Gregor Gysi

Russland, Putin und wir Ostdeutsche (2022)

Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has fundamentally changed the German-Russian relationship. This is especially a special topic for those people who grew up in the GDR. Because what the USA were to many in the west, the Soviet Union was to many in the ea ...

Lebenslänglich Politik: Der ewige Schäuble (2022)

He has always been there. No one has been in German politics as long as Wolfgang Schäuble. He looked back on 50 years as a member of the German Bundestag. Schäuble was a man who helped shape the fate of the Republic for decades. He shaped politics - as t ...

Hier kommt Kurt! (2022)

He is versatile, he is unmistakable, he is one of Berlin's best-known and most popular artists: Frank Zander. The singer and entertainer, who many of his fans affectionately call "Franky Boy", is still not thinking about retiring after more than 50 years o ...

Die Ära Merkel - Gesichter einer Kanzlerin (2021)

On October 10, 2005, Angela Merkel becomes German Chancellor. After 16 years, she now wants to clear the field. We take a look back at the many different faces of our Chancellor. In addition to Wolfgang Bosbach, Gregor Gysi and Kai Diekmann, extreme mounta ...

Friedrich Engels - Der Unterschätzte (2020)

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to Marx, however, Engels seems to have fallen into oblivion today. Unjustly so. Moving archive images, documentary footage and graphic novels lead us back to t ...

Wagenknecht (2020)

Left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht's working day is marked by applause and admiration but also doubts and intrigues. This film follows her and her team: from the 2017 election campaign to her withdrawal from political leadership in 2019. ...

DDR - die entsorgte Republik (2019)

Harald Juhnke - That's Life (2019)

Harald Juhnke was a great entertainer, actor, comedian, singer, emcee and charmer. The stage was his life and success his drug, a life and a career with many ups and downs, triumphs and crashes. He loved his audience and the audience loved him. The film po ...

Rosa Luxemburg: Der Preis der Freiheit (2019)

One hundred years after the assassination of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), we look back at the struggles of this pioneer of the Workers' International. ...

trustWHO (2018)

Is the WHO sick? The filmmaker and mother Lilian Franck reveals clandestine influences by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and nuclear industries on the organization. She shows a frightening portrayal of our present society, in which governmental politics is be ...

Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende (2012)

Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that had called itself "the better Germany" for 40 years. Nazi victim and autocrat, bourgeois and power-conscious: Honecker was an ideological hardliner who coor ...

Die Akte Gysi (2011)

Behind The Wall (2011)

Behind The Wall documents what life was like on both sides of The Berlin Wall through the eyes of ordinary citizens from East and West Germany. They give an in-depth and overlooked perspective of life before, during and after The Wall fell. Beginning with ...

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial (2009)

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to the completed memorial is also shown. ...

Gysi und ich (2007)

Neue Wut (2005)

Monday demonstrations against Hartz IV, labor disputes, highway blockades against tuition fees. It is primarily anger that drives people onto the streets: anger at the shameless enrichment of "those at the top" and ever-increasing cutbacks "at the bottom." ...

Im Rausch der Macht (2005)

Honecker - Eine Abrechnung (1992)