Deutsche Erstausstrahlung: 26.02.1982 DDR1
In Bad Grenzbrunn, einem bekannten Heilbad zur Zeit der Habsburger, beherbergt das luxurise Hotel der Familie Polan Gste aus aller Welt. Man neidet der jüdischen Familie ihren Besitz und versucht, sie aus dem Ort zu drngen. Bei Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs lsst Filip Polan seine auslndischen Stammgste nicht als Feinde“ internie...
High up north, in the Stralsund People’s Dockyard, Gitta Nickel encounters a youth brigade whose members speak frankly: “I’m 27 now. Judging from my own example I can say: it’s been nothing but work, really nothing. I can really say that about me, stark and stiff.” Stralsund as the focal point of socialist conditions of value creation: A ship may be completed every two weeks, b...
A creative and skilful montage as well as dramatically spot-on sound and music effects are combined in a snappy plot to offer a mordant commentary on the constitutionally enshrined equality of men and women in the GDR. The film was awarded a medal at the 1982 congress of UNICA, the Union Internationale du Cinéma, in Aachen.
"Der Hauptmann von Kln" is a DEFA propaganda comedy movie that deals with faschist networks in postwar West-Germany. Main character is the waiter Hans Albert Hauptmann who accidentally runs into a meeting of ex-Wehrmacht combatants. They mistake him with a high nazi officer and he is considered to be just returned from his exile in Argentina. He does not clarify his identity s...
Die zehnjhrige Kathy Montag ist mit ihrem Vater - die Mutter ist vor einigen Jahren gestorben - von einem Dorf im Harz nach Brandenburg gezogen. Der Umzug soll gefeiert werden, und Kathy bekommt den Auftrag, dafür einzukaufen. Sie geht durch die Stadt und vergisst den Auftrag, als sie zwei gleichaltrige Kinder trifft. Schlielich landet sie mit ihnen bei einer Brigadefeier und...
Berlin in the 1950s. Kalle, 13, lives with his family in Wedding in West Berlin. He is crazy about Wild West novels. Proudly sporting a sheriff’s star on his jacket, he is the leader of the “Teddy Gang”, a clique of boys of his age. When Kalle’s family moves to the eastern sector of the city, he finds it difficult to adjust to his new surroundings. His self-confident, gruff man...
