Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

Experiments and interviews are used in order to illustrate the special duties of care when raising children with regard to their behavior in road...

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...

A young couple, whose first child was born with a disability, ask in front of the camera about ways to rule out a disability for the next pregnancy:...

Eberhard Kunstmann, a shipbuilder at the Neptune Wharf in Rostock, counsels collegues who are struggling with alchohol addiction.

This black-and-white documentary reports on a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in East Berlin from March 24 to 29,...

The film uses documentary-style scenes, interviews and animated schematic drawings to expose the problems of the menopause as a natural stage of a...

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

Martin Brandt (1903-1989), an unforgettable Jewish actor and former member of the Jewish Kulturbund Theater in Berlin, recites from Macbeth and...

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.

An East German documentary by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike investigating NATO General Hans Speidel’s alleged role in the 1934 assassination of...

Documentary short about the Malik-Verlag (1916-1947).

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

Hosted by futurist moderator Chris Wallasch, this playful documentary speculates on what love and relationships might look like in the year 2002....

A feuilletonistic conversation with the movie audience about the question: How do you feel about going to the movies? In general - and especially in...

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

For over a year, the film team accompanied an eighth grade class and interviewed the students about their first romantic relationships as well as...

Berlin-Northeast. An area tries to meet new needs, to conform to human demands. The film registers the feelings of a girl from this area as she looks...

Documentary with beautiful black-and-white CinemaScope shots, which combined impressive scenes from a trip to the Ukraine with historical...

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...