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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.

Directed byWalter de Hoog

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 9m
Language
EN
Released
November 8, 1962
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U.S. Information AgencyHearst Metrotone News

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring
Alexander Scourby

Alexander Scourby

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Creative team
Directed by
Walter de Hoog
Written by
Walter de Hoog

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