Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

Vacation in Sylt is a black and white compilation film about Heinz Reinefarth, a Nazi Party member, high SS police leader of Warthe, and later mayor...

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to West Germany and came back. This film...

A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men....

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

A sequence of nine individual biographical sketches with a prologue and epilogue on Golzow and the long-term observation. Deepening of the preceding...

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to...

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

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

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the...

Ten years after breaking off the film "Anka and ..." nearly all the protagonists of that time have disappeared. Mario and Tilo hung themselves in the...

Documentary about a neck mill in Bulgaria

The children of Golzow, six or seven years old, in kindergarten. Their enrollment in school together, the first days of school. Playfully learning...

How the class community is formed. The children's environment and the experiences and discoveries that the school gives them. They are reflected in...

The final exam of sixteen and seventeen year olds at the end of the 10th grade. The individual in the minutes in which he is supposed to show what he...

The age group in a group portrait of the fifth grade. They make suggestions for filming at school, in their free time and at home. Growing challenges...