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DEFA Film Library

DEFA Film Library is an art museum.

About DEFA Film Library

The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the only research center and archive outside of Germany devoted to a broad spectrum of filmmaking from and related to the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany). DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) was the name of the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic.

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Artworks shown from DEFA Film Library are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.