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Diary of a German Woman (1969) [N/A]

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Release Date:
September 3, 1969

Original Title:
Du bist Min – Ein deutsches Tagebuch

Genres:
Documentary

Production Companies:
DEFA

Production Countries:
East Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 111

Overview from TheMovieDB

The core of this most personal of the Thorndikes’ projects are Annelie’s diary entries: Her story is to be the starting point for a kind of all-German ‘Heimatfilm’ that praises the utopian power of the GDR and sharply condemns Federal German wrongs, but finds transcendent beauty on both sides of the wall. Over the course of production, however, the visionary dimension of the project was progressively trimmed down, though it’s still tangible everywhere in the compromised final version: The intensity of its pathos is both oppressive and enchanting; some historical simplifications and ideological twists and bends may be hair-raising, but they still achieve the desired effect.

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Production

Director:
Michael Englberger
Hans-Joachim Funk
Manfred Krause
Hans Joachim Manfred
Annelie Thorndike
Andrew Thorndike

Director of Photography:
Hermann Ihde
Christian Lehmann
Ernst Oeltze

Writer:
Annelie Thorndike

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