The Wall

Year: 1962

Runtime: 9 mins

Language: English

Director: Walter de Hoog

Documentary

Compiled in 1962 by Walter de Hoog from U.S. and German newsreel footage, this taut short film chronicles the inaugural year of the Berlin Wall. Its straightforward, balanced narration portrays Berliners as “accepting the wall but never resigned to it,” while striking footage of the first escape attempts supplies the powerful human element behind the propaganda.

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