Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

Documentary short.

A documentary about young people just starting their higher education and their professional life.

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

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

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

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to G...

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegf...

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and pr...

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 call th...

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

Vacation in Sylt is a black and white compilation film about Heinz Reinefarth, a Nazi Party member, high SS police leader of Warthe, and later mayor (...

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can t...

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

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

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

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.