Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to...

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance...

Spring 1988: a cinematic chronicle of the small town of Zehdenick an der Havel in the Mark Brandenburg. Brickworks have determined the rhythm of life...

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

Homelessness in New York. Interviews with those affected. An architect from San Francisco comes up with the idea of building the so-called "City...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working...

An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

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....

Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.

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,...

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 short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears.

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

Protests in Hasselbach in the Hunsrück Mountains against the deployment of 96 Cruise Missiles.