Mdr Movies

The market regulates everything! Diligence and work create prosperity! Capitalism needs growth! What is the truth behind the great principles of capit...

In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up...

Year 1763, the Seven Years' War is about to end. August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, has died, leaving empty the royal treasury and an e...

The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17, and the consequences for him and his family, but also the liberation...

Renowned documentarian Thomas Heise begins a film on Berlin's Schönhauser Allee, the road he lived on for decades. A few months later, Heise dies unex...

A young man works for a chauffeur company and is given the job of driving the favorite daughter of a Qatari prince who is to undergo an operation in G...

With tailor-made costumes, sophisticated choreography and consummate perfection, the German Television Ballet made screen history. Since 1962, the 26...

Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful German directors. The documentary accompanies him through the year 2023 until the opening evening at the...

Hardly any other world star has left such a profound mark on people's hearts and on music history. This documentary traces the influence of an excepti...

November 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came down. A 10-year-old girl and her friends attempt to use their teleportation device to beam her uncle ba...

Cats are the most popular pets in Europe, with twelve million living in Germany alone. And yet: hardly anyone knows how they live and what they do as...

Micha does the same. He falls in love with Claudia, whom he hardly knew until then, and he falls in love with the role of being a father. Friends and...

The film explores the only known case in the history of post-WWII era of concentration camp survivors helping the SS Commandant of the Auschwitz and R...

The film documents the life and political career of Angela Merkel. It shows archive images and interviews with contemporaries, including Franz Müntefe...

In November 2023, right-wing thought leaders, politicians from the AfD, CDU and Werteunion, as well as numerous entrepreneurs, met behind closed doors...

While life in a provincial town in eastern Germany near the Polish border has virtually come to a standstill, a dynamic young entrepreneur, his wife,...

The third part of Thomas Heise's time-lapse observation, in which he accompanies the people of Saxony-Anhalt. At the centre of the film is Jeanette, w...

Due to alleged West contacts Bettina is arrested in 1984. Jan is a Stasi officer and expert in interrogation. For half a year, the officer and the dis...

Uncleared roads, frozen pipes, district heating breakdowns: winter regularly posed problems for the GDR leadership. From the mid-1960s, the GDR leader...