Movies: Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme
- 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
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...
- 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....
- 1957
The Wind Rose (1957)
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An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world....
- 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...
- 1946
Unity SPD – KPD (1946)
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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 would lead to the creation of the Socialist Unity Party that would rule the soon-to-be-created East ...
- 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
Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman (1989)
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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 understanding. Her seven male employees respect her. To the outside world, they are all tough guys, but a...
- 1991
Bulky Trash (1991)
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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 call themselves "Bulk Rubbish" and they drum out their resentment, having grown up on the new housing estat...
- 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 ...
- 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....
- 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...
- 1962
In the Pergamom Museum (1962)
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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 figures. The amazement at the beauty and grace of the antique sculptures is reflected in the faces of the...
- 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...
- 1954
Song of the Rivers (1954)
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An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run through their respective lands. The film was shot on the Volga, the Mississippi, the Nile, the Yangtz...
- 1967
Der Zeuge (1967)
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Documentary film...
- 1952
Blue Bandanas in the Summer Wind (1952)
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Summer holidays of young pioneers and the report of the pioneer meeting in Dresden in August 1952....
- 1984
Diese Golzower - Umstandsbestimmung eines Ortes (1984)
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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 and present. In sketches also the parents' generation and the current state of affairs in the lives o...
- 1974
Wer die Erde liebt (1974)
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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....
- 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...