Jaecki Schwarz Movies

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

Ralf Paeschke is a film student who has to make a documentary film about a group of women working in a lamp factory. There is brazen Susie,...

Karl Erp is a middle-aged man with two children and a boring marriage. After starting an exciting affair with his intern, Miss Broder, he leaves his...

After 20 years, carpenter Johannes Keinath returns to his hometown on Lake Constance. When he fights off two crooks during a robbery, he believes he...

Mechanic Hannes Blaschke and his wife Maxi, who works as a bus driver, have just become happy parents of twins. Now they have a serious...

During their holiday in Kraków, a young worker and a student are asked if their love, despite different views on life, will endure.

In 1920 Moscow, a wounded Red Guard paints “Blue Horses on Red Grass” to symbolize hope he’ll never see. He presents it to a...

In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film history of the GDR. In a comprehensive...

For Ursula Gothe, the wife of the up-and-coming engineer Dr. Richard Gothe, life in the post-war period is finally back on track. That changes when...

In three episodes about six people, the film takes on the topics of relationships, difficult social engagements , and love in the German Democratic...

Hans the farmer is drawn into war as a soldier. Returning from the front, having been defrauded of his pay by his own king, he makes his way home. On...

Nice gift: Shortly before Christmas loses parcel delivery Wolfgang Paschke the debit card, the driver's license and his job. Famously, he also...

After a wolf had killed a sheep in their village, 12-year old Roland and his friend Hugo keep track of the predator. Roland wants to build a trap to...

Ten years old Ernst and his father Alfons are traveling to the family event on their bikes.

Four small-time crooks occasionally enlist the help of their girlfriends to earn a living by robbing cars. It is only when a former television...