Democratic Germany. (1950)

Documentary №48603, 7 parts
Production: CSDF (RCSDF)
Availability:Film hasn't been digitized
Director:M. Sadkovich
Camera operators:G. Bobrov, I. Bessarabov, P. Kasatkin, D. Kaspij, A. Listvin, A. Semin, E. Nichman, G. Yavorskij, A. Bajbus, Fadyunc
Other authors:L. Varlamov i Yu. Koroljkov (scenarij), D. Ovsyannikov (zv. ), A. Surkov, Yu. Levitan

Reel №1

1 hr

GDR. Rally on the square: stands Pieck.

City: Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin.

Views of cities, streets, individual buildings, tourist attractions, monuments, castles.

Restoration of the cities.

Clearance streets.

Traffic, pedestrians.

Life and everyday citizens.

Sea port city of Hamburg.

Jail.

Buchenwald concentration camp.

Organization of agriculture based on the former estates of the landlords.

Section of land.

2 hrs

GDR. Meeting returned from the Soviet Union on German POWs Silesian railway station in Berlin.

Production processes in the industry.

Meeting of the Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

Present: Pieck, O. Grotewohl, Walter Ulbricht.

Session of the National Congress.

Plants: "Zeiss", "Reese", etc.

Coal mining in the mines.

3 hrs

The Paris Peace Conference in 1946

Present: Vyshinsky, Chuikov.

Building "Pink Palace."

Traffic and pedestrians on the streets of Paris.

West Berlin: U.S. soldiers patrol the unemployed, street trade, life and everyday citizens.

West Germany (FRG): Cologne, factories and mines of the Ruhr, the movement parts of the British Army on the streets of a town.

4 hrs

GDR. Sports festival at the stadium.

Construction and rehabilitation of buildings and industrial plants.

Theater, an art gallery in Berlin.

Production processes in agriculture.

Berlin.

Railway station.

Demonstration at Alexander Platz.

5 hrs

GDR. Berlin.

October 10, 1949: Meeting of the Soviet military administration and the government of the GDR. Present: Chuikov, O. Grotewohl, Dickman.

October 11, 1949

Presidential elections in the GDR. President Pieck gives oath.

Rally, demonstration.

Folk festivals, variety performances.

Torchlight procession.

6 hrs

GDR. Berlin.

Pieck takes diplomatic missions of the USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, China.

Production processes in industry, in agriculture.

Leipzig International Fair.

7 hrs

GDR. City of Jena.

Celebrating the anniversary of the University of Jena.

Berlin.

July 20, 1950

The Third Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

Present: O. Grotewohl, Pieck, Mikhail Suslov, G. Pollitt and others.

The congress delegates.

Key words

GDR: industry, agriculture, city, art, higher education, the SED, international connections.

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