Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was established in the 1950s with the active support of t...

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).

Once again Kurt Tetzlaff portrays Alexander, who in 1990 works as a nurse and is active in the “Action Reconciliation”. The sense of departure of the...

Documentary short about the Malik-Verlag (1916-1947).

The Belgian documentarian Frans Buyens interviewed passers-by in East Berlin and Dresden, factory workers and technical draftswomen at the Warnow ship...

Morbidly beautiful images show the unreasonable working conditions at a rusty factory.

A cinematic visit to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The camera usually observes the visitors and paints their views on scenes of the ensemble of figur...

Documentary film

Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation

With excerpts from Goethe's diary, sketches and engravings, this film follows Goethe's Italian Journey through Rome, Naples and Pompeii.

A documentary about the planning and construction of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin.

Impressions of a playground in Berlin. It is also the playing field of the elderly chess and card players - counterpoint to the argument of isolation...

Chile 1985, the repression of the Chilean people by the dictatorship and the resistance, accompanied by the music of the exiled composer Angel Parra.

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the constru...

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...