Defa Studio Fur Trickfilme Movies

Kasperle and a group of his puppet friends prepare for his grandmother's birthday-but a little green devil threatens to intervene. He steals the donut...

Part of the Filopat and Patafil series of East German animated short films.

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

A little duckling is left behind and meets other animals of the forest. Together they try to find out what the duckling is best at: digging, climbing...

Three men shipwrecked on a desolate island are granted a helpful gift by a mermaid, only to misuse it entirely.

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 suitc...

The very first images in the film set unprecedented standards in East German animated film: a Buñuelean eye that fills the entire screen, real-life se...

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...

In ancient China, there is a poet named Lo who lives in the emperor’s palace. While the hardworking people long for peace and happiness, Lo writes hym...

Little Max and his friend Tüte want to make the pharmacist into an April fool by asking him for a bottle of mosquito fat. But the pharmacist is clever...

A young and shy dragon lives in the forest. One day the young Miguelito stumbles upon the dragon. Together they travel to a nearby town in despair. Th...

With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique cinematic portrait is created. The viewer thus ge...

What would happen if Hitler came back to West Germany after passing the statute of limitations for Nazi crimes on January 1, 1965? Based on West Germa...

For his mockery a witch transforms the pert boy Jacob into an ugly dwarf, but teaches him at the same time how to cook. Jacob quickly becomes a master...