DEFA Film Library

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DEFA Film Library

Company type	Nonprofit organization
Founded	Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. (September 23, 1993 (1993-09-23))
Founder	Barton Byg
Headquarters	Amherst, Massachusetts , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Website	www.umass.edu/defa

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.