Socialism Movies

An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her...

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological...

A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most...

A group of children fleeing from a cruel stone age society with violence, exploitation and sexual abuse.

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...

In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do...

Angi Vera, as a promising young woman, gets invited to a Communist training center to undergo the next level of indoctrination into Party life. She...

Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 from the perspective of various...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A young generation was taking the reins in a country...

A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially...

A deep drama about life in Hungary after the WW2 until the revolt against Russians in '56. The main character is the head of the black market in...

In 1987 GDR citizen Mario Röllig was arrested in Hungary for attempting to flee the GDR. Nowadays he gives talks about his experiences. This...

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary...

An interview with the president of Chile conducted by Roberto Rossellini in 1971, but broadcast only after his death.

In the run-up to parliamentary elections in mid-October, Polish filmmaker Marcin Wierzchowski travelled across his country to gauge the atmosphere in...

Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.