Underplayed Gems

Wilhelm Pieck – Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (1950)

Wilhelm Pieck – Das Leben unseres Präsidenten poster
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
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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.

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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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