Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

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

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...

Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can...

The lower level of Lichtenberg Station in Belin in early October 1989: the beginning of the end for the GDR. In the snack bar, the staff are catering...

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

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

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

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...

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...

Documentary film

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

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

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...