Defa Movies

Film by Bärbl Bergmann.

Educational film about sexually transmitted diseases.

This puppet animation film is based on Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. A 1936 symphonic fairy tale for children, the piece tells the story of P...

After 35 years of military service, Officer Jürgen Drost takes on the job of mayor in the small village where he lived with his mother after World War...

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.

Shortly after the end of World War II, young carpenter Achim is sent to a remote farm to do some repair work. Three women from different generations a...

History teacher and coin collector Karl Schneider wants to track down an ancient coin while on vacation in Bulgaria. When he meets a group of musician...

Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plans: As a passionate trumpeter, he wants to study mu...

Film by Walter Beck.

Animated East German short about a dissenting bird.

A child abduction story ordered by a non-custodial uncle with the background of the East/West-German separation.