Movies

SS officer Walter Krüger talks about his career. Now he is Secretary of the „Kameradschaftsverband I. Panzerkorps der ehemaligen Waffen-SS...

Urlaub auf Sylt (Vacation in Sylt) (1957) is an East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The film investigates the past of...

A farmer owns a pear tree, three daughters and a chicken. Every year he has to deliver three baskets of pears to the king. Once, when he is unable to...

Report on a trip of Vietnamese guests to the GDR to attend the premiere of the documentary film „The Iron Fortress“ about the history of...

East Berlin disco movie.

East German documentary about the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Around 1,500 people from more than forty countries met in Dresden for the 1984 congress of UNIMA, the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Founded...

Four generations of one familiy live in the heart of the Spreewald, close to the coalmines and power stations. From their elders, the children have...

A raven wishes to be an eagle and he imitates the proud bird. But when the eagle is punished because he killed a sheep, the raven has second thoughts.

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

The goal of the American operation "Phoenix" in Vietnam was to destroy all the bases of the liberation struggle. K. Barton Osborn, a former "Phoenix"...

Two men sit on an island watching the sunset. When a storm gathers, they decide to build a boat. While one man is mindful of the coming danger and...

The fisherman's son Christian, called Spinner, has a lively imagination. When he is sailing with his pirate sailboat, he feels like the sailor...

Report on the conflicts around the People's Republic of Kampuchea

One day the meadow king notices that the grass has grown so high that he can no longer see over it. He investigates and finds out that the sheep have...

Animated fairy tale about the mountain ghost Rübezahl and his dealing with a thieving shoemaker.

Although mocked by his collegaues, the dean of Salamanca sets off to find the legendary bird Turlipan.

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in...