Movies: Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme
- 1981
Potter's Bull (1981)
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Potter's Bull is the first part of the "Over-Paintings" Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Paulus Potter's simple postcard scene entitled "The Young Bull" ("den jungen Stier") is artistically alienated in a...
- 1957
The Wind Rose (1957)
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An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world....
- 1973
The Winter's Tale (1973)
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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 talk Polyxenes into not leaving. Leontes gets suspicious. Is his wife having an affair with his frien...
- 1989
Winter adé (1989)
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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, intellectuals, young and old are implored to reflect on their life choices, the sacrifices they've made...
- 1989
Traces (1989)
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Martin Brandt (1903-1989), an unforgettable Jewish actor and former member of the Jewish Kulturbund Theater in Berlin, recites from Macbeth and Nathan the Wise, the play that opened the theater in October 1933. These last filmic images of Brandt are ...
- 1988
Marx Family (1988)
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A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London....
- 1965
O.K. (1965)
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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 interview tells the story of her individual fate in a divided Germany....
- 1967
Paul Dessau (1967)
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The film’s subtitle identifies it as a “study of the constructive discontent of a composer”. It is a portrait of the pugnacious musician Paul Dessau (1894 – 1979), who was controversial in East Germany, as a teacher. It follows the composer as he reh...
- 1989
Max Hoelz (1989)
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Documentary about German communist Max Hoelz (1889-1933)....
- 1988
From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich (1988)
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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 working people in opposing social orders. Using the example of shipyard workers, fishermen, the bri...
- 1988
whisper & SHOUT (1988)
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Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie features young people using music to express their take on life, opposi...
- 1966
Ehrenmänner (1966)
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In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their wives and children behind in order to live in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the second chapter, u...
- 1972
Love 2002 (1972)
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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 the Berlin-Schönefeld airport are questioned about how they imagine life in thirty years. These interv...
- 1967
Der Zeuge (1967)
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Documentary film...
- 1981
Martin Luther (1981)
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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 to our time. Most of the places associated with Luther, the great Reformer and translator of the Bibl...
- 1966
The Laughing Man (1966)
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Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk about his life and war campaigns in Af...
- 1991
City-Sleeper (1991)
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Homelessness in New York. Interviews with those affected. An architect from San Francisco comes up with the idea of building the so-called "City Sleeper" - a housing container. Couldn't the City Sleeper also be used for the homeless of the Federal Re...
- 1978
Wittstock III (1978)
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- 1968
Zoo Film (1968)
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This black and white documentary film reports from the Berlin Zoo, located in the Friedrichsfelde district of the Lichtenberg district, was opened in 1955 and is the largest landscape animal garden in Europe with an area of 160 hectares. With shots w...
- 1988
Feuerland (1988)
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Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century....