From DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme Studios

Short film about electric railroad lines

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria. We witness the friendly relationship...

Documentary about a neck mill in Bulgaria

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

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

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

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

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

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working...

The futuristically trendy moderator Chris Wallasch leads the viewer through this program exploring what love might look like in 2002. Passengers at...

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

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

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East...

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...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

Volker Koepp's second Wittstock film.

Documentary film

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