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- The Sandman's everyday life, travels and fantastic adventures. The character often showcased socialist technological achievements, such as the use of awe-inspiring vehicles like futuristic cars and flying devices.
- Orpheus in the underworld.
- An interview with former Nazi and mercenary Siegfried Müller about his life and war campaigns.
- A 74-year-old man is standing in front of the Dresden district court. After more than forty years, the former highly decorated SS man was brought to the scene of his crimes. The process is the cinematic framework in which the background and mechanisms of the social system of nationalism are revealed by retracing the social development of this SS man.
- Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.
- The tragic love story between 17 year-old Gerat Lauter, who is in search of the truth, and his much older teacher Claudia, as it becomes a criminal case with state complicity in the chaotic GDR autumn of 1989.
- A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are news reporters and tourists from all over the world taking pictures, children selling pieces of the wall to passers-by, and people celebrating New Year's Eve, on the other we see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks on their faces.
- A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary." - Elke Schieber, film historian
- "Das Jahr 1945" is a documentary which describes the last 128 days of World War II in Europe. The film covers the course of the war in chronological order, and discusses military tactics and the Nazi ideology. The viewer gets a sense of the conditions of the concentration camps, and the vast destruction of German cities while also hearing speeches and interviews from prominent Nazis. When the Red Army finally liberates East Germany from the chaos of the war, they are portrayed here as valiant heroes.
- Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie features young people using music to express their take on life, opposition to their parents' generation and opinions on the social and political climate in East Germany. It includes clips from concerts and interviews with fans and members of various bands, such as Feeling B's Christian Lorenz and Paul Landers, now members of Rammstein. This documentary, shot in 35mm, played to over one million viewers in sold-out theaters in East Germany. Audiences were drawn not only to see their favorite bands on the screen; they were also surprised that this film made it past the censors.
- A documentary of the Young Pioneers in the 1950's. Including segments: Young Pioneers build a glider at a summer camp on the Baltic; a trip on the sailboat school Wilhelm Pieck; a cross-country game in the mountains; an expedition of the Havel; and a visit to the Thomas Muentzer Stadt Muehlhausen. The highpoint is the Young Pioneer Convention in Dresden. The song written for this film, Die Heimat hat sich schoen gemacht, und Tau blitzt ihr im Haar (Home has made itself beautiful, and dew glistens in her hair) became an East German folk song.
- A report on the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The soundtrack is a composition done earlier by Hanns Eisler.
- Our Children is a documentary about different youth groups found in the GDR, particularly the young anti-Fascist group. Different young people are interviewed about their coming to terms with their history, country and society. Christa Wolf and Stefan Heym are among those interviewed.
- Frank K. is 22 years old. In March 1990 he is released prematurely from the Berlin Rummelsburg prison, having served a 2 1/2-year sentence. His childhood was spent in a home and his life has been a harsh reality ever since. March 1990: he feels fear, but also a spark of hope. Listening to him means getting involved and realizing that he - and in fact all of us - are lost without solidarity.
- A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours of few shunters at the shunting-station Dresden-Friedrichstadt, which was the largest such station in all of the former German Democratic Republic. They work day and night, amidst snow and fog at the railway tracks, speaking only as much as necessary.
- The documentary shows environmental damage to the forests in the German Ore Mountains and locals' attempts to repair it.
- About the Hungarian poet Miklos Radnóti (1909-1944) who was murdered by the Nazis, Eduard Schreiber goes with the viewer on the death march that Radnóti had to walk in the middle of a column of forced laborers. With him you come to the village where he wrote his last poem, with him you enter the path on which he was killed.