Defa Studio Fur Kurzfilme Movies

The film follows the career of Karl-Theodor Molinari from major in the Wehrmacht to general in the Bundeswehr. Authentic archive material and...

Everything started with a forbidden apple. The independent and intellectual man is responsible for continuous progress. But when profit-greedy people...

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...

Empty boxes and packaging, a little paint, brushes and a lot of imagination - the result is a whole zoo with Balthazar the Lion. He only has one...

This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfeld chemical plant set themselves the task of...

"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropolis of East Berlin. As an emphatically lively,...

Documentary reports on night workers in the German Democratic Republic in the fall of 1973. The camera provides insights into the difficult and often...

The women’s committees in the GDR factories promote the technical and ideological-political qualification of female staff members. However, the...

Nörgel is on his way home from the Leipzig market. He is exhausted from the trade business using animals as an exchange. There should be an...

A black-and-white children’s film follows class 6b during their autumn holidays. After a fun test drive with a new electric locomotive, they...

Documentary focusing on socialism and East German industry and labour, including a script of Lenin's most famous writings and speeches.

The film outlines the life of this revolutionary leader of the German and international working-class movement.

On the occasion of the GDR Landeskulturgesetz (Law on the Conservation and Protection of the Environment), passed in 1970, the speaker explains the...

How young people were manipulated to join the war during the Imperial Era.

A documentary about Monika Töpper, a young woman in Gebersdorf, Thuringia, who has cared for her two brothers and elderly father since her...

"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropolis of East Berlin. As an emphatically lively,...

The lion, wolf and fox use modern technologies for producing their food instead of traditional hunting methods. They set up a farm where they fatten...

A journey through a nature reserve in the GDR: the island of Hiddensee—with a special focus on the landscape, flora, and fauna.