Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

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

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to int...

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...

Portrait of the industrialist Walter Hunger from Frankenberg in Saxony. He left the German Democratic Republic in 1958 with his family and closest col...

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

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and pr...

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...

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

On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was established in the 1950s with the active support of t...

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the histo...

The age group in a group portrait of the fifth grade. They make suggestions for filming at school, in their free time and at home. Growing challenges...

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

SS officer Walter Krüger talks about his career. Now he is Secretary of the „Kameradschaftsverband I. Panzerkorps der ehemaligen Waffen-SS e.V.” (Fell...

Summertime in Prerow at the Baltic Sea. A cheerful film with the spirit of the sixties.

Volker Koepp's second Wittstock film.

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...