DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme Populær film

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Ritchie Barton

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Siegfried Müller

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

Sjanger: Documentary

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

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Yves Montand

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

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Winfried Junge

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

Sjanger: Documentary

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

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Helke Misselwitz

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

Sjanger: Documentary

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In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Helke Misselwitz

Martin Brandt (1903-1989), an unforgettable Jewish actor and former member of the Jewish Kulturbund Theater in Berlin, recites from Macbeth and...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: André Hennicke

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to West Germany and came back. This film...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Gerhard Scheumann

Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can...

Sjanger: Animation

Cast: Elsa Grube-Deister

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...

Sjanger: Documentary

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The futuristically trendy moderator Chris Wallasch leads the viewer through this program exploring what love might look like in 2002. Passengers at...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Chris Wallasch

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Maximilian Scheer

Documentary film

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Hans-Peter Minetti

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

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Ernst Kahler

Around the festival week for the 675th anniversary of Golzow for GDR television a portrait of the village, its landscape and agriculture in the past...

Sjanger: Documentary

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A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Yasser Arafat

Using some unique documents and pictures, this colour film shows the life and work of Martin Luther in the context of his own time and his relevance...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Erich Honecker