Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Filmes

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

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

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...

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...

Impressions of a playground in Berlin. It is also the playing field of the elderly chess and card players - counterpoint to the argument of isolation...

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

Documentary short about the Leipzig Tradefair in 1946.

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

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

Urlaub auf Sylt (Vacation in Sylt) (1957) is an East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The film investigates the past of...

A consciously modern depiction of working women in East Germany – labourers and managers in a garment factory talk about relationships and...

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

In view of the rapidly advancing development of technology, the film draws attention to the fact that people will not be able to manage without...

Sixth Wittstock film. This Wittstock film, co-produced by the French broadcaster La Sept, begins in 1990. Koepp shows the consequences of...

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

The documentary deals with the subject of "big city noise" in a humorous and satirical, but also serious way, using the example of East Berlin,...

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...

Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.

A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

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