Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

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,...

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

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

The first summarizing film about the path of the class and the common stations in life. But also about the different paths in the profession, in...

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her...

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...

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 -...

The film provides a reportage-like insight into the country of Libya and its social development. The focus is particularly on the "Green Revolution",...

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...

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...

Biographical notes on the American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976). At the height of his fame and skill,...

The Belgian documentarian Frans Buyens interviewed passers-by in East Berlin and Dresden, factory workers and technical draftswomen at the Warnow...

Documentary film.

In 1980, Wolfgang E. Struck, artistic director of the Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast, wistfully considers the imminent demolition of his house due to...

The film follows on from "Mädchen in Wittstock", in which the director already portrayed young female workers at the VEB OTB...

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...