Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys...

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

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

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,...

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

The story of the Grünthal peasants' uprising against the commander who oppresses and exploits them.

Although mocked by his collegaues, the dean of Salamanca sets off to find the legendary bird Turlipan.

Black and white short documentary about the patrol of the EMW radio car "Toni 14" of the Berlin police.

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

Johann Friedrich GutsMuths (1759-1839) was an educator and co-founder of gymnastics. He developed an entire system of gymnastic exercises for young...

A feuilletonistic conversation with the movie audience about the question: How do you feel about going to the movies? In general - and especially in...

A little man wants to order a warm coat from a fabric he has brought with him to a tailor's workshop in winter. He is laughed at and told that orders...

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

The Belgian documentarian Frans Buyens interviewed passers-by in East Berlin and Dresden, factory workers and technical draftswomen at the Warnow...

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

Children are introduced to the magical world of cinema in a cheerful and fantastic way; embedded in a turbulent story, they learn about the film...

Summer holidays of young pioneers and the report of the pioneer meeting in Dresden in August 1952.