Peter Gotthardt Movies

The Oppen family has lived in Berlin, Griesener Straße, for generations. The first names of the family members are also repeated, so the...

Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of...

"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropolis of East Berlin. As an emphatically lively,...

The documentary reports on the most important stages of Thomas Müntzer's life, from his birthplace in Stolberg to his place of death in the...

Anton and his family moved into a high-rise building. In order for the new neighbors to accept his trumpet music, he has to perform a little...

They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration. They visit Weimar, the...

Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to...

Florian is the son an army general and very proud of him. When his father has to attend the annual 1st of May demonstration, Florian grabs his teddy...

Martina and Jürgen are lovers in the GDR. She is studying economics in Leipzig, he is preparing for his master's examination as a violin maker...

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has...

This documentary about the Buchenwald concentration camp features interviews with survivors who describe their memories and experiences. The...

Documentary film about the agricultural and industrial district in Thuringia. The focus is on the district town of Erfurt, with Gotha, Eisenach and...

A part of Earth's population are greedy and power-obsessed. They eat up and destroy everything. All of a sudden the planet Earth decides not to carry...

A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys...

Documentary about Albrecht Dürer to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth. The film presents a panorama of the German Renaissance, in which...

The compilation film looks back on four decades of East German film production to mark the 40th anniversary of DEFA. Beginning with the founding...

Documentary short about artist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938).