Diary of a German Woman

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1969

Documentary

1 hour 51 minutes

Summary

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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Original NameDu bist Min – Ein deutsches Tagebuch (Diary of a German Woman)

StatusReleased: 55 years ago
September 3, 1969

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