Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

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,...

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

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

This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the "stars" of a Berlin light bulb factory. What is striking is the...

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

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

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

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 short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media.

The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the history of the USA at that point of...

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

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

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...

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...

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

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 -...

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

An East German documentary film using archival footage to attempt a connection between Imperial Germany, the government of the Weimar Republic, and...