Konrad Wolf

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life as a whole. (imdb)

A semi-autobiographical film dealing with the hardships of a young German emigre as he returns home to Germany at the end of World War II. As a member of the Red Army's scouting division, he must come to grips with fighting against men from his homeland, as he attempts to bring the war to a peaceful end so that he may return home.

The tragic love of the Jewish girl and the Nazi officer is presented as a symbol of human purity defeated by fascism and racial prejudice. (imdb)

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village. It is 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; his enthusiasm about his new chemical process, which turned to bitter disappointment in the face of rejection; his escape to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built; and his hope that she would follow him. (imdb)

Der unter dem Tarnnamen "Wismutbergbau" betriebene Uranbergbau der SDAG Wismut führt im Erzgebirge zahlreiche Menschen mit unterschiedlichstem Charakter auf engem Raum zusammen. Dazu zählen auch die beiden Frauen Lotte und Emmi aus Berlin, die bei einer dortigen Razzia aufgegriffen wurden und sich nun im Bergbau bewähren sollen.[...] (de.wikipedia.org)

"Busch singt" consists of 6 films "About the first part of our century" and does not present Ernst Busch only as a singer but is a film with and about Busch as a chronicler and fighter for communist ideals of his time. (imdb)

Professor Hans Mamlock is the distinguished chief of surgery in a university hospital. The year is 1933, and although the Professor is Jewish, he remains unconcerned with politics and the growing Nazi threat. Mamlock identifies strongly as a German, and he believes his culture to be simply incapable of the common barbarism associated with the Nazi party. Accordingly, he shows little understanding for people with strong or unpopular political views. (DEFA Film Library)

Four young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and Russians and are difficult to live up to when they are sent behind German lines. (DEFA Film Library)