Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

The annual production conference, speeches by functionaries and silence of the workers while they are waiting to descent into the pit. Talking of the...

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

The film follows the creation, construction and design of the “Grand Hotel” on Friedrichstrasse in East Berlin: from the excavation pit...

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...

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

Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the...

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...

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 about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

Based on the life experiences of photographer Horst Sturm, the story of Kollwitzplatz in Berlin is retold.

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

The Nikolaikirche is the oldest building in Berlin. The reconstruction of this building in 1981 marked the beginning of the reconstruction of the...

Ribnitz-Damgarten, the jewel at the coast of the Baltic Sea, is located directly at the Saaler Bodden, between Stralsund and Rostock. The town and...

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...

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

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