Desde DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme Studios

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

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....

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

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

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

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

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

Short film about electric railroad lines

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...

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

A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

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

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

Documentary film

Documentary film

The film proves that the apparently ideally and extremely purposefully coordinated relationships between flowers and the insects that pollinate them...

A sequence of nine individual biographical sketches with a prologue and epilogue on Golzow and the long-term observation. Deepening of the preceding...

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...