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) from 1945 until German Reunification in October 1990.
The state owned East German film company DEFA produced about 800 feature films between 1946 and 1992. Besides DEFA, the state broadcaster DFF and the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst (now the Filmuniversität Babelsberg)[1] were the only other organizations in the GDR that produced feature films for cinematic release, although far fewer than DEFA. DEFA also produced about 750 animated movies and more than 2500 documentaries and short films.
DEFA feature films are accessible and licensable as part of DEFA's entire film heritage on the PROGRESS archive platform.[2]
For an alphabetical list of articles on East German films see .
Note that the German Democratic Republic formally came into existence in October 1949.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
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1970 | |||||
Dr. med. Sommer II | |||||
Effi Briest | |||||
Goya (Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis) | Entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Kennen Sie Urban? | |||||
Tödlicher Irrtum | |||||
Wir kaufen eine Feuerwehr | |||||
1971 | |||||
Anflug Alpha 1 | |||||
Hut ab, wenn du küßt! | |||||
Zeit der Störche | |||||
Osceola | |||||
Der Mann, der nach der Oma kam | |||||
1972 | |||||
Der Dritte | |||||
Karl Liebknecht – Trotz alledem! | Günter Reisch | Horst Schulze | |||
Die Elixiere des Teufels | |||||
Eolomea | |||||
Januskopf | |||||
Laut und leise ist die Liebe | |||||
Die Schlüssel | |||||
Florentiner 73 | |||||
Es ist eine alte Geschichte | |||||
Tecumseh | Hans Kratzert | Gojko Mitić, Annekathrin Bürger | Western | ||
1973 | |||||
Apachen | |||||
Comedy | |||||
Reife Kirschen | Entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Three Wishes for Cinderella | Václav Vorlíček | Libuše Šafránková, Pavel Trávníček | fairy-tale | Czechoslovak-East German co-production | |
Wie füttert man einen Esel | |||||
Wolz – Leben und Verklärung eines deutschen Anarchisten | |||||
Unterm Birnbaum | |||||
The Legend of Paul and Paula | |||||
1974 | |||||
Leben mit Uwe | |||||
Ulzana | |||||
Zum Beispiel Josef | |||||
Looping | |||||
Für die Liebe noch zu mager? | |||||
1975 | |||||
Blood Brothers | Western | ||||
Jacob the Liar | Brodský won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | ||||
Die Moral der Banditen | |||||
Eine Pyramide für mich | |||||
Between Day and Night | Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
1976 | |||||
Unterwegs nach Atlantis | |||||
Nelken in Aspik | |||||
Liebesfallen | |||||
1977 | |||||
The Incorrigible Barbara | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Mama, I'm Alive | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
1978 | |||||
Anton the Magician | Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Sabine Wulff | |||||
Drama | East German-Swiss co-production | ||||
Zünd an, es kommt die Feuerwehr | |||||
Jörg Ratgeb – Painter | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
1979 | |||||
Produced 1977, released 1979 | |||||
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
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1980 | |||||
Jadup and Boel | Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Levins Mühle | |||||
Pugowitza | |||||
Solo Sunny | Krößner won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin | ||||
1981 | |||||
Bürgschaft für ein Jahr | Saß won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin | ||||
Die fliegende Windmühle | |||||
Mephisto | Hungarian-East German-West German-Austrian co-production | ||||
Our Short Life | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Sing, Cowboy Sing | |||||
1982 | |||||
Die Gerechten von Kummerow | |||||
Der lange Ritt zur Schule | |||||
Der Prinz hinter den sieben Meeren | |||||
Romance with Amelie | Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
Sabine Kleist, 7 Jahre... | |||||
Sonjas Rapport | |||||
1983 | |||||
Erscheinen Pflicht | |||||
Moritz in der Litfaßsäule | |||||
The Turning Point | |||||
Die vertauschte Königin | |||||
Zille and Me | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
1984 | |||||
Ab heute erwachsen | |||||
Isabel auf der Treppe | |||||
Eine sonderbare Liebe | |||||
A Village Romeo and Juliet | |||||
Wo andere schweigen | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Woman Doctors | |||||
1985 | |||||
Atkins | |||||
Ete und Ali | |||||
Die Gänse von Bützow | |||||
Drama | West German-East German co-production | ||||
Der Haifischfütterer | |||||
Junge Leute in der Stadt | |||||
The Woman and the Stranger | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin | ||||
1986 | |||||
Fahrschule | |||||
The House on the River | Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
So Many Dreams | Entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
Wie die Alten sungen | |||||
1987 | |||||
Die Entfernung zwischen dir und mir und ihr | |||||
Sansibar oder der letzte Grund | Drama | Flight to Afar. East German-West German co-production | |||
Das Schulgespenst | |||||
Vernehmung der Zeugen | Entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
Vorspiel | |||||
1988 | |||||
Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Möck and Pose won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin | ||||
Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival | |||||
1989 | |||||
East German-West German co-production | |||||
Ein brauchbarer Mann | |||||
East German-West German co-production | |||||
Coming Out | Matthias Freihof, Dirk Kummer, Dagmar Manzel | Won the Silver Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
Pestalozzi's Mountain | East German-Swiss co-production. Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
Treffen in Travers | Screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
Zum Teufel mit Harbolla | Bodo Fürneisen | Comedy | Set in 1956 | ||
1990 | |||||
Die Architekten | |||||
Verbotene Liebe | Julia Brendler, Hans-Peter Dahm |