On 17 May 1946, DEFA, the state film studio of what would become the GDR, was founded in the Soviet occupation zone. It produced 700 feature films, 750 animated films and 2,250 documentaries and short films. After German reunification, DEFA was dissolved (1992). In 1998, the Defa-Stiftung foundation was established to preserve and promote DEFA’s film heritage. In…