Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin in 1950.

Volker Koepp's second Wittstock film.

A documentary about the planning and construction of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin.

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

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East Germany...

Documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp visits a brick factory in Zehdenick, East Germany.

Documentary film

Portrait of Hans Globke, jurist at the ministry of interior during the Third Reich and co-author of an official commentary to the Nuremberg Laws of 19...

A young couple, whose first child was born with a disability, ask in front of the camera about ways to rule out a disability for the next pregnancy: w...

The “Raging Reporter” Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) was one of the most significant journalists of the 1920s and 30s. He wrote from a communist point o...

Documentary film

Nine peasant woodcarvers from Poland, their works, their thoughts, and the unexpected elements in each personal view. They draw their themes from bibl...

Summertime in Prerow at the Baltic Sea. A cheerful film with the spirit of the sixties.

The central song and dance ensemble of the Soviet military stationed in East Germany goes on a tour of the country. The dancers and musicians talk abo...

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic works...

A short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media.

Böttchers film showcases three young workers who learn how to paint, draw, and make sculptures out of stone. The film generated a storm of mistrust, a...

Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German e...