Wenn man eine Liebe hat(1987)

Wenn man eine Liebe hat is a documentary set in 1986 East Germany, where the WMW "Fritz Heckert" factory in Karl-Marx-Stadt produced 60% of the nation's machine tools. The film follows workers at this industrial hub, focusing on a youth brigade led by Detlef Kalweit. Through their stories, the documentary captures life inside one of the GDR's most vital manufacturing plants during the final years of the socialist state. It offers an intimate portrait of factory workers, their ambitions, and their daily routines in a system defined by state-controlled production and collective ideology.