Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

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

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

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

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality.

Vacation in Sylt is a black and white compilation film about Heinz Reinefarth, a Nazi Party member, high SS police leader of Warthe, and later mayor (...

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Pots...

Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by convey...

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

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no lon...

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 a duke...

Short film about electric railroad lines

Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

Documentary short.