Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

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

A biographical documentary about the Bulgarian born film director Slatan Dudow (1903–1963).

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

A film about German mercenary soldiers.

Voigt, Kroske and Richter were among the first filmmakers who documented the events of the historic 9th of October 1989. Their “material”...

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

Three kids from a small village in Mecklenburg decide to sneak away to East-Berlin in order to gift Angela Davis a lucky pig.

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

People discuss their ideas of the future. In this 2nd episode of the film series, the problem of "beauty" in our current and future ideas is...

Documentary film

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

The film is an appeal by the International Democratic Women's Federation against a new war, calling on all mothers of the world to protect their...

Images of the romantic city and tourist leaflets are burning – the vision of possible destruction.

Black and white short documentary about the patrol of the EMW radio car "Toni 14" of the Berlin police.

Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the surroundings of the textile factory. Older gentlemen in a pub reveal that two factories produced...

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).

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

The film reports on the massive forest damage in the Ore Mountains on the Czech-German border and the desperate struggle of foresters and residents...