Defa Movies

A story of ten years old Karl who is living in Berlin in the beginning of thirties.

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

Follows the migration voyages of eels.

In 1987, a Berlin couple hits the small stage with rock'n'roll - petticoat, stripped socks, ducktail and all. A laid-back study of a GDR slice of life...

Young people living in a children’s home in Mecklenburg talk about their unstable home situations and domestic violence. Many of them have alcoholic p...

East German documentary.

The film reports on the return of Soviet units from Czechoslovakia (CSSR) to their stationing areas in the GDR. It depicts the reception by the popula...

Adopted from the CSSR, the surreal film deals with the increase in sexually transmitted diseases, especially among young people between the ages of 18...

This educational film is aimed at 12 to 15-year-old boys and girls and depicts the attitudes and experiences of this age group in relation to their fi...

This documentary reports on sixteen- and seventeen-year-old girls and boys in the 10th grade of the Extended Secondary School (EOS) 33 in Potsdam. Con...

Three couples are presented who live together under very different conditions and in different situations. They are between the ages of 19 and 23, whe...

Teenagers talk about the butterflies in one’s stomach, their curiosity or their disillusionment after the “first time”.

In the relaxed holiday atmosphere at the Baltic Sea, the director questions 9th grade pupils about their first experiences with the other sex.

The film looks at the problems of high school students in an 11th grade class in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. The focus is on interpersonal relationships....

The educational film is a variation on an old theme. It shows that human coexistence is a complicated but learnable art.

Through very personal statements by the protagonists, the film provides an insight into the individual form of (romantic) relationships of young heter...

Contraception as a joint task of the couple and the avoidance of pregnancy during adolescence are the subject of the film based on interviews with you...