The Wall

The Wall

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 8, 1962

Runtime

0h 9m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Wall

Production Companies

U.S. Information Agency, Hearst Metrotone News

Director

Walter de Hoog

Description

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.