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The GDR - A Land of Sports c.1970-1980, 1970-1980.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Sport & Leisure
- Culture & Society
- Standardized Title:
- Sportland DDR. English .
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Internet videos.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (video file 0:34:14) : Sound, Colour.
- Place of Publication:
- c.1970-1980,
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
- Summary:
- Feature on sport in the German Democratic Republic, with a focus on sport in schools and workers clubs. Opening with a disco and awards ceremony for former athletes, this documentary includes footage of former boxer, Wolfgang Behrendt, now a sports photographer and Marlies Göhr, a runner training as a child psychologist. Other topics include the joy of children training for the Spartakiad and the role of the coach as a father. Sports in schools is covered, as is exercise for the elderly and enterprise sports festivals for workers. Includes scenes of diving, cycling, fencing, wrestling, canoeing, bobsled and handball.
- Credits:
- Production Company: Camera DDR.
- Notes:
- Archive Reference: N-508502.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on 30 April, 2019).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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