Defa Studio Fur Trickfilme Movies

Two hands prepare a paper cutting... They create a tailor made from black cardboard and let him go into a paper world. He comes alive and together wit...

Uli has found an old book in the attic of the Kulturhaus that tells of the exploitation of the peasants by the feudal lords. He tries to imagine how t...

Before going to bed, Jana plays a lullaby on her violin for the little star. In the girl's imagination, the star dances happily and falls from the sky...

When the Nazis took power, the Jewish artist Leo Haas (1901-1983) was arrested in his Czechoslovakian hometown. He spent the next six years in differe...

The fumes emanating from a traffic jam make everybody, and every animal, cough.

Two men sit on an island watching the sunset. When a storm gathers, they decide to build a boat. While one man is mindful of the coming danger and urg...

This short animation film, which is part of the series Musikalische Arabesken (Musical Arabesks),is a colorful and expressionistic interpretation of...

An enumeration of various ways by which the public might react to a film projection.

A short animation film on Martin Luther and the origins of the Reformation, one told with wry humor and paper cut-outs.

A man meets a yellow dog. They play with one another, and the man turns yellow. This doesn’t please a blue dog. The silhouette films by Bruno J. Böttg...

Two neighbours argue about which one of them should get rid of a pile of rubbish.

Animated East German short about a dissenting bird.