Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (1952)
1h 20m
Running Time
January 2, 1952Release Date
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (1952)
1h 20m
Running Time
January 2, 1952Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Wilhelm Pieck – Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (Wilhelm Pieck: the Life of Our President) is a 1952 East German documentary film directed by Andrew Thorndike about the life of GDR President Wilhelm Pieck. It opened on 2 January 1952 in the cinemas of East Germany and East Berlin. The film consists mainly of still images illustrating Pieck's life and related German history. There are only a few motion picture sequences, for example Lenin's funeral and the post-1945 period.