Writing
Documentary film by Wolfgang Bartsch.
Women workers in East Germany.
"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropolis of East Berlin. As an emphatically lively, often anthemically condensed revue, the film tells of the "growth and development of our new capital". Accompanied by cheerful music, the camera indulges in high-altitude views, shows squares whose fountains, benches and green spaces are designed to make you forget that you are in a big city, as well as visitors from all over the world in top hotels. An emphatically cheerful, yet meaningful insight into the brave new GDR world.
This is Oslo Kinematografer's Christmas greeting from 1951, where a family invites the audience to sing Christmas songs with them.
A historical GDR review of the events of the November Revolution in Germany in 1918.
