Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

A documentary about German director Konrad Wolf (1925–1982).

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her...

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics,...

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt - as she has for decades -...

The writer Franz Schmidt reads to two editors from his new romance novel. The two criticize the lack of a problematic portrayal of the joyful life of...

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

Sketches from a store cashier's everyday life.

Under the sign of the swastika, it was, amongst other things, turned into a naval base, it got heavily destroyed in two waves of attack in April of...

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...