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Free Land (1946)

Free Land poster
Original title
Freies Land
Directed by
Milo Harbich
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 17m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film shows how land reforms in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany affected people. It follows characters as they experience the changes brought by the new authorities.

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What happens

Free Land (German: Freies Land) is a 1946 German drama film directed by Milo Harbich and starring Ursula Voß, Fritz Wagner and Herbert Wilk. The film was a work of propaganda made by DEFA in the Soviet occupation zone which later became East Germany. It uses a neorealist style to portray the effects of land reforms brought in by the Soviet authorities. It proved to be very unsuccessful on its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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