Mdr Movies

A woman from a big city moves to a small village near the former border zone between East and West Germany. What is she looking for? What will she e...

Former East Germany, punk music, the wall, betrayal, jail, exit for the West: a film confronting these things on the offensive – and seeing its view o...

In her documentary, director Sabine Michel revisits her own experiences during the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Germany's subsequent reunificat...

A drama directed by Martin Buchhorn based on the novel by Günter Grass.

Four female politicians with East German backgrounds - Anke Domscheit-Berg, Manuela Schwesig, Yvonne Magwas and Frauke Petry - analyse German history...

Lothar König is an original. The long-term youth pastor from Jena doesn’t fit into any system. In the GDR he was under state surveillance, after reuni...

Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania,...

The river Oder: A historical and cultural land-scape churned again and again by the tide of events of the past century. A tale told in concentric circ...

Is there still Nazi loot hidden in buried bunkers on the Buchenwald concentration camp? Historians and scientists try to solve an old mystery.

In a world divided by the Iron Curtain, East Germany sought to carve its niche in the technological race. Enter "Robotron" - a name that seamlessly bl...

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia will be the first ever to be held in a subtropical resort. The most expensive games ever break all records w...