Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

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...

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

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

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

Women workers in East Germany.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Filmmaker Sibylle Schoenemann, imprisoned by the GDR in 1984, was released to the FRG after having West Germany literally buy her freedom. In 1990...

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

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

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

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the...

The annual production conference, speeches by functionaries and silence of the workers while they are waiting to descent into the pit. Talking of the...

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...