Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

Berlin-Northeast. An area tries to meet new needs, to conform to human demands. The film registers the feelings of a girl from this area as she looks...

A fairy-tale of the Sorbian poet Jurij Brezan as an allegory of threatened nature dedicated to the Sorbs.

A two-part East German documentary tracing Russia’s transformation from the Tsarist Empire to the Soviet Union, from the 1917 October...

An East German documentary by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike investigating NATO General Hans Speidel’s alleged role in the 1934 assassination of...

The film follows the creation, construction and design of the “Grand Hotel” on Friedrichstrasse in East Berlin: from the excavation pit...

The life stories of four people struggling with alcohol addiction allow for conversations about the apparent "normalcy" of alcohol and the subsequent...

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

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...

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

Around 1,500 people from more than forty countries met in Dresden for the 1984 congress of UNIMA, the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Founded...

The film uses documentary-style scenes, interviews and animated schematic drawings to expose the problems of the menopause as a natural stage of a...

A life story from a bygone era. In a retirement home, the 90-year-old Hermann Reußner tells his story. He was born in 1891 in Dessau, back when...

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...

Rolf Jarschel’s passion are lighters of every kind. He owns the largest collection in Europe with over 3,000 items. From Phoenician oil lamps...

Experiments and interviews are used in order to illustrate the special duties of care when raising children with regard to their behavior in road...

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

The film draws attention to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, especially among adolescents and young adults, and identifies partner...

The dreams of young Andrea. The camera accompanies the seven-year-old girl in 1976 when she was at school dressed up and singing as a flying...

A short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media.

The annual production conference, speeches by functionaries and silence of the workers while they are waiting to descent into the pit. Talking of the...