Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Filmes

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

In December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Four years later—the Islamic calendar's year 1362—, director Volker Koepp visited...

Documentary film

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the surroundings of the textile factory. Older gentlemen in a pub reveal that two factories produced...

An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

A short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media.

Scenes of everyday life in South Africa which give an idea of the daily racism in this country.

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to...

Protests in Hasselbach in the Hunsrück Mountains against the deployment of 96 Cruise Missiles.

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...

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,...

A film about German mercenary soldiers.

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 moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance...

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

GDR anti-Vietnam propaganda film with footage of East Germans donating blood to be sent to the Viet Cong soldiers.

At a Bach concert, a letter is read aloud in which the legation council of the Federal Republic of Germany tries to poach the musicians of the...