Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.

This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to make black painted clay heads of Karl Marx...

Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can...

Actor Manfred Krug reports on winter sports in the GDR. Numerous topics are covered in short segments: promoting young talent in winter sports,...

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

A film about five street children; children who have had to grow up too soon. The footage was shot at Christmas 1992, in Berlin. Claudia, 13, wants...

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

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...

The epilogue to the film "The Laughing Man" (1966), which alternates between objectivity and anger, exposes the involvement of the West German...

A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973. Blending reportage with...

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad

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

Palermo, pearl of the Mediterranean, is one of the most popular holiday resorts for European and American tourists. What they do not see, however,...

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

The documentary portrays the art historian Wilhelm von Bode as a realistic visionary.

Multilayered documentary about the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR: Half a hundred buildings, a thousand rooms, bunkers,...

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

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.