Defa Studio Fur Dokumentarfilme Movies

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

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

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...

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...

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

Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

The life stories of four people struggling with alcohol addiction allow for conversations about the apparent "normalcy" of alcohol and the subsequent...

For over a year, the film team accompanied an eighth grade class and interviewed the students about their first romantic relationships as well as...

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

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

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...

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

A young couple, whose first child was born with a disability, ask in front of the camera about ways to rule out a disability for the next pregnancy:...

The first part of the film explains human reproduction, the female and male organs and bodily functions. In the second part, the problem of the...

The documentary reports on the goings-on at the only GDR racecourse in Berlin-Karlshorst. Pensioner Herta Rogau, who has been in charge of a betting...

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...

The Nikolaikirche is the oldest building in Berlin. The reconstruction of this building in 1981 marked the beginning of the reconstruction of the...