Wilhelm Pieck – Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (1950)

Original title

Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten

Directed by

Andrew Thorndike

Genre

documentary film

Country

German Democratic Republic

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows the life of Wilhelm Pieck, the first president of East Germany. It uses mostly still photographs to tell his story and the history of Germany, with only a few moving film clips.

educationalhistoricalslow-pacedpatrioticnostalgicstaticinformativereverent

What happens

Wilhelm Pieck – Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (Wilhelm Pieck: the Life of Our President) is a 1952 East German documentary film directed by Andrew Thorndike about the life of GDR President Wilhelm Pieck. It opened on 2 January 1952 in the cinemas of East Germany and East Berlin. The film consists mainly of still images illustrating Pieck's life and related German history. There are only a few motion picture sequences, for example Lenin's funeral and the post-1945 period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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