingende Bäumchen | Francesco Stefani | Christel Bodenstein, | Children's | Purchased and shown as a television series in Great Britain by the BBC | ||
| Skimeister von morgen | Ralf Kirsten | , | Drama, sports | |||
| Les Sorcières de Salem | Raymond Rouleau | Simone Signoret, Yves Montand | Historical drama | French-East German co-production; based on Arthur Miller's play The Crucible | ||
| Spielbank-Affäre | Arthur Pohl | Gertrud Kückelmann, Jan Hendriks | Crime | East German-Swedish co-production | ||
| Spur in die Nacht | Günter Reisch | Annekathrin Bürger, | Drama | |||
| Tanz in der Galerie | Gottfried Kolditz | Wolf Kaiser, | Short | |||
| Tinko | Josef Sieber, | Drama | ||||
| Vergeßt mir meine Traudel nicht | Kurt Maetzig | Eva-Maria Hagen, Horst Kube | Comedy | |||
| Die Windrose | Joris Ivens, Yannick Bellon, Alberto Cavalcanti, Sergei Gerasimov, Gillo Pontecorvo, | Yves Montand, Simone Signoret | Docudrama | |||
| Wo Du hin gehst | Martin Hellberg | , Gisela Trowe | Historical drama, romance | |||
| Zwei Mütter | Frank Beyer | , Helga Göring | Drama, war | |||
| Zwischen Himmel und Erde | Karl Gass | Documentary, short | ||||
| 1958 | ||||||
| Abenteuer in Bamsdorf | Konrad Petzold | , | Adventure, children's | |||
| Sonnensucher | Konrad Wolf | , Günther Simon | Drama | Banned and not shown publicly until 1972 | ||
| Emilia Galotti | Martin Hellberg | Karin Hübner, | Historical drama, romance | Based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Emilia Galotti | ||
| Die Feststellung | Herbert Fischer | , | Drama | |||
| Fiete im Netz | , | Children's | ||||
| Geschichte vom armen Hassan | Ekkehard Schall, Erwin Geschonneck | Children's | ||||
| Geschwader Fledermaus | Erich Engel | Wolfgang Heinz, Christine Laszar | Drama, war | |||
| Insel der Rosen | Karl Gass | Documentary, short | ||||
| Klotz am Bein | Frank Vogel | Horst Drinda, Christel Bodenstein | Comedy | |||
| Das Lied der Matrosen | Kurt Maetzig, Günter Reisch | , Raimund Schelcher | Historical drama | Entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| Der Lotterieschwede | Joachim Kunert | Erwin Geschonneck, Sonja Sutter | Drama | Based on Martin Andersen Nexø's novella Lotterisvensken | ||
| Meine Frau macht Musik | Hans Heinrich | , Günther Simon | Musical | |||
| Les Misérables | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier | Drama | French-East German-Italian co-production; based on Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables | ||
| Die Mutter | Manfred Wekwerth | Helene Weigel, Fred Düren | Drama | Based on Maxim Gorky's novel Mother | ||
| Ein Mädchen von 16 ½ | Carl Balhaus | , Hartmut Reck | Drama | |||
| Nur eine Frau | Carl Balhaus | Karla Runkehl, | Biographical, drama | Fictionalized biography of Louise Otto-Peters | ||
| Piloten, Propeller und Turbinen | Documentary, short | |||||
| Der Prozeß wird vertagt | Raimund Schelcher, Gerhard Bienert | Drama | ||||
| Reifender Sommer | Willy A. Kleinau, Gisela Uhlen | Drama | ||||
| Rocník 21 | Eva Kotthaus, Luděk Munzar | Drama | ||||
| Sie kannten sich alle | Richard Groschopp | Horst Drinda, Sonja Sutter | Crime | |||
| Tatort Berlin | Joachim Kunert | Hartmut Reck, | Crime | |||
| , Gerd Michael Henneberg | Biographical | Fictionalized biography of Tilman Riemenschneider | ||||
| Unternehmen Teutonenschwert | Andrew Thorndike, | Documentary | ||||
| 1959 | ||||||
| Documentary | ||||||
| Alte Liebe, Eine | Frank Beyer | Gisela May, Erich Franz | Drama | |||
| Bevor der Blitz einschlägt | Richard Groschopp | , Horst Drinda | Comedy | |||
| Brücke zwischen gestern und morgen | , Rudolf Ulrich | Drama | Television film | |||
| Claudia | , | Drama | ||||
| Die Dame und der Blinde | Albert Hetterle, Inge Keller | Television film | ||||
| Das Feuerzeug | Rolf Ludwig, Heinz Schubert | Fantasy | ||||
| Ehesache Lorenz | Joachim Kunert | Manja Behrens, | Drama | |||
| Erich Kubak | Karl Plintzner | Helga Göring, | Drama | |||
| General | ||||||
| Im Sonderauftrag | Heinz Thiel | Hans-Peter Minetti, Rolf Ludwig | Adventure | |||
| Zu jeder Stunde | Heinz Thiel | , | Drama | Released in 1960 | ||
| Kabale und Liebe | Martin Hellberg | Wolf Kaiser, Otto Mellies | Historical drama | Based on Friedrich Schiller's play Intrigue and Love | ||
| Kapitäne bleiben an Bord | Martin Hellberg | Johannes Arpe, Christel Bodenstein | Adventure | |||
| Der Kleine Kuno | Kurt Jung-Alsen | , Rudolf Ulrich | Children's | |||
| Maibowle | Günter Reisch | Erich Franz, Albert Hetterle | Comedy | |||
| Joachim Kunert | Documentary, short | |||||
| Musterknaben | Hartmut Reck, Rolf Herricht | Romantic comedy | ||||
| Natürlich die Nelli | Konrad Petzold | Evamaria Bath, | Children's | |||
| Die Premiere fällt aus | Kurt Jung-Alsen | Christine Laszar, | Crime | |||
| Reportage 57 | Annekathrin Bürger, Willi Schrade | Drama | ||||
| SAS 181 antwortet nicht | Carl Balhaus | Ulrich Thein, | Adventure | |||
| Senta auf Abwegen | Martin Hellberg | Günther Simon, | ||||
| Sie nannten ihn Amigo | Heiner Carow | Ernst-Georg Schwill, | Historical drama | |||
| Simplon-Tunnel | Gottfried Kolditz | Johannes Arpe, | Drama | |||
| Soldat und Sportler | Short | |||||
| Sterne | Konrad Wolf | , Jürgen Frohriep | Bulgarian-East German co-production; won the Special Jury Prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Die Stiere des Hidalgo | Karl Gass | Documentary, short | ||||
| Der verlorene Ball | Erika Dunkelmann, | Children's, short | ||||
| Verwirrung der Liebe | Slatan Dudow | Angelica Domröse, Annekathrin Bürger | Romantic comedy | |||
| Vom mutigen Hans | , | Animation, short | ||||
| Ware für Katalonien | Richard Groschopp | , Fritz Diez | Crime | |||
| Weißes Blut | Gottfried Kolditz | Christine Laszar, Jürgen Frohriep | Drama | |||
| Wie die Wilden | , | Television film | ||||
1960s[]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ||||||
| Daß ein gutes Deutschland blühe | ||||||
| Die Flucht aus der Hölle | ||||||
| Fünf Patronenhülsen | Frank Beyer | |||||
| Five Days, Five Nights | , Heinz Thiel | |||||
| Hatifa | ||||||
| Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall | Kurt Jung-Alsen | |||||
| Kein Ärger mit Cleopatra | ||||||
| Die schöne Lurette | Gottfried Kolditz | |||||
| Seilergasse 8 | Joachim Kunert | |||||
| Was wäre, wenn...? | Gerhard Klingenberg | |||||
| Wo der Zug nicht lange hält... | ||||||
| Alwin der Letzte | ||||||
| Der Schweigende Stern | Kurt Maetzig | science fiction | ||||
| 1961 | ||||||
| Das Kleid | Konrad Petzold | |||||
| Der Arzt von Bothenow | ||||||
| Der Fall Gleiwitz | ||||||
| Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot | Richard Groschopp | |||||
| Flitterwochen ohne Ehemann | ||||||
| Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder | Peter Palitzsch | Prize at the Locarno Festival | ||||
| Professor Mamlock | Konrad Wolf | Entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge | Gottfried Kolditz | |||||
| Septemberliebe | Kurt Maetzig | |||||
| 1962 | ||||||
| Das verhexte Fischerdorf | ||||||
| Ach du fröhliche... | Günter Reisch | |||||
| Auf der Sonnenseite | Ralf Kirsten | |||||
| Christine und die Störche | ||||||
| Freispruch mangels Beweises | Richard Groschopp | |||||
| Das grüne Ungeheuer | ||||||
| Die Jagd nach dem Stiefel | Konrad Petzold | |||||
| Minna von Barnhelm | Martin Hellberg | |||||
| Rotkäppchen | Götz Friedrich | |||||
| Schaut auf diese Stadt | Karl Gass | |||||
| Revue um Mitternacht | Gottfried Kolditz | Musical comedy | ||||
| 1963 | ||||||
| Beschreibung eines Sommers | Ralf Kirsten | |||||
| For Eyes Only | ||||||
| Frau Holle | Gottfried Kolditz | |||||
| Die Glatzkopfbande | Richard Groschopp | |||||
| Die Hochzeit von Länneken | Heiner Carow | |||||
| Geheimarchiv an der Elbe | Kurt Jung-Alsen | |||||
| Reserviert für den Tod | Heinz Thiel | |||||
| Karbid und Sauerampfer | Frank Beyer | |||||
| Nackt unter Wölfen | Frank Beyer | Entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Der Schwur des Soldaten Pooley | Kurt Jung-Alsen | |||||
| 1964 | ||||||
| Engel im Fegefeuer | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
| Das Lied vom Trompeter | Konrad Petzold | |||||
| Geliebte weiße Maus | Gottfried Kolditz | |||||
| Der Geteilte Himmel | Konrad Wolf | |||||
| Die Goldene Gans | ||||||
| Viel Lärm um nichts | Martin Hellberg | |||||
| 1965 | ||||||
| Ohne Pass in fremden Betten | ||||||
| Denk bloß nicht, ich heule | ||||||
| Der Reserveheld | ||||||
| Die antike Münze | ||||||
| Entlassen auf Bewährung | Richard Groschopp | |||||
| Karl Liebknecht – Solange Leben in mir ist. | Günter Reisch | Horst Schulze | ||||
| Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt | Joachim Kunert | Entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Chronik eines Mordes | ||||||
| Das Kaninchen bin ich | Kurt Maetzig | |||||
| 1966 | ||||||
| Alfons Zitterbacke | Konrad Petzold | |||||
| Elf Jahre alt | ||||||
| Flucht ins Schweigen | ||||||
| Reise ins Ehebett | ||||||
| Spur der Steine | Frank Beyer | |||||
| Das Tal der sieben Monde | Gottfried Kolditz | |||||
| Der Frühling braucht Zeit | ||||||
| Der Lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Mörders | ||||||
| 1967 | ||||||
| Der tapfere Schulschwänzer | ||||||
| Brot und Rosen | Horst E. Brandt, Heinz Thiel | Entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Chingachgook, die große Schlange | Richard Groschopp | |||||
| Die Fahne von Kriwoj Rog | Kurt Maetzig | |||||
| Frau Venus und ihr Teufel | Ralf Kirsten | |||||
| Frozen Flashes | ||||||
| Die Heiden von Kummerow und ihre lustigen Streiche | Werner Jacobs | |||||
| Heißer Sommer | ||||||
| Heroin | ||||||
| Hochzeitsnacht im Regen | Horst Seemann | |||||
| Ein Lord am Alexanderplatz | Günter Reisch | |||||
| Das Mädchen auf dem Brett | Kurt Maetzig | |||||
| Meine Freundin Sybille | ||||||
| 1968 | ||||||
| Abschied | Egon Günther | |||||
| Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle | Werner W. Wallroth | |||||
| Käuzchenkuhle | ||||||
| Leben zu zweit | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
| Das siebente Jahr | Frank Vogel | |||||
| Spur des Falken | Gottfried Kolditz | |||||
| 1969 | ||||||
| Weil ich dich liebe... | ||||||
| Weiße Wölfe | Konrad Petzold | |||||
| Weite Straßen – stille Liebe | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
| Zeit zu leben | Horst Seemann | |||||
| Seine Hoheit – Genosse Prinz | ||||||
| Netzwerk | Ralf Kirsten | |||||
| Im Spannungsfeld | ||||||
| Jungfer, Sie gefällt mir | Günter Reisch | |||||
| He, Du! | Rolf Römer | |||||
| Hart am Wind | Heinz Thiel | |||||
| Du bist min (Ein deutsches Tagebuch) | Andrew Thorndike, |
Documentary | Entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival | |||
1970s[]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ||||||
| Dr. med. Sommer II | Lothar Warneke | |||||
| Effi Briest | ||||||
| Goya (Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis) | Konrad Wolf | Entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Konrad Petzold | ||||||
| Hans Kratzert | ||||||
| 1971 | ||||||
| Zeit der Störche | ||||||
| Osceola | Konrad Petzold | |||||
| 1972 | ||||||
| Der Dritte | Egon Günther | |||||
| Karl Liebknecht – Trotz alledem! | Günter Reisch | Horst Schulze | ||||
| Die Elixiere des Teufels | Ralf Kirsten | |||||
| Eolomea | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
| Kurt Maetzig | ||||||
| Egon Günther | ||||||
| Lothar Warneke | ||||||
| Tecumseh | Hans Kratzert | Gojko Mitić, Annekathrin Bürger | Western | |||
| 1973 | ||||||
| Gottfried Kolditz | ||||||
| Reife Kirschen | Horst Seemann | Entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Three Nuts for Cinderella | Václav Vorlíček | Libuše Šafránková, Pavel Trávníček | fairy-tale | Czechoslovak-East German co-production | ||
| Günter Reisch | ||||||
| Ralf Kirsten | ||||||
| The Legend of Paul and Paula | Heiner Carow | |||||
| 1974 | ||||||
| Konrad Petzold | ||||||
| Lothar Warneke | ||||||
| Ulzana | Gottfried Kolditz | |||||
| Bernhard Stephan | ||||||
| 1975 | ||||||
| Blood Brothers | Werner W. Wallroth | Dean Reed, Gojko Mitic | Western | |||
| Jacob the Liar | Frank Beyer | Vlastimil Brodský | Brodský won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | |||
| Ralf Kirsten | ||||||
| Between Day and Night | Horst E. Brandt | Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| 1976 | ||||||
| Günter Reisch | ||||||
| Werner W. Wallroth | ||||||
| Die Leiden des jungen Werthers | Egon Günther | |||||
| 1977 | ||||||
| The Incorrigible Barbara | Lothar Warneke | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Mama, I'm Alive | Konrad Wolf | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| 1978 | ||||||
| Anton the Magician | Günter Reisch | Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Herrmann Zschoche | ||||||
| Rainer Simon | ||||||
| Jörg Ratgeb – Painter | Bernhard Stephan | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| 1979 | ||||||
| Herrmann Zschoche | Produced 1977, released 1979 | |||||
1980s[]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||||||
| Jadup and Boel | Rainer Simon | Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Solo Sunny | Konrad Wolf, Wolfgang Kohlhaase | Renate Krößner | Krößner won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin | |||
| Herrmann Zschoche | ||||||
| Herrmann Zschoche | ||||||
| Horst Seemann | ||||||
| 1981 | ||||||
| Bürgschaft für ein Jahr | Herrmann Zschoche | Katrin Saß | Saß won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin | |||
| Mephisto | István Szabó | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Rolf Hoppe, Krystyna Janda, Karin Boyd | Hungarian-East German-West German-Austrian co-production | |||
| Our Short Life | Lothar Warneke | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Dean Reed | ||||||
| 1982 | ||||||
| Romance with Amelie | Ulrich Thein | Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| Herrmann Zschoche | ||||||
| Bernhard Stephan | ||||||
| 1983 | ||||||
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| Zille and Me | Werner W. Wallroth | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| 1984 | ||||||
| Gunther Scholz | ||||||
| Frank Beyer | ||||||
| Herrmann Zschoche | ||||||
| Wo andere schweigen | Ralf Kirsten | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Lothar Warneke | ||||||
| 1985 | ||||||
| The Woman and the Stranger | Rainer Simon | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin | ||||
| Frank Vogel | ||||||
| 1986 | ||||||
| The House on the River | Roland Gräf | Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| So Many Dreams | Heiner Carow | Entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| Bernhard Stephan | ||||||
| Günter Reisch | ||||||
| 1987 | ||||||
| Herrmann Zschoche | ||||||
| Vernehmung der Zeugen | Gunther Scholz | Entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| Vorspiel | ||||||
| 1988 | ||||||
| Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Lothar Warneke | Manfred Möck, Jörg Pose | Möck and Pose won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin | |||
| Fallada: The Last Chapter | Roland Gräf | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| Frank Beyer | Götz George, Rolf Hoppe, Otto Sander | |||||
| 1989 | ||||||
| Rainer Simon | Jan Josef Liefers | East German-West German co-production | ||||
| Coming Out | Heiner Carow | Matthias Freihof, Dirk Kummer, Dagmar Manzel | Won the Silver Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Pestalozzi's Mountain | Peter von Gunten | Gian Maria Volonté | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Treffen in Travers | Michael Gwisdek | , Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Kockisch | Screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Herrmann Zschoche | ||||||
| Zum Teufel mit Harbolla | Bodo Fürneisen | Comedy | Set in 1956 | |||
| 1990 | ||||||
| Die Architekten | ||||||
See also[]
- Cinema of Germany
- Culture of East Germany
- DEFA (film studio)
- DEFA Film Library
- Film censorship in East Germany
- List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film#East Germany
- Lists of German films
- Ostern (Eastern-bloc Westerns)
Notes[]
- ^ Filmuniversität Babelsberg website (in English)
- ^ "PROGRESS". Retrieved February 23, 2021.
External links[]
- East German film at the Internet Movie Database
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