Movies

In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered...

A young woman named Karin Schröder studied biophysics in Moscow and has now returned to the GDR with her diploma. She is thirsty for action,...

Observations of everyday life in Krakow.

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house that she believes has a...

A young merchant's son spends his entire fortune to be able to throw lavish parties with his cronies. All he has left in the end is an old magic...

Overnight, Ernst has to leave his mother Agathe and Nazi Germany for Paris because he took part in a protest. But there, all traces of him are lost....

The film reports on the massive forest damage in the Ore Mountains on the Czech-German border and the desperate struggle of foresters and residents...

An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.

An adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".

The young forester Rudolf is released from a mental hospital after suffering from a mental illness. His widowed mother accompanies the taciturn son...

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 report on the oldest citizen of the GDR at the time, Emma Wagner from Gotha.

A very little man attacks two huge feet and fights with all his power against them until his downfall. While dying, he is still convinced that he is...

A young artist receives a telegram: his girlfriend has a stopover at Potsdam station. She wants to use the time to see him... The movie tells of...

The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancée...

A filmed reportage on the 1st session of the International Commission of Enquiry into the Crimes committed by the military junta in Chile, Helsinki,...

Moy de Tohá and Isabel Letelier tell their story. They are the widows of two Defence Ministers of the Unidad Popular, who knew too much.

Trini avenges the torture of his uncle by a landowner’s son. Trini and his fellow peons destroy the landowner’s home and overpower his...

Film report on the VII District Children's and Youth Spartakiade in Quedlinburg, combined with a presentation of sports education in the GDR in...