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

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

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

Found footage documentary about the rise of the nazi party and the second world war.

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

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

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

Documentary film

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

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the...

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

A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to...

A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against...

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics,...

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...