Deutschland - Terminus Ost

Deutschland - Terminus Ost

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1965

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Deutschland - Terminus Ost

Production Companies

DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme

Director

Frans Buyens

Description

The Belgian documentarian Frans Buyens interviewed passers-by in East Berlin and Dresden, factory workers and technical draftswomen at the Warnow shipyard in Stralsund, small business owners in Chemnitz, LPG farmers in the countryside, foreign students at the Gottfried Herder Institute in Leipzig and industrial workers in Magdeburg and Eisenhuettenstadt. "The GDR seen through the eyes of a foreigner" was the original title of the film. A few years after the Wall was built, Buyens documented the approval, disapproval and fears of the interviewees.