Defa Studio Fur Trickfilme Movies

Anton, a touring musician, arrives in a foreign country with his tuba. The people there enjoy the music and decide to build their own instruments....

A statue, with outstretched arm pointing “forward,” is unveiled to thunderous applause. Then one day it points the other way. Once again,...

Olli, the main character in the movie, got a very bad grade and is terribly annoyed. She runs away from home and, together with a dog and a horse,...

Two neighbours argue about which one of them should get rid of a pile of rubbish.

A man waits at the side of the motorway with a tow rope, waiting for a car to tow him. Many, many cars go by without stopping until the driver of a...

A man and his donkey rescue someone from a crevice, who repays the man with gold and the donkey with sugar. Later, they hear another cry for help and...

Animated East German short about a dissenting bird.

For his mockery a witch transforms the pert boy Jacob into an ugly dwarf, but teaches him at the same time how to cook. Jacob quickly becomes a...

A raindrop falls from a leaf and seeps into the earth. Within, it is permeated by beauty, cruelty, happiness and sadness.

The very first images in the film set unprecedented standards in East German animated film: a Buñuelean eye that fills the entire screen,...

Three men shipwrecked on a desolate island are granted a helpful gift by a mermaid, only to misuse it entirely.

The fumes emanating from a traffic jam make everybody, and every animal, cough.

Animated short film based on Andersen's tale.

When Luitpold Leuwenhaupt sees a faboulous goose in the local pet shop, he can't resist buying it for christmas. But the three kids become friends...

The factories pollute the air so much that every living creature in town must wear a gas mask if they want to survive.

Cartoon based on letters and drawings of children of Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic.

A little duckling is left behind and meets other animals of the forest. Together they try to find out what the duckling is best at: digging, climbing...