Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

The first Hirde Dyama National Festival of Culture of the Republic of Guinea was held in March 1970 in the country's capital city of Conakry. The...

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

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

Documentary film.

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

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

Eberhard Kunstmann, a shipbuilder at the Neptune Wharf in Rostock, counsels collegues who are struggling with alchohol addiction.

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

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

Together with Stephan Hermlin, H&S examine two five-minute film documents in this film, which were shot in 1941 on behalf of the Gestapo. The...

Unternehmen Teutonenschwert (Operation Teutonic Sword) (1958) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike. The film...

This documentary, intended to inspire new home filmmakers, tells the stories of ordinary people who learned how to make their own films by renting...

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...

The epilogue to the film "The Laughing Man" (1966), which alternates between objectivity and anger, exposes the involvement of the West German...

A portrait of three friends from the GDR. Dieter, a painter, spent ten years in prison on account of his "aversion to work". Alfred, promoted to the...

Questions about ideas about the future are usually only answered in very general terms. In the "Workshop Future", everyday people have the...

Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland. Icebreakers...

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

A sequence of nine individual biographical sketches with a prologue and epilogue on Golzow and the long-term observation. Deepening of the preceding...