Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

The “Raging Reporter” Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) was one of the most significant journalists of the 1920s and 30s. He wrote from a communist point o...

Documentary short about the construction of the Markersbach Pumped Storage Power Plant in East Germany.

The foundations and effects of the law to ensure full equality for women are presented with a wide range of examples.

Löffler, a young teacher, strives to deal with his 6th form pupils as partners and in an anti-authorian manner. The film discovers a person who - with...

In 1986, 60% of all machine tools in the GDR were produced by WMW "Fritz Heckert" in Karl-Marx-Stadt. This documentary introduces some of the Heckert...

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to West Germany and came back. This film inte...

Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic works...

The film draws attention to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, especially among adolescents and young adults, and identifies partner changes...

A cinema-verité documentary of Ghana’s five years of independence under President Kwame Nkruma. Striking color images of Africans in modern-day jobs,...

The film proves that the apparently ideally and extremely purposefully coordinated relationships between flowers and the insects that pollinate them a...

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

This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names -...

A documentary about German director Konrad Wolf (1925–1982).

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

The story of communist Walter Zauner who in 1952 was one of the first in the Federal Republic to be convicted of sabotage of a military installation.

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of...

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