Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

Voigt, Kroske and Richter were among the first filmmakers who documented the events of the historic 9th of October 1989. Their “material”...

Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German...

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

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

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

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working...

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,...

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

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

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).

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

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

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

A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against...