Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Filmes

The story of communist Walter Zauner who in 1952 was one of the first in the Federal Republic to be convicted of sabotage of a military installation.

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East...

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

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...

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

Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

Grand Central Station, New York - the town's landmark. The camera captures impressions within 24 hours.

Spring 1988: a cinematic chronicle of the small town of Zehdenick an der Havel in the Mark Brandenburg. Brickworks have determined the rhythm of life...

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

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of...

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

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...

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...

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

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

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remarks on the Oberhausen 66 Film Festival,"...

An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

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 fourth part of the Wittstock cycle is not only a continuation of the cinematic chronicle of the "Ernst Lück" tricot factory, but also a...