Peter Sodann

Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about “jokes” under the Soviet Union.

The elaborately staged and lovingly furnished melodrama tells the moving story of a wife and mother after the Second World War. In the title role ...

For the career of her husband, Irina has renounced her journalistic career and has become a housewife. After countless job-related processions, ...

On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GDR refused obedience to their political ...

The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her father, a high-ranking officer in the ...

Fall 1989: Jan is almost 16. Caught while trying to escape to West Germany, he is transferred from prison to a juvenile detention center. Here, ...

A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of ...

He could have had women, he could have climbed the ladder of his accountancy career, and he could have stood on the podium next to the highest in ...

Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 ...

18-year old Georg and 13-year old Barbara have been playing together as children. Play becomes love later, which leads to a catastrophe , as ...

A young woman named Karin Schröder studied biophysics in Moscow and has now returned to the GDR with her diploma. She is thirsty for action, ...

Frank and Kamminke study informatics in Leipzig and have developed a program that enables a computer to automatically find and correct errors in ...

The story of Vera Lenz, a young and very attractive woman who is the daughter of a pastor and comes from a small coastal village on the North Sea ...

Henriette is a princess; she is playing with her ball, but drops it into a well. A talking frog replaces it with a golden ball, on condition that ...

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the paths of three people on the run cross by chance in the small Baltic Sea port of Rerig: Gregor, ...

Berlin in the 1930s – Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are ...

Twenty-year-old electronics technician Liane, desperate to escape her broken home, resists a demotion at work and falls for research student ...

1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted ...

Young construction worker Ralf Reider leaves his home village Katzsprung in the Rhön mountains during the “Berlin Initiative”. In the ...

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody ...

Romantic comedy about a series of mix-ups. Brigitte Kaufmann wants to divorce her husband Jörg who is an engineer and chief executive of an ...

The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she ...

Twelve-year-old Joochen lives in a village on the Elbe. He finds a shot beaver and takes it to school with him. The animals are a protected ...

After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. He is a widower with two sons, ...