Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

The epilogue to the film "The Laughing Man" (1966),which alternates between objectivity and anger, exposes the involvement of the West German mercena...

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, a...

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems it...

Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad

A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours o...

The Prenzlauer Berg district in the former East Berlin was a particularly intense example of the "short summer of anarchy" on the heels of the fall of...

Born in the year 1921, Erich Fried, the son of jewish parents, had to leave his Austrian home in 1938. He emigrated to London and became a writer. He...

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

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her p...

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the tang...

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: w...

Fourth Wittstock film.

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics, lif...

This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the "stars" of a Berlin light bulb factory. What is striking is the cord...

Impressions of a playground in Berlin. It is also the playing field of the elderly chess and card players - counterpoint to the argument of isolation...

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 our...