Jaecki Schwarz Movies

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful...

Nora Bernd is a popular "lifestyle consultant" on television: in her programme she gets people to talk about their problems, helps them find a way to...

Gottfried and Markus are friends who have done everything together so far: School, vocational training with A-levels, time in the army. Markus'...

In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the...

When Angelika moves to Leipzig, she is forced to rent a room at Mrs. Häublein’s for a start, since her parents will not follow until a few...

Joe Müller, a single father, is electrified: in front of him stands an outraged woman who insults him badly. Still, he falls in love. As it...

A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain...

Moscow in the 1920s. A film about the pogroms in southern Russia is being made in a studio. The name of the notorious tsarist governor Muratov, also...

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

Old Otto Gratzick is a porter at DEFA and a great admirer of Asta Nielsen. When the famous actor Hermann Gschwindner dies shortly before the end of...

The children’s film is based on Wenjamin Kawerin’s short story "Leichte Schritte". It centers on the ten-year-old Peter who is in love...

The thirteen year old Janni is depressed, because she's still a little behind in her physical development. This leads to bullying remarks from her...

Little Matti and his friends are restoring the old abandoned fire truck .

Günther and Erwin are best friends and love enemies at the same time: the two shrewd older men have been at loggerheads for 30 years now - over...

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....