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1) Barbara
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. She must weigh her absolute dedication to her patients against a potential escape to the West, and her newfound attraction to a doctor in whom she sees a kindred spirit.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Tells the incredible true story of a massive underground escape attempt from East to West Berlin. Anti-communist East German swimming champion Harry Melchior narrowly escapes the Communist regime just after the Berlin Wall is completed, and is determined to rescue his beloved sister, whom he was forced to leave behind" -- Container.
3) Balloon
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the summer of 1979, two East German families attempt the impossible. In a makeshift hot-air balloon, they risk their lives and fly towards West Germany with hopes of freedom and a better life. Unfortunately, the balloon crash-lands just before they reach the West German border and the Stasi soon discover evidence of the attempted escape. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the two families must now rush to build a new escape balloon before...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Deutsch
Description
It's 1983. The Cold War is hot. The threat of nuclear conflict looms. Born and raised in East Germany, Martin Rauch is sent undercover, as Moritz Stamm, to West Germany, to work for a top General in the Bundeswehr. Officially, his job is to gather intelligence on the placement of the Pershing II Missiles. A secondary gig develops, infiltrating youth culture through close relationships with the General's two children. But nothing and no one are as...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
It is a sweeping family saga of conflicting loyalties, betrayal, love and hope, set in 1980s East Berlin. Uwe Kockisch Hans Kupfer, is a Stasi officer whose youngest son, Martin, falls in love with the daughter of a dissident singer. Their love affair sets events into motion which affect both families over a turbulent decade. The Kupfers and the Hausmanns could hardly be more different.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Autumn, 1989. The Iron Curtain is falling, and the changing political climate takes its toll on the Kupfer family. Martin Kupfer tries to get his daughter back, with the aid of a West German reporter. His brother Falk belongs to a group of hardcore Stasi officers who are prepared to do anything to preserve Communist power. His father, Hans, opposes any movement that has the potential for getting out of control.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
It is a sweeping family saga of conflicting loyalties, betrayal, love and hope, set in 1980s East Berlin. Uwe Kockisch Hans Kupfer, is a Stasi officer whose youngest son, Martin, falls in love with the daughter of a dissident singer. Their love affair sets events into motion which affect both families over a turbulent decade. The Kupfers and the Hausmanns could hardly be more different.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Examines the Soviet Union's collapse through the goofball misadventures of one Russian soldier stranded in East Berlin after the fall of the wall. Makavejev shows us part of the sea of change in Eastern Europe by following the absurdly optimistic Major Victor Borisovich after his entire army unit deserts.
9) Coming out
Publisher
DEFA Film Library, U Mass
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Tanya and Philip work together and are both dedicated teachers. They become close and move in together. Tanya is very much in love and gets pregnant. Things get complicated for Philipp when he meets Matthias, however, as they fall passionately in love, Philipp struggles with his identity and what to do; it is hard to overcome years of repressing his sexuality.
10) Yella
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Following a near-death experience, a young woman flees her East German hometown and failed marriage to start over in Hanover. By chance she finds work with an ambitious and determined executive and enters a ruthless world of big business and cut-throat boardroom deals. But just as she seems poised to fully realize her ambitions, she finds herself haunted by truths from the past that threaten to destroy her new life.
11) Night crossing
Series
Publisher
Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, Night Crossing chronicles the perils of two East German families as they attempt to cross over the Berlin Wall and escape to the freedom of the West in a hot-air balloon.
12) Fatherland
Series
Publisher
Twilight Time, Red Jam, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Fatherland is singular director Ken Loach's excursion into the world of European cinema, an ambitious film--written by Trevor Griffiths--about an East German singer-songwriter who exchanges the political repression of his home country for the new pressures of capitalism in the West. The search for his lost father and a skittish relationship with a journalist only add to the young artist's turmoil, beautifully captured by the camera of the brilliant...
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