Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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

Die Sieben vom Rhein (The Seven from the Rhine) (1954) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike. The 76-minute film...

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots...

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

Documentary short about the Leipzig Tradefair in 1946.

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

Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt - as she has for decades -...

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

Documentary about a district with social problems and an unconventional teacher, who tries to teach more than just knowledge.

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

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

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

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...