Summary: East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. She must weigh her absolute dedication to her patients against a potential escape to the West, and her newfound attraction to a doctor in whom she sees a kindred spirit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Schramm Film Koerner & Weber 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: In the summer of 1979, two East German families attempt the impossible. In a makeshift hot-air balloon, they risk their lives and fly towards West Germany with hopes of freedom and a better life. Unfortunately, the balloon crash-lands just before they reach the West German border and the Stasi soon discover evidence of the attempted escape. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BALSummary: It is a sweeping family saga of conflicting loyalties, betrayal, love and hope, set in 1980s East Berlin. Uwe Kockisch Hans Kupfer, is a Stasi officer whose youngest son, Martin, falls in love with the daughter of a dissident singer. Their love affair sets events into motion which affect both families over a turbulent decade. The Kupfers and the Hausmanns could hardly be more different.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WEISummary: Set in the 1960's German Democratic Republic, a love triangle ensues when the new Party secretary and a beautiful engineer travel to a large construction site where a swaggering foreman rules, closely supported by his co-workers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRASummary: Following a near-death experience, a young woman flees her East German hometown and failed marriage to start over in Hanover. By chance she finds work with an ambitious and determined executive and enters a ruthless world of big business and cut-throat boardroom deals. But just as she seems poised to fully realize her ambitions, she finds herself haunted by truths from the past that threaten to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YELSummary: This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEGSummary: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEVHurt, John
Summary: Based on the true story of two East German families who built a hot air balloon to escape from Communist East Germany.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2004