Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies
- 1991
Bulky Trash
Bulky Trash01991HD
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...
- 1985
Tango Dream
Tango Dream4.71985HD
Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...
- 1988
Marx Family
Marx Family01988HD
A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.
- 1985
Die Zeit die bleibt
Die Zeit die bleibt01985HD
A documentary about German director Konrad Wolf (1925–1982).
- 1984
Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze
Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze81984HD
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...
- 1984
What We Remember
What We Remember01984HD
Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...
- 1988
whisper & SHOUT
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Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...
- 1991
Time Loops - A Conversation with Christa Wolf
Time Loops - A Conversation with Christa Wolf81991HD
Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics,...
- 1967
Love-Letters 66
Love-Letters 6601967HD
Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.
- 1954
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven01954HD
Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.
- 1989
After Winter Comes Spring
After Winter Comes Spring7.61989HD
A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...
- 1972
Einberufen
Einberufen01972HD
Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.
- 1946
Unity SPD – KPD
Unity SPD – KPD51946HD
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...
- 1979
Martha
Martha01979HD
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 -...
- 1953
Das Stacheltier – Eine Liebesgeschichte
Das Stacheltier – Eine Liebesgeschichte01953HD
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...
- 1963
The Russian Miracle
The Russian Miracle81963HD
Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...
- 1987
Der springende Punkt
Der springende Punkt01987HD
Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...
- 1989
Aschermittwoch
Aschermittwoch01989HD
Sketches from a store cashier's everyday life.
- 1951
Helgoland dem Frieden
Helgoland dem Frieden01951HD
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...
- 1985
Tango
Tango01985HD
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,...