From 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...

Short film about electric railroad lines

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

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

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

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has repeatedly struggled with domestic political...

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

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

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...