Actor Walter Ulbricht

Walter Ulbricht

1893 - 1973
Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht (30 June 1893 – 1 August 1973) was a German communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later (after spending the years of Nazi rule in exile in France and the Soviet Union) in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic in East Germany. As the First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he was the chief decision-maker in East Germany. From President Wilhelm Pieck's death in 1960 on, he was also the East German head of state until his own death in 1973. As the firm leader of the strongest and most important Soviet satellite, Ulbricht had a degree of bargaining power with the Kremlin that he used effectively. For example he demanded the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 when the Kremlin was reluctant.

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Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten

Andrew Thorndike

Harry Hindemith, Wilhelm Pieck

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working class, and from enemy of national-socialism to the first president of the German Democratic Republic.

Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten

7.7 1952 Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
Германия, документальный

Tunnel der Freiheit

Marcus Vetter

Udo Rau, Claus Stürmer

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But on September 14, 1962, exactly one year, one month and one day after the Wall was built, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape spectacularly through a 135-meter tunnel to the West. For more than 4 months, students from West Berlin, including 2 Italians, dug this tunnel. When the tunnel builders ran out of money after only a few meters of digging, they came up with the idea of marketing the escape tunnel. They sell the film rights to the story exclusively to NBC, an American television station.

Tunnel to Freedom

7.7 ⚠️ 2021 Tunnel der Freiheit
Германия, документальный

State Funeral

Sergey Loznitsa

Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.

State Funeral

7.2 ⚠️ 2020 Прощание со Сталиным
Литва, документальный

DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953

Andrea Ritterbusch

Klaus Manchen, Hilmar Baumann

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has repeatedly struggled with domestic political problems. While the standard of living of the population in the western part of Germany steadily increased, it stagnated in the GDR . A one-sided, industry-oriented reconstruction policy, coupled with rapid militarization, weighed on the country's economy, which was already under pressure from Soviet reparations demands. A majority of the population did not identify with the socialist system, which accordingly stood on shaky ground.

DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953

1990 DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953
документальный

Baumeister des Sozialismus Walter Ulbricht

Ella Ensink, Theo Grandy

Walter Ulbricht, Johannes R. Becher

After the workers’ revolt on June 17th, 1953 this film disappeared in the archives until 1997.

Builder of socialism Walter Ulbricht

1953 Baumeister des Sozialismus Walter Ulbricht
Германия, документальный