Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This enchanting film, the very first opera production of DEFA, stands out because of its lavish decor and costumes, its outstanding actors and their masterful voices of that time.

In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Gr...

The stage emulates life and compresses it, setting free skills learned over lifetimes in brief but d...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...

Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then, they all fa...

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 19...

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apar...

In this East German teen musical, a group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation togeth...

There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...

A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bach...

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for e...

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is...

A new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the Mommsen ...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

A man who sells coffee for a living gets his boss's daughter pregnant. This changes his life and eve...
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager an...

"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a...

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own pers...

Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholom...

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworl...