Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

Experiments and interviews are used in order to illustrate the special duties of care when raising children with regard to their behavior in road...

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:...

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

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...

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...

Berlin-Northeast. An area tries to meet new needs, to conform to human demands. The film registers the feelings of a girl from this area as she looks...

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...

This black-and-white documentary reports on a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in East Berlin from March 24 to 29,...

The dreams of young Andrea. The camera accompanies the seven-year-old girl in 1976 when she was at school dressed up and singing as a flying...

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

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

A consciously modern depiction of working women in East Germany – labourers and managers in a garment factory talk about relationships and...

Eberhard Kunstmann, a shipbuilder at the Neptune Wharf in Rostock, counsels collegues who are struggling with alchohol addiction.

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

Women workers in East Germany.

How are problems solved in a socialist country? The film centres on an old gasworks in the middle of a workers' district in Berlin, capital of the...

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

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

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