Iliyotazamwa zaidi Kutoka DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

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

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

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

A sequence of nine individual biographical sketches with a prologue and epilogue on Golzow and the long-term observation. Deepening of the preceding...

Short film about electric railroad lines

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men....

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

Documentary short.

Documentary short.

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by...

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town...

Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

Short humorous documentary about the sounds of Berlin.

The children of Golzow, six or seven years old, in kindergarten. Their enrollment in school together, the first days of school. Playfully learning...

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of...

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...