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DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) was the state-owned film studio of Eastern Germany from 1946-1992, dissolved after the two Germanys reunited. The Eastern German films are now preserved by the DEFA Foundation. The DEFA Filmwelt YouTube channel seems to be connected to it. So I guess this is the "official" streaming version and not just some grubby old version uploaded by a random film fan.

There are plenty of vintage DEFA films here at FLM and they are fantastic.

Arrggh... The video has a resolution of 1080p, so it's FHD.

Who cares about YouTube's labeling?

Sorry, I have no knowledge whatsoever on quality, compression, bitrate etc.. All I know is that 720p is HD so when I saw the no HD tag, it confused me (Just wish youtube properly labeled the quality option better; 720p HD and 1080p FHD.. Wouldn't have caused confusion for me)

But yea, I think I've learnt now that regardless of how low the compression or bitrate is, a 720p video will always be HD


Anyway, I have no more to add to this discussion and I'm not gonna continue further (In this thread anyway)

Yay, I managed to download it in Opera! Of course I had the sense to check in at FLM before I went any further. Thank you ghost for downloading and posting it! I have not had the time to dig up the old files to compare but I can believe your evaluation. Of course for me the most important thing is downloading and archiving files. I don't need to actually watch a movie a second or third time.

Night457 wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 11:14 pm I don't need to actually watch a movie a second or third time.

I disagree with this.. If the movie catches my attention/is a good movie, I'll watch it a trillion times

There's so many movies out there that I've watched more than thrice (And I mean thrice, not twice)

And looking at the images in this thread, this is definitely a movie I'd be up to watching more than once

Night457 wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 11:14 pm Of course for me the most important thing is downloading and archiving files. I don't need to actually watch a movie a second or third time.

File Hoarder

Night, do you have a money tree in your backyard?

I see 0 sense of downloading a file and wasting storage space just for it to never be watched lol

(I normally only keep files I absolutely love and delete the rest)

But I don't really start deleting unless I run low on storage space

I was not claiming I made "sense"! But if I judge it based on what I actually DO... I spend plenty of time searching, downloading, recoding files and then I am too tired to watch anything more complicated than "Knight Rider". I do not actually watch all the movies I collect, so clearly I do not NEED to. Apparently all I need to do is to have them, just in case I want to watch them. Storage space is never wasted: I can delete one thing and replace it with something else I don't watch either.

P.S.: There are some movies I have watched dozens of times.

The people who ask me for reups don't think my storage space is wasted.

Night457 wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 2:29 am I can delete one thing and replace it with something else I don't watch either.

Well, that's the problem. I can delete "one thing". But what good does that do? I have already downloaded 10 more things. There's no way to delete enough to keep up.

DreamScape wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 5:32 am The people who ask me for reups don't think my storage space is wasted.

Exactly! I just sometimes get a little wistful when I reshare an old file that I was excited about at the time, and realize that I never got around to watching it. Now I seek to avoid that problem: when I actually DO watch something, I no longer move it to the "watched" folder. So a year or two from now I can reshare something, and whether I watched it or not I can tell myself "Oh yeah, that was a great film! I am glad I downloaded it, and now others can enjoy it as much as I did." What I don't remember correctly won't hurt me.

I have already downloaded 10 more things. There's no way to delete enough to keep up.

I totally relate. But when one "thing" I download and save on an external drive is a TV series taking up 127 GB - and I will never finish watching it - and it was easy enough to find and download because it is NOT something rare... Then when I delete that, it makes room for many more things that might be rare and hard to find. So I readily sacrificed Seasons 3 & 4 of "Knight Rider" unwatched while 1&2 will disappear episode by episode as I fall asleep to them. The Hoff is the MAN, but I accept the law of diminishing returns for some old TV.