Peter Gotthardt Movies

Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to...

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the...

Based on a story by Anna Seghers.

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration. They visit Weimar, the...

Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of...

Portrait of Interflug airline captain Günter Schneider.

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has...

A portrait of East Berlin

Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by...

Documentary short about artist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938).

This documentary about the Buchenwald concentration camp features interviews with survivors who describe their memories and experiences. The...

Florian is the son an army general and very proud of him. When his father has to attend the annual 1st of May demonstration, Florian grabs his teddy...

A portrait of Helga Hörz, professor of ethics and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.