Living Life in Peace

Documentary focusing on the promotion of peace in the GDR. [WARNING: brief scenes of dead civilians and concentration camp internees.]. From young kindergartners to teenage youth groups and adult workers, the film charts the people's attempts to promote peace by singing, marching, running and signing petitions. Scenes include a farmer discussing the imbalance between international famine and the cost of missiles, and a factory worker explaining why socialist countries have nothing to gain from war. Also includes archive footage from the Second World War and the formation of the GDR.
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Leben - In Frieden Leben. English.
Original source: Reproduction of: Leben - In Frieden Leben GDR (German Democratic Republic), c. 1979. 16mm Comb col pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-507193. | Production Company: Camera DDR.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:38:41) : sound, colour | polychrome
Subjects: Peace movements -- Germany (East) | Cold War | Germany (East) | Peace | Peace movements | Music | Parades and marches | Children | Weapons | Education | Second World War (1939-1945) | Bomb damage | Death | Concentration camps | Holocaust | Memorials | Commemorations | Sculptures | Conferences | Workers | Factories | Factory workers | Nuclear weapons | Sports and games | Construction | Housing | Socialism | Agriculture and farming | Religion | Christianity | Tanks | Wars | Buchenwald | German Democratic Republic (GDR) | Hiroshima | Nagasaki | Japan | Germany | Langhoff, Wolfgang (1901-1966) | Pieck, Wilhelm (1876-1960) | Grotewohl, Otto (1894-1964) | Honecker, Erich (1912-1994) | Becher, Johannes R (1891-1958) | Documentary | Post-1975

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  2. Past and Present 1968
  3. Confessions 1976
  4. Living Life in Peace 1979
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