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The Wall

The Wall

Status

Released

Release

1962

Runtime

9m

Storyline

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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
9m
Nov 8, 1962
Languages
EnglishGerman
Production Countries
United States of America

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