Movies: Walter Ulbricht
- 2019
State Funeral (2019)
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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....
- 2021
Tunnel to Freedom (2021)
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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 2...
- 2021
Stasi, un État contre son peuple (2021)
Stasi, un État contre son peuple4.82021HD
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and...
- 1953
Builder of socialism Walter Ulbricht (1953)
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After the workers’ revolt on June 17th, 1953 this film disappeared in the archives until 1997....
- 1990
DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953 (1990)
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"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 increas...
- 1952
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (1952)
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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....
- 1965
Schutzwall (1965)
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The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The necessity of erecting the border is illustrated by comparing the situation in 1939 and the situation in the summer of 1961 with regard to the "threat o...
- 1999
Die Sekretäre (1999)
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The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together, Ulbricht and Honecker determined the course of the GDR, of course without ever getting out of being a s...
- 1961
Der Schlag hat gesessen! (1961)
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Short film intended for the mobilization of NVA units to secure the state border in Berlin on 13 August 1961....