Der Film erzählt, inspiriert von den Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht, eine Vielzahl alltäglicher Situationen, die immer wieder mit historischen Ereignissen verwoben werden. Da bindet ein Vater seiner Toc...
Am 21. April 2013 präsentierte die Regisseurin Caroline Link ihre Oscar®-prämierte Verfilmung des Afrika-Epos "Nirgendwo in Afrika" (DE 2001) und sprach mit Urs Spoerri vom Deutschen Filmmuseum.
Der rote Barsch Shorty, seine Schwester Indigo und sein bester Freund, der Sägefisch Jake, leben gemeinsam in einem idyllischen Korallenriff. Bis eines Tages ein Schleppnetz das gesamte Korallenriff ...
Tonbild zu "Die Herzen der Frau'n von Berlin" aus der 1907 Metropol-Theater Revue "Das muss man seh'n!". Der Hauptdarsteller, vermutlich Emil Justitz, agiert playback zu einem Lied, das die Vorzüge d...
Max ist in seinem Beruf als Psychotherapeut zwar sehr erfolgreich, aber seine eigenen Probleme drohen ihm immer mehr über den Kopf zu wachsen. Seine Ex-Frau Loretta, mit der er sich eigentlich prima ...
Die wirtschaftliche Situation in dem bayerischen Provinzkaff Hinterdupfing ist wenig berauschend. Eines Tages kommt eine Clique Dorfjugendlicher auf die Idee, den Ort als Urlaubsziel zu etablieren. Si...
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
Millions of Europeans, refugees and deportees, return to their homeland. The film shows the Americans' organized transfer of displaced persons, as well as the arrival in the Soviet zone of hundreds of...
A documentary film drawing attention to the dangers of pickpockets in public places - at a fair, in a cinema and on a tram. It uses reenactment, but pretends to be a hidden camera that observes what i...
The black-and-white film by Ernst Hirsch from 1959 was a commissioned production for the GDR's Deutsche Fernsehfunk. It shows the path that the art treasures, e.g. of the Green Vault and the Picture G...
The black-and-white film "Putti" is a collaborative work of the so-called amateur film studio of the Kulturbund Dresden from 1952, in which Ernst Hirsch acted as cameraman and the later DEFA director ...
Car ride, woman collecting berries on the roadside, debris in Halle (Saale), streetcar, Leipzig tower, market church. Viaduct in Gräfenthal (Thuringia). Woman playing with goats.
A "School for Officers" is established at the historic "Ecole Militaire" in Paris. Staff officers and senior officials from all 14 NATO countries are trained with the aim of forming an effective defen...
The documentary black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch shows Sorbian Easter riders on their procession from Bautzen to Radwor/Radibor in April 1954. The film also shows securing work on the roof of t...
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...