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.