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

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

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

Dresden old and new, in between photo documents from 1945/46, the time of resurrection, enriched by very personal commentaries by woman director...

Around the festival week for the 675th anniversary of Golzow for GDR television a portrait of the village, its landscape and agriculture in the past...

SS officer Walter Krüger talks about his career. Now he is Secretary of the „Kameradschaftsverband I. Panzerkorps der ehemaligen Waffen-SS...

In 1986, 60% of all machine tools in the GDR were produced by WMW "Fritz Heckert" in Karl-Marx-Stadt. This documentary introduces some of the Heckert...

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

How the class community is formed. The children's environment and the experiences and discoveries that the school gives them. They are reflected in...

Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the...

The futuristically trendy moderator Chris Wallasch leads the viewer through this program exploring what love might look like in 2002. Passengers at...

Erich Honecker visits the Republic of Zambia

DEFA documentary about the Khanty people of Siberia.

The film is an appeal by the International Democratic Women's Federation against a new war, calling on all mothers of the world to protect their...

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

The compilation film looks back on four decades of East German film production to mark the 40th anniversary of DEFA. Beginning with the founding...

Dammbeck made this film – a reference to the myth of Icarus and a metaphor for failure, hope, and human exploration – at the invitation...

Portrait of the industrialist Walter Hunger from Frankenberg in Saxony. He left the German Democratic Republic in 1958 with his family and closest...

A short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears.