Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Movies

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, a...

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

Documentary about a neck mill in Bulgaria

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of...

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am Klavi...

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

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town sever...

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

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 a...

The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria. We witness the friendly relationship betwe...

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 t...

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the tang...

Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt - as she has for decades - sor...

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

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East Germany...