Berlin Wall c. 1961, 1961.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Gass, Karl, director.

Forest, Jean Kurt, Music.

Schnitzler, Karl-Eduard von, Script.

Hemmerling, Christel, Editor.

Wueste, Werner, Assistant Director.

DEFA, production company.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Global tensions & the Cold War

Wars & Revolutions

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (video file 1:19:06) : Sound, Black and White.

Place of Publication:

c. 1961,

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital.

Summary:

Feature-length documentary which takes a look at the events of the immediate postwar period, and compares life on both sides of the Berlin Wall. The western part of the city is shown to be Americanised and immoral with high crime and suicide rates, and clubs for vengeful former Nazis. Against a background of newsreel footage from the Second World War, its aftermath and the partition of Berlin, East Germany is shown to be a morally superior land of industrialisation and voluntary rubble clearers, where a wall had been built to defend against fascist forces in West Germany. Archive shots include the funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the visits of Willy Brandt and Bobby Kennedy to the Berlin Wall, and the Soviet liberation of concentration camps.

Credits:

Contributors: Forest, Jean Kurt; Schnitzler, Karl-Eduard von; Hemmerling, Christel; Wueste, Werner.

Production Company: DEFA.

Notes:

Archive Reference: N-507156.

Description based on online resource (viewed on 17 October, 2017).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.