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
Network & Production Companies

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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Cast & Crew.

Harry Hindemith
Narrator (voice)

Wilhelm Pieck
Self (archive footage)

Walter Ulbricht
Self (archive footage)

Andrew Thorndike
Director / Screenplay

Otto Winzer
Writer

Fritz Erpenbeck
Writer

Feodor Pappe
Writer

Ella Ensink
Editor

Hanns Eisler
Music

Johannes R. Becher
Lyricist

Walter Bartel
Writer

Bertolt Brecht
Lyricist

Walter Fehdmer
Director of Photography

Kurt Stanke
Director of Photography

Erwin Anders
Director of Photography

Harry Bremer
Director of Photography

Götz Neumann
Director of Photography

Erich Nitzschmann
Director of Photography

Rudi Radünz
Director of Photography

Harry Kadoch
Camera Operator

Heinz Reusch
Sound

Günter Lambert
Sound

Wernfried Hübel
Music Editor

Günter Althaus
Production Manager
Details.
Wiki.
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.