Peter Gotthardt Movies

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a...

Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to...

In an enchanted forest, the princely brothers Michael and Andreas get lost and are transformed, by a mountain spirit who jealously guards his...

A feuilletonistic conversation with the movie audience about the question: How do you feel about going to the movies? In general - and especially in...

The documentary reports on the most important stages of Thomas Müntzer's life, from his birthplace in Stolberg to his place of death in the...

Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get married and have a child. When Sonya wants to go...

Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprised and ends up back in prison, where he is trained...

It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During...

Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by...

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the...

"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropolis of East Berlin. As an emphatically lively,...

Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to...

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

A railway line is to be laid through remote Lusatian farmland. Surveyors herald the “new era” with their work. The events also leave...

A portrait of Helga Hörz, professor of ethics and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

The compilation film looks back on four decades of East German film production to mark the 40th anniversary of DEFA. Beginning with the founding...

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has...

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their...

1929: Marie Lehning, a farm worker from Warmsdorf on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the fisherman's son Mingo. Both complete an apprenticeship in...