Defa Studio Fur Wochenschau Und Dokumentarfilme Filmes

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly...

Documentary about a youth work brigade working on the construction of a tower block in Berlin-Marzahn

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).

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

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

Voigt, Kroske and Richter were among the first filmmakers who documented the events of the historic 9th of October 1989. Their “material”...

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...

Documenting the rebuilding of Potsdam one year after the war under Soviet supervision.

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

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

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has repeatedly struggled with domestic political...

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

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...

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

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

Böttchers film showcases three young workers who learn how to paint, draw, and make sculptures out of stone. The film generated a storm of...

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.