Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

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...

The film shows the flag handover and swearing-in ceremony of the first unit of the National People's Army on the eve of May 1, 1956 and the parade of...

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

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

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

A young couple, whose first child was born with a disability, ask in front of the camera about ways to rule out a disability for the next pregnancy:...

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

Based on the life experiences of photographer Horst Sturm, the story of Kollwitzplatz in Berlin is retold.

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...

What became of Hitler’s last array, born in 1928, visited 40 years later?

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

How are problems solved in a socialist country? The film centres on an old gasworks in the middle of a workers' district in Berlin, capital of the...

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

Dresden old and new, in between photo documents from 1945/46, the time of resurrection, enriched by very personal commentaries by woman director...

The documentary reports on the most important stages of Thomas Müntzer's life, from his birthplace in Stolberg to his place of death in the...

For over a year, the film team accompanied an eighth grade class and interviewed the students about their first romantic relationships as well as...

The first part of the film explains human reproduction, the female and male organs and bodily functions. In the second part, the problem of the...