Films produced by Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme

The documentary chronicles the preparations in the GDR and West Germany for the Second German Gymnastics and Sports Festival in Leipzig. It describes...

Experiments and interviews are used in order to illustrate the special duties of care when raising children with regard to their behavior in road...

Based on the life experiences of photographer Horst Sturm, the story of Kollwitzplatz in Berlin is retold.

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...

Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can...

In this film about apprentices of the Rewatex laundry, Böttcher once again turns to the focal concern of almost all his films the attempt to...

This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to make black painted clay heads of Karl Marx...

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.

Filmmaker Sibylle Schoenemann, imprisoned by the GDR in 1984, was released to the FRG after having West Germany literally buy her freedom. In 1990...

Documentary about a neck mill in Bulgaria

The annual production conference, speeches by functionaries and silence of the workers while they are waiting to descent into the pit. Talking of the...

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the...

The film uses documentary-style scenes, interviews and animated schematic drawings to expose the problems of the menopause as a natural stage of a...

Documentary short about the Malik-Verlag (1916-1947).

A life story from a bygone era. In a retirement home, the 90-year-old Hermann Reußner tells his story. He was born in 1891 in Dessau, back when...

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

The dreams of young Andrea. The camera accompanies the seven-year-old girl in 1976 when she was at school dressed up and singing as a flying...

A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973. Blending reportage with...

The documentary tells the story of Anke, Birgit and Katrin, who are training to become cattle breeders and graduate from high school. During this...