More than 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, the re-release of the East German film ‘Coming Out’ reminds us that protecting minority populations’ rights is every society’s responsibility.

Progress Film, the historic distributor established in 1950 to handle the release of films produced by communist East Germany’s state-owned film studio, has announced plans to relaunch ...

The Berlin film festival’s series of special feature films commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago, “Goodbye to Winter: Cinematic portents of the collapse of Stalinism ...

Real-life Stasi film shows East German oppression. By Reuters. September 2, 2008 4:38 PM UTC Updated September 2, 2008. By Erik Kirschbaum. BERLIN (Reuters) - Two years after the ...

Andreas Dresen's 'Gundermann,' a biopic about East German singer-songwriter Gerhard Gundermann, leads the pack for this year's German Film Awards, picking up 10 nominations, including mentions for ...

German cinema looks set for a major boom this year with a strong lineup of diverse works that span historical dramas, coming-of-age tales, high-octane nostalgia, animation and sci-fi fun.

Hasso Herschel fled East Germany in 1961 on a false passport. Over the next decade, he helped more than 1,000 East Germans flee by smuggling them through tunnels or by hiding them inside cars.