The Condemned Village (1952)
- Original title
- Das verurteilte Dorf
- Directed by
- Martin Hellberg
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country
- German Democratic Republic, Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man comes back from a Soviet POW camp to his village in West Germany. He organizes the villagers to stop the American military from tearing down their homes to build an airfield.
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What happens
The Condemned Village (German: Das verurteilte Dorf) is a 1952 East German propaganda film directed by Martin Hellberg.The film is about a man who returns from a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp to his home village in occupied West Germany and leads a resistance to the American military's plans to demolish the village to build an airfield. The film was commissioned to build East German opposition to the United States and support for the Soviet Union during the early Cold War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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