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The Wall

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Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly balanced narration portrays Berliners as "accepting the wall but never resigned to it". The extraordinary footage of the first escapes was propaganda enough-- His challenge was to make the politics human.

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Language
English
  • berlin, germany
  • propaganda
  • berlin wall
  • cold war
  • short film

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical8 Nov 1962

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The Wall was released on 8 November 1962.

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