Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

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...

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

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...

Women workers in East Germany.

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

A class reunion of the twenty-somethings in the old school. What one remembers, what the individual has new to tell. One of them: Marieluise. Her...

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

The first summarizing film about the path of the class and the common stations in life. But also about the different paths in the profession, in...

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

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

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

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 documentary tells the story of Anke, Birgit and Katrin, who are training to become cattle breeders and graduate from high school. During this...

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...

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

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

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...