Erich Honecker
Biography: Erich Honecker was a German politician who, as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until 1989.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 25, 1912
Deathday: May 29, 1994
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Karl Marx und seine Erben
2018-04-28
Karl Marx und seine Erben
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-04-28
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Palast der Republik – Haus des Volkes
1976-01-10
Palast der Republik – Haus des Volkes
Overview: A documentary about the planning and construction of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-10
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Die Sekretäre
1999-10-07
Die Sekretäre
Overview: The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together, Ulbricht and Honecker determined the course of the GDR, of course without ever getting out of being a satellite state to the big brother in Moscow. The film looks for the caesura and crucial points in the power game between Ulbricht and Honecker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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Martin Luther
1981-12-01
Martin Luther
Overview: Using some unique documents and pictures, this colour film shows the life and work of Martin Luther in the context of his own time and his relevance to our time. Most of the places associated with Luther, the great Reformer and translator of the Bible, are in the GDR. Thousands upon thousands of tourists visit these places every year and learn how his legacy is kept alive and how it is protected today and for the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-12-01
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Return to Dresden
1986-01-01
Return to Dresden
Overview: In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient city of Dresden. This short documentary returns exactly 40 years after its destruction and celebrates its renaissance with the re-opening of one of the most beautiful opera houses in Europe. One guest at this gala was the Canadian navigator of one of the bomber planes, returning to Dresden on a mission of peace that brought him face-to-face with the people who were once his enemies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979-01-01
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Overview: About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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This Ain't California
2012-08-15
This Ain't California
Overview: A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.
Genres: Documentary History Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-08-15
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102 Berlin - Palast der Republik
1976-10-01
102 Berlin - Palast der Republik
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Republic of Zambia
1979-01-01
Republic of Zambia
Overview: Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Alles Lüge
1992-04-09
Alles Lüge
Overview: Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful businessman, while Kasulke tries to continue working on the comedy circuit - without success. When his wife also cheats on him, he decides to start a new life in Berlin. There he quickly meets his old friend Portmann, who has built up a huge company. He offers him a job. But Erich puts the entire company in danger...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-04-09
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Stasi FC
2025-03-27
Stasi FC
Overview: Tracing a decade of East German football, survivors of the Cold War tell a story of betrayal, murder, and manipulation in a revealing insight into how the Stasi secret police saw football as more than a game.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-27
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Stasi, un État contre son peuple
2021-10-03
Stasi, un État contre son peuple
Overview: After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-03
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Äthiopien voran
1981-01-01
Äthiopien voran
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Waiting for Fidel
1975-11-14
Waiting for Fidel
Overview: This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owner Geoff Stirling and NFB film director Michael Rubbo. What happens while the crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island. (NFB)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-14
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The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
2021-10-27
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
Overview: A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2021-10-27
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Honeckers letzte Reise
2019-05-22
Honeckers letzte Reise
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-05-22
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Der Maler Willi Sitte - Ein Leben zwischen Kunst und Politik
2021-11-14
Der Maler Willi Sitte - Ein Leben zwischen Kunst und Politik
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-11-14
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