Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

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

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...

Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German...

East German-Syrian co-production about archaeological excavations in Syria.

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...

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

Using contemporary artistic representations in words and pictures, the documentary intends to create an overall view of the historical significance...

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

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

A class reunion of the twenty-somethings in the old school. What one remembers, what the individual has new to tell. One of them: Marieluise. Her...

Around the festival week for the 675th anniversary of Golzow for GDR television a portrait of the village, its landscape and agriculture in the past...

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

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

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

They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration. They visit Weimar, the...

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 final exam of sixteen and seventeen year olds at the end of the 10th grade. The individual in the minutes in which he is supposed to show what he...