DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme Popular Movie

Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German...

Genre: Documentary

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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 brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helke Misselwitz

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Karin R.

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

Genre: Documentary

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Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gundula Schulze Eldowy

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

Genre: Documentary

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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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ralf Marschalleck

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Winfried Junge

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

The first summarizing film about the path of the class and the common stations in life. But also about the different paths in the profession, in...

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yves Montand

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

Genre: Documentary

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Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dieter Mann

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rudolf Wessely