The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...
Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
The destruction of the traditional legal system is probably one of the lesser-known yet essential go...
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
In this documentary, Joachim Hellwig uses partly unpublished footage to shed light on a dark chapter...
The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of...
Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR...
This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understan...
On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the ...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...
In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film ...
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almo...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...
Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing...