‘Into the Forest’: Folktales at DEFA (1955-1977)
These visually arresting and luridly colourful pictures drew on the works of authors such as Wilhelm Hauff, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm.
THE MARQUIS OF O (1976)
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
CHRISTIANE F. (1981)
A teenage girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin, befriending a group of junkies and falling in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006)
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
DAS EXPERIMENT (2001)
For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison.
KINGS OF THE ROAD (1976)
A projection-equipment mechanic working along the East-German border meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and they decide to travel together.
HEART OF STONE (1950)
A poor charcoal burner seeks help from forest spirits to gain wealth and marry.
VICTORIA (2015)
A young Spanish woman newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
SEPTEMBER 5 (2024)
An American TV crew at the 1972 Munich Olympics finds itself covering a terrorist hostage crisis.
NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979)
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
VAMPYR (1932)
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
NOSFERATU (1922)
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and a real estate agent's wife.