Movie Details
Theatrical Release:November 8th, 1962
Original Language:English
Production Companies:US Information Agency Hearst Metrotone News
Cast & Crew
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Walter de Hoog
Director
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Walter de Hoog
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Vincent Apollo
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The Wall (1962)
Audience Score
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 US 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