Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots...

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

Tito in Deutschland (Tito in Germany) (1965) is an East German short documentary directed by Manfred Krause and Andrew Thorndike. The film explores...

Director Bernd Sahling documents almost four years in the life of a young man who experienced two political systems, East and West Germany, and...

Sketches from a store cashier's everyday life.

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,...

The enjoyment of life between the construction site and the caravans is not as cultured, as the officially ordered leisure time was supposed to be.

The first part of the film explains human reproduction, the female and male organs and bodily functions. In the second part, the problem of 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...

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...

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin in 1950.

Sixth Wittstock film.

A class reunion of the twenty-somethings in the old school. What one remembers, what the individual has new to tell. One of them: Marieluise. Her...

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

In late 1990 times are changing in Zehdenick, Brandenburg: Russian troops are leaving, the German Reunification brings euphoria and new hope, but...

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

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...

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics,...