Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

How the class community is formed. The children's environment and the experiences and discoveries that the school gives them. They are reflected in th...

This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the "stars" of a Berlin light bulb factory. What is striking is the cord...

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 - sor...

Summer holidays of young pioneers and the report of the pioneer meeting in Dresden in August 1952.

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists—includ...

Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.

The film’s title is taken from a song, used here as a leitmotif, written by Günter Jordan and the East German rock group Pankow. This sensitive report...

Short film about electric railroad lines

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...

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

Kurt Wans(z)ki has spent his life in psychatric clinics. He is diagnosed as: retarded to the level of early childhood, incapable of learning. Free fro...

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run t...

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

A cinema-verité documentary of Ghana’s five years of independence under President Kwame Nkruma. Striking color images of Africans in modern-day jobs,...

Citations from love letters and poems written between Karl Marx and his fiancée Jenny von Westphalen during their teenage years are combined with imag...

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names -...