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...

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

Women workers in East Germany.

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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:...

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 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...

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

Documentary short about the Malik-Verlag (1916-1947).