Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

The story of communist Walter Zauner who in 1952 was one of the first in the Federal Republic to be convicted of sabotage of a military installation.

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

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...

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to...

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,...

Grand Central Station, New York - the town's landmark. The camera captures impressions within 24 hours.

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

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

On October 13, 1957, cash was exchanged in the GDR (old bills 1:1 for new bills). The film reports on this event.

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remarks on the Oberhausen 66 Film Festival,"...

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

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

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men....

Palermo, pearl of the Mediterranean, is one of the most popular holiday resorts for European and American tourists. What they do not see, however,...

An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to West Germany and came back. This 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...