Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Löffler, a young teacher, strives to deal with his 6th form pupils as partners and in an anti-authorian manner. The film discovers a person who...

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

Short film about electric railroad lines

Portrait of Hans Globke, jurist at the ministry of interior during the Third Reich and co-author of an official commentary to the Nuremberg Laws of...

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

Documentary short.

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the "stars" of a Berlin light bulb factory. What is striking is the...

Using some unique documents and pictures, this colour film shows the life and work of Martin Luther in the context of his own time and his relevance...

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

Two men sit on the top of a roof, playing the tuba. They continually call out absurd messages making fun of official solutions and of their own...

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria. We witness the friendly relationship...

Kurt Wans(z)ki has spent his life in psychatric clinics. He is diagnosed as: retarded to the level of early childhood, incapable of learning. Free...

Documentary short about artist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938).

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...