Top 20 movies like DDR - die entsorgte Republik

(DDR - die entsorgte Republik)

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Genres: Documentary

Top 20 Movies like DDR - die entsorgte Republik

1. The Red Elvis (Der rote Elvis)

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.

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2. Tunnel to Freedom (Tunnel der Freiheit)

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But on September 14, 1962, exactly one year, one month and one day after the Wall was built, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape spectacularly through a 135-meter tunnel to the West. For more than 4 months, students from West Berlin, including 2 Italians, dug this tunnel. When the tunnel builders ran out of money after only a few meters of digging, they came up with the idea of marketing the escape tunnel. They sell the film rights to the story exclusively to NBC, an American television station.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

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3. Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution (Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution)

(Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution)

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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4. Die kalten Ringe (Die kalten Ringe)

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo. In the midst of the cold war, the games are supposed to become a symbol for a peaceful world. Especially the divided Germany is expected to prove this: By order of the IOC, both German states must participate in Tokyo with a joint team despite deep ideological rifts. The fact that athletes from both German states still had to compete against each other in order to form a joint team for the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck and in Tokyo is all but forgotten. The film tells the story of the East-West German team of 1964 for the first time and is simultaneously a current document about the relation of sports and politics in international relations.

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5. Spielball der Weltpolitik – Als Elten niederländisch wurde (Spielball der Weltpolitik – Als Elten niederländisch wurde)

It is an unknown chapter of the German post-war history: On April 23rd, 1949, the kingdom of the Netherlands occupied German soil as a pledge for demanded war reparations. Part of the annexed territories was also the small municipality of Elten. While the people of Elten were initially afraid of the occupation, the time “with Holland” actually became a miracle of prosperity and economy about which many people from Elten still rave today. The occupation period ended with the largest organized smuggling in the history of the federal republic of Germany. The Documentary shows this in never before released 8 mm footage!

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

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6. I Am My Own Woman (Ich bin meine eigene Frau)

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years.

It has an average vote of 4.3 on TMDB.

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7. Die Ära Merkel - Gesichter einer Kanzlerin (Die Ära Merkel - Gesichter einer Kanzlerin)

(Die Ära Merkel - Gesichter einer Kanzlerin)

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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8. Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann (Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann)

(Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann)

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9. Drei Frauen (Drei Frauen)

(Drei Frauen)

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

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10. Merkel (Merkel – Macht der Freiheit)

Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider – a woman, a scientist, and an East German – became the de facto leader of the “Free World”, told for the first time for an international audience.

It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.

11. A Hero's Death (Heldentod - Der Tunnel und die Lüge)

It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel into West Berlin. Just before the last few reach the other side, the East German border guards notice the escape and open fire. Remarkably, all the refugees and their escape agents make it out of the tunnel unscathed, but one border guard is dead: 21-year-old officer Egon Schultz.

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12. Heimatkunde (Heimatkunde)

Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and discovers the East-German mentality and what is left of the socialist German Democratic Republic.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

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13. DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953 (DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953)

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic has repeatedly struggled with domestic political problems. While the standard of living of the population in the western part of Germany steadily increased, it stagnated in the GDR . A one-sided, industry-oriented reconstruction policy, coupled with rapid militarization, weighed on the country's economy, which was already under pressure from Soviet reparations demands. A majority of the population did not identify with the socialist system, which accordingly stood on shaky ground.

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14. Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen (Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen)

Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the club to its first German championship, was persecuted and forced out of office by the Nazis, and rebuilt the club after the war.

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15. Die Sekretäre (Die Sekretäre)

The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together, Ulbricht and Honecker determined the course of the GDR, of course without ever getting out of being a satellite state to the big brother in Moscow. The film looks for the caesura and crucial points in the power game between Ulbricht and Honecker.

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16. Bernau liegt am Meer (Bernau liegt am Meer)

Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin.This film tells this 21-year-old’s story and describes the radical right-wing milieu in which he grew up. In his candid portrait of how right-wing radicalism breeds, Daniel explains how difficult it is to break out of a vicious circle of violence, self-hatred and a right-wing extremist frame of mind.

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17. Change of Scenery

Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before her, lived through the separation of East and West Germany. Tapetenwechsel is the story of youth seeking their identity when confronting their collective memory.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

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18. From Us to Me (Vom Wir zum Ich)

In October 1987, the documentary film collective Amber Films from Newcastle became the first British film crew ever allowed to shoot in East Germany. They filmed the workers of the state-owned fishing concern in Warnemünde and a brigade of crane operators at the state Warnow dockyards. Just two years later, East Germany was history, including most of the jobs it once provided. Twenty-five years later, in 2014, the filmmakers returned to an utterly different Rostock. They visited the people they had filmed in 1987. Together, documentarians and subjects look at excerpts from the earlier film, and talk about the enormous changes the men and women experienced, how they dealt with them, and how they feel today.

It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.

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19. East-West Passage (Kelet-nyugati átjáró)

In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. They were deeply disillusioned because they felt they had no future in East Germany. There was no freedom, no choice in the shops, salaries were low and they could not travel except to Eastern Europe. They wanted to go to a prosperous and free West Germany but they could not get passports, so they hoped that by travelling through Hungary, the least suppressed country of the Soviet Block, they could cross the Iron Curtain into Austria and then travel on into West Germany. For them the Hungary of twenty years ago was the new east-west passage. Written by Czes

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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