Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

Around 1,500 people from more than forty countries met in Dresden for the 1984 congress of UNIMA, the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Founded...

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

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

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has repeatedly struggled with domestic political...

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 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:...

Citations from love letters and poems written between Karl Marx and his fiancée Jenny von Westphalen during their teenage years are combined...

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

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

This short film depicts Omega, one of Hungary's most successful rock bands, on tour in the GDR.

The documentary reports on the most important stages of Thomas Müntzer's life, from his birthplace in Stolberg to his place of death in the...

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...

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

The film shows the flag handover and swearing-in ceremony of the first unit of the National People's Army on the eve of May 1, 1956 and the parade of...