New Life - New Building

Documentary charting the reconstruction of towns and cities in the post-war period. Focusses on industrialisation and socialist construction methods, the modular building system and how it supports citizens.

Credits

Das Ministerium fur Bauwesen und Die Deutsche Bauakademie (sponsoring body); Gerhard Jentsch (director); Rudolf Harnisch (writing); Gerhard Jentsch (writing); Peter Sattler (writing); Kurt Magritz (adviser); Gerhard Zeuchner (adviser); Hans-Jűrgen Kluge (adviser); Rolf Kuhl (music); Waltraud Hartmann (editor); Wolf Wulf (camera); Peter Sbrzesny (camera); Heinz Klűnder (production management)

Complete catalog record
Original source: Reproduction of: GDR (German Democratic Republic), c.1970-1980. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-508655. | Sponsored by Das Ministerium fur Bauwesen und Die Deutsche Bauakademie. | Contributors: Harnisch, Rudolf; Jentsch, Gerhard; Sattler, Peter; Magritz, Kurt; Zeuchner, Gerhard; Kluge, Hans-Jűrgen; Kuhl, Rolf; Hartmann, Waltraud; Wulf, Wolf; Sbrzesny, Peter; Klűnder, Heinz. | Production Company: DEFA.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:20:47) : sound, colour | polychrome
Subjects: Postwar reconstruction -- History -- 20th century | Industrialization -- Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century | Social conditions | Postwar reconstruction | Industrialization | Germany (East) -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Germany (East) | Architecture | Construction | Engineering | Factories | Factory workers | Housing | Industrialisation | Lifestyle | Living conditions | Manufacturing | Mass production | Mechanisation | Modernisation | Reconstruction | Social welfare | Socialism | Towns and cities | Urban development | Work and employment | Workers | German Democratic Republic (GDR) | Eisenhüttenstadt | Dresden | Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) | Berlin | Documentary | 1954-1975 | Post-1975 | 1900-1999 | Webcast

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Sources

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