Mich dürstet (1956)

Directed by

Karl Paryla

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

German Democratic Republic, Germany

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This drama from East Germany follows people caught up in the Spanish Civil War. It shows their struggles and the difficult choices they face.

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What happens

Mich dürstet is an East German film. The film was directed by Austrian socialist filmmaker Karl Paryla for the state-owned DEFA film studio. It was released in 1956. The film was based on a 1946 short story by Walter Gorrisch, "Um Spaniens Freiheit" (a story about the Spanish Civil War); Gorrisch also wrote the screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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