Películas Originales De Defa

The World War II. 1944. Nazis staged a cache which stores archival documents of its agents, rescued from the east during the retreat, near a small German town Ostburga.

La película final en la trilogía del cine de guerra de Rossellini (las dos primeras fueron Roma, Ciudad Abierta y Paisà). Alemania Año Cero tiene lugar en Alemania después de la guerra, a diferencia d...

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where his father works as a construction worker. Stefan mus...

Shortly after Chile's 1973 military coup, three men are fleeing across the Andes to Argentina. They witness the murder of a farmer by Chilean police and end up at the home of the farmer's heavily preg...

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack of materials... not to mention their love of leat...

Kasper Mai, an export merchant and comrade with a “clean” record, discovers he is the prince of Hohenlohe-Liebenstein. His royal grandmother designates him as the heir to her estate. A private trip to...

Romantic comedy about a series of mix-ups. Brigitte Kaufmann wants to divorce her husband Jörg who is an engineer and chief executive of an electronics company – and a hopeless pedant. Benno, a former...

La historia de dos mujeres, una francesa y otra alemana, que luchan por un niño que ha sido erróneamente tomado por los alemanes después de un ataque con bombas.

Screen adaptation of Eichendorff's famous novella. A penniless drifter roams the land with his violin and preferably sings his songs to beautiful women. Two of his female admirers get him employed as ...

The 24-year-old Andreas works as a mechanic at a tunnel building site in the Bulgarian Rhodopes. One day, he gets the startling news that his girlfriend Sabine, who is supposedly waiting for him in th...

The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.

En un futuro cercano, durante el transcurso de unas excavaciones en el desierto de Gobi, se encuentra un extraño objeto de origen extraterrestre que contiene un misterioso mensaje. Un grupo de científ...

A funny story about a friendship between the children of East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work on his own, flatly refusing to join any collective farming activities. He desperately wants a large...

A refugee from a Nazi concentration camp is discovered by some boys in WWII Berlin. They provide him with food and help him to continue his flight. Later one of the boys, the son of a communist, is ch...

Germany in 1943. The Berlin worker Klaus Hartung is deployed as a soldier to the Eastern front during World War II. During a tour, he is captured by a Russian patrol. While in captivity, Hartung comes...

Film by Bärbl Bergmann.

In this documentary, life on the other side of the Berlin Wall is exposed through interviews, archival footage, and propaganda. Made in 1993, That Was the GDR: A History of the Other Germany is a chro...

17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.

A group of children are trying to organize a pioneers detachment.

Tomas and his friends are happy in their town and school but must face the fact that some of the adults around are preparing to leave GDR and move to West Germany.

Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritani...

The little African girl Asina is eagerly waiting for her new friend Karli. Karli is a young sailor from Rostock who has promised her a gift on his next arrival in Coccatuttibana. Karli keeps his promi...

A funny story about fifth grader Ottokar who is always ready to fight for justice.

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position a...

Un joven ingeniero es enviado a Berlín para ayudar a los estadounidenses a espiar a los rusos. En un tiempo y lugar donde la discreción sigue siendo el mejor amigo de un hombre, se enamora de una mist...

Brigitta Nielebeck sufre un grave accidente de coche del que, milagrosamente ,sale ilesa. Sin embargo, ha perdido la memoria. Los médicos le recomiendan que pase tiempo con algún familiar. Por ese mot...

Dos soldados alemanes capturados por los rusos durante la I Guerra Mundial se hacen amigos. Richard comparte historias íntimas sobre su esposa Anna, y Karl se enamoran de ella en sus pensamientos. Un ...

Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his friend Alfons, a World War I veteran, gives him a trumpet as a gift, Fritz seems to come...

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

Un joven herrero, buscando felicidad en una serie de sueños, se da cuenta de que debe encontrar a una princesa rechazada y sostener su mano. Un cuento de hadas después de los hermanos Grimm.

Film by Kläy and Brauer.

Despite the fact that production manager Kruse doesn't have the actors or the crew for the job, he recklessly boasts that he could direct a revue film. To prevent him losing face, Kruse brings togethe...

Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.

Because her boyfriend had instigated her to steal cigarettes, Sabine is sent to a youth detention centre. At the age of 18, she is released and wants to start a new life. She rents her own room and st...