Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Filmes

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

A documentary about German director Konrad Wolf (1925–1982).

A biographical documentary about the Bulgarian born film director Slatan Dudow (1903–1963).

A film about German mercenary soldiers.

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

Voigt, Kroske and Richter were among the first filmmakers who documented the events of the historic 9th of October 1989. Their “material”...

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

Three kids from a small village in Mecklenburg decide to sneak away to East-Berlin in order to gift Angela Davis a lucky pig.

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

Images of the romantic city and tourist leaflets are burning – the vision of possible destruction.

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

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).

Black and white short documentary about the patrol of the EMW radio car "Toni 14" of the Berlin police.

People discuss their ideas of the future. In this 2nd episode of the film series, the problem of "beauty" in our current and future ideas is...

Using documentary material and the testimony of convicted agents, the film attempts to prove that the West Berlin "Kampfgruppe gegen...

Although mocked by his collegaues, the dean of Salamanca sets off to find the legendary bird Turlipan.

The economic and cultural improvements of the Soviet Occupied Sector are documented with scenes from the years 1945 to 1950. The film deals with the...

Portrait of the industrialist Walter Hunger from Frankenberg in Saxony. He left the German Democratic Republic in 1958 with his family and closest...

A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys...