Gisela May Movies

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against our...

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in Brandenburg, to W...

13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman. Th...

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television...