Defa Movies

Based upon a true story, the movie centers on the German communist Robert, a "Kapo" in a concentration camp. When some Polish children are brought to...

Two men and two women in a hotel.

Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldiers are ordered to be kind to the populace, since...

Shot in 1944, finished and released in 1954.

A love story based on a famous Ivan Turgenev novel.

Film by Bernhard Stephan.

A sociohistorical drama about the construction of the Simplon-tunnel: A conflict develops when German workers want to strike and fight for better work...

It is the 65th birthday of Wilhelm Lehmann, foreman of a chemical company. All members of the large family are expected. Preparations are also being m...

Hatifa is tired of her difficult fate and escapes from the place of her enslavement, a quarry in the desert. There she wanders around in freedom, but...

A group of children are trying to organize a pioneers detachment.

Germany at the end of World War II: Teacher Grübler lives in a small village in the Ore Mountains together with his 15-year old son Wolfgang. At schoo...

A woman in her mid thirties drifts through Berlin on a Friday night then lazes around her apartment with her husband the next morning.