Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

  • 1991
    Bulky Trash

    Bulky Trash

    Bulky Trash

    01991HD

    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...

    Bulky Trash
  • 1985
    Tango Dream

    Tango Dream

    Tango Dream

    4.71985HD

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

    Tango Dream
  • 1988
    Marx Family

    Marx Family

    Marx Family

    01988HD

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

    Marx Family
  • 1985
    Die Zeit die bleibt

    Die Zeit die bleibt

    Die Zeit die bleibt

    01985HD

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

    Die Zeit die bleibt
  • 1984
    Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze

    Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze

    Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze

    81984HD

    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...

    Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze
  • 1984
    What We Remember

    What We Remember

    What We Remember

    01984HD

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

    What We Remember
  • 1988
    whisper & SHOUT

    whisper & SHOUT

    whisper & SHOUT

    71988HD

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

    whisper & SHOUT
  • 1991
    Time Loops - A Conversation with Christa Wolf

    Time Loops - A Conversation with Christa Wolf

    Time Loops - A Conversation with Christa Wolf

    81991HD

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

    Time Loops - A Conversation with Christa Wolf
  • 1967
    Love-Letters 66

    Love-Letters 66

    Love-Letters 66

    01967HD

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

    Love-Letters 66
  • 1954
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    01954HD

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

    Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 1989
    After Winter Comes Spring

    After Winter Comes Spring

    After Winter Comes Spring

    7.61989HD

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

    After Winter Comes Spring
  • 1972
    Einberufen

    Einberufen

    Einberufen

    01972HD

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

    Einberufen
  • 1946
    Unity SPD – KPD

    Unity SPD – KPD

    Unity SPD – KPD

    51946HD

    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...

    Unity SPD – KPD
  • 1979
    Martha

    Martha

    Martha

    01979HD

    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 -...

    Martha
  • 1953
    Das Stacheltier – Eine Liebesgeschichte

    Das Stacheltier – Eine Liebesgeschichte

    Das Stacheltier – Eine Liebesgeschichte

    01953HD

    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 Stacheltier – Eine Liebesgeschichte
  • 1963
    The Russian Miracle

    The Russian Miracle

    The Russian Miracle

    81963HD

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

    The Russian Miracle
  • 1987
    Der springende Punkt

    Der springende Punkt

    Der springende Punkt

    01987HD

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

    Der springende Punkt
  • 1989
    Aschermittwoch

    Aschermittwoch

    Aschermittwoch

    01989HD

    Sketches from a store cashier's everyday life.

    Aschermittwoch
  • 1951
    Helgoland dem Frieden

    Helgoland dem Frieden

    Helgoland dem Frieden

    01951HD

    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...

    Helgoland dem Frieden
  • 1985
    Tango

    Tango

    Tango

    01985HD

    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,...

    Tango