Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Documentary short about the Leipzig Tradefair in 1946.

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...

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East Germany...

Two men sit on the top of a roof, playing the tuba. They continually call out absurd messages making fun of official solutions and of their own slogan...

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

Observations in a Vietnamese family after the Berlin Wall fell. Which problems and expectations resulted in their changed daily life? - They, who were...

Citations from love letters and poems written between Karl Marx and his fiancée Jenny von Westphalen during their teenage years are combined with imag...

Documentary film

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

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

The futuristically trendy moderator Chris Wallasch leads the viewer through this program exploring what love might look like in 2002. Passengers at th...

Rolf Jarschel’s passion are lighters of every kind. He owns the largest collection in Europe with over 3,000 items. From Phoenician oil lamps via Döbe...

Documentary film

Venus after Giorgione is the the second part of the "Over Paintings" (Uebermalungen) trilogy by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Us...

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...

DEFA documentary about various summer workers in Siberia.