Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

The film uses documentary-style scenes, interviews and animated schematic drawings to expose the problems of the menopause as a natural stage of a...

The dreams of young Andrea. The camera accompanies the seven-year-old girl in 1976 when she was at school dressed up and singing as a flying...

The film shows the flag handover and swearing-in ceremony of the first unit of the National People's Army on the eve of May 1, 1956 and the parade of...

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

For over a year, the film team accompanied an eighth grade class and interviewed the students about their first romantic relationships as well as...

Experiments and interviews are used in order to illustrate the special duties of care when raising children with regard to their behavior in road...

Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.

Teenagers at risk who are cared for and trained in a "Jugendwerkhof", a borstal - a problem almost totally suppressed officially. The film enquires...

The Nikolaikirche is the oldest building in Berlin. The reconstruction of this building in 1981 marked the beginning of the reconstruction of the...

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

An East German documentary by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike investigating NATO General Hans Speidel’s alleged role in the 1934 assassination of...

The film follows the creation, construction and design of the “Grand Hotel” on Friedrichstrasse in East Berlin: from the excavation pit...

Documentary short about the Malik-Verlag (1916-1947).

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

What became of Hitler’s last array, born in 1928, visited 40 years later?

The life stories of four people struggling with alcohol addiction allow for conversations about the apparent "normalcy" of alcohol and the subsequent...