Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

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 documentary about young people just starting their higher education and their professional life.

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...

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...

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

Documentary about a neck mill in Bulgaria

Documentary short.

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

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and...

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

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...

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...

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

Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...

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