Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

Found footage documentary about the rise of the nazi party and the second world war.

Short film about electric railroad lines

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...

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

Documentary short.

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

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

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

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men....

The children of Golzow, six or seven years old, in kindergarten. Their enrollment in school together, the first days of school. Playfully learning...

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

Documentary about a neck mill in Bulgaria

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

Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by...