Peter Gotthardt Movies

It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During...

Based on a story by Anna Seghers.

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...

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the...

Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Archangelskoje near Moskow to open the new...

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

A portrait of East Berlin

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...

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

Portrait of Interflug airline captain Günter Schneider.

Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by...

A nasty witch has stolen the Princess’ beautiful face. When the three little bunnies try to help the Princess, they also get bewitched and...

A portrait of Helga Hörz, professor of ethics and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

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

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...