List of East German films
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This is a list, in year order of the most notable films produced in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany and the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany, DDR in German) from 1945 until the German Reunification in October 1990.
The East german DEFA produced between 1946 and 1992 ca 800 feature movies. Besides the DEFA were only the states broadcaster DFF and the university HFF two organizations, who produced feature movies for a cinematic release in a much smaler quantity. The DEFA also produced ca. 750 animated movies and more than 2.500 documentaries and short subject films.
For an alphabetical list of articles on East German films see Category:East German films.
1945–1949 (the Soviet Sector of Germany)
Note that the German Democratic Republic formally came into existence in October 1949.
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1980 | ||||||
Jadup and Boel | Rainer Simon | Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Solo Sunny | Konrad Wolf, Wolfgang Kohlhaase | Renate Krößner | Krößner won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin | |||
Pugowitza | Jürgen Brauer | |||||
Und nächstes Jahr am Balaton | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
Glück im Hinterhaus | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
Levins Mühle | Horst Seemann | |||||
1981 | ||||||
Bürgschaft für ein Jahr | Herrmann Zschoche | Katrin Saß | Saß won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin | |||
Die fliegende Windmühle | Günter Rätz | |||||
Our Short Life | Lothar Warneke | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Sing, Cowboy Sing | Dean Reed | |||||
1982 | ||||||
Romance with Amelie | Ulrich Thein | Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
Der Prinz hinter den sieben Meeren | Walter Beck | |||||
Sabine Kleist, 7 Jahre... | Helmut Dziuba | |||||
Die Gerechten von Kummerow | Wolfgang Luderer | |||||
Insel der Schwäne | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
Der lange Ritt zur Schule | Rolf Losansky | |||||
Sonjas Rapport | Bernhard Stephan | |||||
1983 | ||||||
Bockshorn | Frank Beyer | |||||
Erscheinen Pflicht | Helmut Dziuba | |||||
Moritz in der Litfaßsäule | Christa Kozik, Rolf Losansky | |||||
Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe | Siegfried Kühn | |||||
Die vertauschte Königin | Dieter Scharfenberg | |||||
Zille and Me | Werner W. Wallroth | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
1984 | ||||||
Ab heute erwachsen | Gunther Scholz | |||||
Hälfte des Lebens | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
Isabel auf der Treppe | Hannelore Unterberg | |||||
Wo andere schweigen | Ralf Kirsten | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Eine sonderbare Liebe | Lothar Warneke | |||||
1985 | ||||||
The Woman and the Stranger | Rainer Simon | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin | ||||
Atkins | Helge Trimpert | |||||
Ete und Ali | Peter Kahane | |||||
Die Gänse von Bützow | Frank Vogel | |||||
Der Haifischfütterer | Erwin Stranka | |||||
Junge Leute in der Stadt | Karl Heinz Lotz | |||||
1986 | ||||||
The House on the River | Roland Gräf | Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
So Many Dreams | Heiner Carow | Entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
Fahrschule | Bernhard Stephan | |||||
Wie die Alten sungen | Günter Reisch | |||||
1987 | ||||||
Die Alleinseglerin | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
Die Entfernung zwischen dir und mir und ihr | Micael Kann | |||||
Das Schulgespenst | Rolf Losansky | |||||
Vernehmung der Zeugen | Gunther Scholz | Entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Vorspiel | Peter Kahane | |||||
1988 | ||||||
Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Lothar Warneke | Manfred Möck, Jörg Pose | Möck and Pose won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin | |||
Fallada: The Last Chapter | Roland Gräf | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
Der Bruch | Frank Beyer | |||||
1989 | ||||||
Coming Out | Heiner Carow | Won the Silver Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
Pestalozzi's Mountain | Peter von Gunten | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
Grüne Hochzeit | Herrmann Zschoche | |||||
Ein brauchbarer Mann | Hans-Werner Honert | |||||
Zum Teufel mit Harbolla | Bodo Fürneisen | Comedy | Set in 1956 | |||
1990 | ||||||
Verbotene Liebe (East German film) | Helmut Dziuba | |||||
Die Architekten | Peter Kahane |