Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Filmes

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

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

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

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

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working...

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

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

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

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...

Found footage documentary about the rise of the nazi party and the second world war.

A sequence of nine individual biographical sketches with a prologue and epilogue on Golzow and the long-term observation. Deepening of the preceding...

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic...

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the...

They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration. They visit Weimar, the...