Dokumentarfilm über den Steinmetz Michael Spengler, der Grabsteine erstellt und dabei eine besondere Vorgehensweise hat: Er versucht, in seinen Steinen die Persönlichkeit des Verstorbenen authentisc...
Berlin, Anfang der 1980er Jahre: Der Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR wirbt den jungen, systemtreuen Ostberliner Ludger an, um ihn in die Künstlerszene des Prenzlauer Berg einzuschleusen. Dort sammelt...
Vor Jahren hatte die 22-jährige Studentin Lena ihr Elternhaus im Streit verlassen und den Kontakt zu ihrer Mutter abgebrochen. Nun erhält sie von ihrem Vater überraschend die Nachricht von deren Un...
Lose Fortsetzung des Sozialdramas "Mediterranea" (DE/US/IT/FR) aus dem Jahr 2015. Im Mittelpunkt steht der 14-jährige Roma Pio, der mit seiner großen Familiengemeinschaft in einer italienischen Stad...
Catholic and folk parade, probably in Reims.
A film about the first post-war October in Prague is also an experimental work in colour documentary. in addition to the colors of the autumn trees, it also plays with the colors of the neon lights an...
Using non-fictional shots and animated maps, the film presents the planned project of the Elbe-Oder-Danube Canal, which should open the way for Czechoslovakia to the world's seas and connect it with t...
Film představuje technickou podstatu a historický vývoj staroměstského orloje na budově Staroměstské radnice v Praze. Jelikož se radnice stala jednou z mála pražských budov poničených v ...
Prague celebrates the fifth anniversary of its liberation by the Red Army in the presence of Klement Gottwald, the President of Czechoslovakia, and the Russian Marshal Boulganine.
The French Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning visited the construction sites of Nantes and Saint Nazaire.
From 1943, Marseille is occupied by the Germans who destroy some neighborhoods and build fortifications. After the landings in June and August 1944, the Germans undermine the port and begin to destroy...
War damage in Cologne. The camera pans across ruins but also piles of rubble and largely cleared areas. The whole area appears deserted, inhabited only by a few women and children.
A film depicts a national aid campaign supporting a development of Slovakia as a rural and more traditionally oriented part of Czechoslovakia. It puts into contrast an industrial Czech land and a folk...
A documentary film comparing current / everyday and historical / noble aspects of Prague.
Around the Blaubach and the Waidmarkt, the war damage is still clearly visible in Cologne's Südstadt. Houses lie in ruins while people try to go about their regular lives in the post-war period. View...
The city of Dresden was bombed by the Allies during the night of the 13th to the 14th of February 1945. Canadian army captures Kleve on February 26th.
To manage the increase in the number of school children and students, classrooms in prefabricated materials have been installed in schools and colleges which have become too cramped.
Based on ancient medicine's belief that a good life depends on good health, the film attempts to take stock of the state of health in post-war Europe and the successes that have been achieved in disea...
Displaced children in post-war Europe are eventually brought to Palestine. (Source: Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive)
Not only in contrast to an untroubled childhood in America but even in co...
Reconstruction activities in Heilbronn with focus on streets and squares (Part 1): Detailed footage from the years 1946-1953; in the early footage, mainly ruins and fallow land, then increasingly rede...