Movies: Ernst-Georg Schwill

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin,...

On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GDR refused obedience to their political leadership. The story takes place in Bitterfeld and tells the story of a family involved in the political event...

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In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will not take part in this war. This resolution signifies a turning point in his life; a farewell to his cl...

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Ten years old Ernst and his father Alfons are traveling to the family event on their bikes....

On the way to the holiday camp, 16-year-old Steffi falls in love with Norbert, whom she has known for a long time from visiting grandfather in Pinnow. She made a quick decision to change her future plans and decided to become a milker, because Norber...

Comedy - Flora (Isabella Parkinson) the librarian is hitchhiking to a job in a faraway town. Simplehearted plumber Tim (Oliver Reinhard) is headed to the Black Forest, a cow for his nuptials in tow. But when their paths intersect, the cow isn't the o...

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Wood engineer Richard lives a life like a construction. Highly engaged in his career his private life consists of nothing but short purely sexual affairs. When he first meets Teresa everything changes. The unexpected tenderness, intimacy and the long...

Film by Werner W. Wallroth....

Set in 1986. After their train is hit by an avalanche in the alps, 30 year old Greta and five strangers find themselves trapped in the last car of a train, buried underneath the snow. On the radio they learn that a rescue operation is under way, but ...

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A fantasy story about the young boy Lutz who is looking, with two friends, for a missing magical bird....

Little Red Riding-Hood lives together with her parents in a house on the edge of the forest. Her friends are a bunny, a squirrel and a bear. The little girl is always prepared to help, friendly, innocent and even unsuspecting, for she does not hold a...

The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a strong comradeship. Among the workers are, for instance, young Rolf, whom everybody just calls "Lachtaube" and who always comes through for his co-worker...

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