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A temple of German expressionist cinema, a mythical place haunted by the ghosts of Fritz Lang and Marlene Dietrich, the Babelsberg studios had a promising future. But the Nazi regime made talented directors flee and imposed soulless comedies and propaganda films. After the second world war came 40 years of communist regime where the directors of the DEFA company, who from 1946 to the fall of the wall, were the emblem of cinema for the GDR created the first anti-fascist films and tried to give socialism a human face.