The Altar of Pergamon
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Altar of Pergamon |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 13 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Legler |
| script | Erich Legler |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Peter Fischer |
| camera |
Georg Kilian Ernst Oeltze Rudolf Vogel |
| cut | Manfred Porsche |
| occupation | |
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The Altar of Pergamon is a documentary film of the DEFA studios for popular science films of Erich Legler from the year 1960 .
action
In October 1959, the reconstructed Pergamon Altar in the Berlin Pergamon Museum on Museum Island is presented to the visitors with a festive event. It is emphasized several times that the Soviet winners are the saviors and custodians of this work of art and have returned it safely. It is not mentioned that the altar parts were stored in a bunker at the Berlin Zoo at the end of the war and were then brought to the Soviet Union as looted art .
The film shows how artists, scientists and workers raise the altar again in such an arrangement that it is almost beyond the museum. While the complex reconstruction is shown in its diversity and detail, the narrator can explain the individual segments. In this way we learn more about the history of the creation and the meaning of the altar.
Production and publication
The start date of the black and white film shot under the working title Pergamon Frieze in GDR cinemas was August 12, 1960.