Thomas Plenert Movies

Documentary filmmaker Paul Krewer follows his friend Thomas Ritter in the Peace Race, aiming to capture a winner’s story. When Ritter crashes...

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...

Six directors, one film: in episodes, they recall their experiences at the end of the GDR and the fate of a family under National Socialism. They...

Documentary film about a group of cyclists who organized themselves in 1978 in the “BSG Turbine Potsdam.”

Mansfelder Land—tailings piles and mine shafts dominate the landscape, bearing witness to the mining industry. Mansfeld copper shale—one...

Experienced shunters working at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt goods yard. In all weathers, day and night, they couple and uncouple the wagons. The air...

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, with...

This documentary chronicles the 36th edition of the "Peace Race" cycling race; it consisted of 12 individual stages and covered a total distance of...

Young people living in a children’s home in Mecklenburg talk about their unstable home situations and domestic violence. Many of them have...

A documentary about Masuria, a province in the northeast of Poland, which is probably the most renowned part of former East-Prussia. Albeit a recent...

The interviews conducted by Tamara Trampe in a Pankow kindergarten testify to a rare attempt to enter the world of the young interviewees completely,...

A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Potter's Bull is the first part of the "Over-Paintings" Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Paulus...

The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim to power and its aesthetic effect. The basis for...

Documentary film by Helke Misselwitz.

In his film "Berlin-Stettin", well-known documentary film director Volker Koepp embarks on a journey to the places of his own past: Born in 1944 in...

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

The film tells the story of the East Prussian landscape and its inhabitants. At one time Germans, Poles, Lithuanians and Jews lived here alongside...

Long before the Wall came down, there was a seedy neighborhood near Ostbahnhof that had survived the war. At Ossi’s bar, we’re...