This is a list, in year order, of the most notable films produced in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany and the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) from 1945 until German Reunification in October 1990.
The state owned East German film company DEFA produced about 800 feature films between 1946 and 1992. Besides DEFA, the state broadcaster DFF and the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst (now the Filmuniversität Babelsberg)Filmuniversität Babelsberg website (in English) were the only other organizations in the GDR that produced feature films for cinematic release, although far fewer than DEFA. DEFA also produced about 750 animated movies and more than 2500 documentaries and short films.
DEFA feature films are accessible and licensable as part of DEFA's entire film heritage on the PROGRESS archive platform.
For an alphabetical list of articles on East German films see :Category:East German films.
1945–1949 (the Soviet Sector of Germany) Note that the German Democratic Republic formally came into existence in October 1949.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1946 Allez Hopp Hans Fritz Köllner Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Babsi Schultz-Reckewell Drama Berlin im Aufbau Kurt Maetzig Documentary, short Dresden Richard Groschopp Documentary, short Einheit SPD-KPD Kurt Maetzig Documentary, short Die Fledermaus Géza von Bolváry Marte Harell, Johannes Heesters Operetta Based on Johann Strauss II's operetta Die Fledermaus; filmed in 1944 Freies LandMilo HarbichUrsula Voß, Herbert WilkDrama Irgendwo in Berlin Gerhard Lamprecht Mady Rahl, Rotraut Richter Drama Die Mörder sind unter uns Wolfgang Staudte Wilhelm Borchert, Hildegard Knef Drama, Trümmerfilm Peter Voss, der MillionendiebKarl AntonViktor de Kowa, Else von MöllendorffComedy, crimeFilmed between 1943 and 1945 Potsdam baut auf Joop Huisken Documentary, short 1947 Ehe im Schatten Kurt Maetzig Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat Melodrama Based on the life of German actor Joachim Gottschalk Kein Platz für Liebe Hans Deppe Bruni Löbel, Heinz Lausch Comedy Razzia Werner Klingler Paul Bildt, Agathe Poschmann Crime Wozzeck Georg C. Klaren Kurt Meisel, Helga Zülch Drama 1948 1-2-3 Corona Hans Müller Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Lutz Moik Crime, drama Affaire Blum Erich Engel Hans Christian Blech, Ernst Waldow Drama Based on a 1926 murder trial of a German-Jewish industrialist in Magdeburg Chemie und Liebe Arthur Maria Rabenalt Hans Nielsen, Tilly Lauenstein Comedy Grube Morgenrot Erich Freund, Wolfgang Schleif Claus Holm, Maria Rouvel Drama Das kleine Hofkonzert Paul Verhoeven Elfie Mayerhofer, Hans Nielsen Musical Filmed in 1944 Die seltsamen Abenteuer des Herrn Fridolin B. Wolfgang Staudte Axel von Ambesser, Ilse Petri Comedy Straßenbekanntschaft Peter Pewas Gisela Trowe, Alice Treff Drama Und wieder 48 Gustav von Wangenheim Inge von Wangenheim, Wilhelm Borchert Drama 1949 Der Biberpelz Erich Engel Fita Benkhoff, Werner Hinz Comedy Based on Gerhart Hauptmann's play The Beaver Coat The Blue Swords Wolfgang Schleif Hans Quest, Ilse Steppat Biography, drama Fictionalized biography of Johann Friedrich Böttger Die Brücke Arthur Pohl Karl Hellmer, Fritz Wagner Drama Die Buntkarierten Kurt Maetzig Camilla Spira, Werner Hinz Drama Figaros Hochzeit Georg Wildhagen Angelika Hauff, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender Musical Based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro Das Mädchen Christine Arthur Maria Rabenalt Wolfgang Lukschy, Petra Peters Drama Quartet of Five Gerhard Lamprecht Claus Holm, Yvonne Merin Comedy, romance Rotation Wolfgang Staudte Paul Esser, Irene Korb Drama Won a Golden Leopard at the 1954 Locarno Film Festival Träum' nicht, Annette Eberhard Klagemann, Helmut Weiss Jenny Jugo, Max Eckard Comedy Unser täglich Brot Slatan Dudow Viktoria von Ballasko, Paul Bildt Drama
1950s