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The Wall

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  • Documentary

Overview

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly balanced narration portrays Berliners as "accepting the wall but never resigned to it". The extraordinary footage of the first escapes was propaganda enough-- His challenge was to make the politics human.

Keywords

  • propaganda
  • cold war
  • germany
  • berlin
  • berlin wall
  • short film
  • berlin, germany

Details

Status
Released
Release date
November 8, 1962
Original language
English
Spoken languages
English, German
Countries
United States of America
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
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