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Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Spitzer

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wolfgang Heinz

This documentary details the life of Klaus Fuchs who was a spy for the Soviet Union while working on nuclear research in the United States and Great...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Heinz-Dieter Knaup

The documentary shows historical film footage from the workers' and farmers' faculties (ABF) of the GDR, which existed until 1962 and were intended...

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ritchie Barton

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helke Misselwitz

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helke Misselwitz

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yves Montand

Black and white short documentary about the patrol of the EMW radio car "Toni 14" of the Berlin police.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gerry Wolff

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Siegfried Müller

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...

Genre: Documentary

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Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Niklaus

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Spitzer

Two men sit on the top of a roof, playing the tuba. They continually call out absurd messages making fun of official solutions and of their own...

Genre: Comedy

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A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Klaus Piontek

Children are introduced to the magical world of cinema in a cheerful and fantastic way; embedded in a turbulent story, they learn about the film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kurt Böwe

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roland Steiner

The age group in a group portrait of the fifth grade. They make suggestions for filming at school, in their free time and at home. Growing challenges...

Genre: Documentary

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Summer holidays of young pioneers and the report of the pioneer meeting in Dresden in August 1952.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ernst Kahler

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roland Steiner