The Road to the Wall

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Movie
Original title The Road to the Wall
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1962
length 33 minutes
Rod
script Don Mankiewicz
production Robert Saudek
music Lud Glaskin
cut Ray Sandiford ,
Robert Matthews
occupation

The Road to the Wall is an American documentary - short film from 1962, that of Robert Saudek was produced. Saudek was nominated for an Oscar with the film .

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The film opens with an endless crowd moving on different streets, some of them walking, some driving, others marching or riding, some are barefoot. Still others are so small that they have to be carried to get on the road. Some are so old that they need help moving around. Thousands of them take this path voluntarily, many of them hope that their path will lead them to where they are better and where there is peace. Some openly protest against the conditions in their country, a country that drove them to flee. Many will die on the way.

Cuba is discussed in 1959 when Cuban revolutionaries overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista and founded a socialist state. Then the film turns to the German philosopher and critic of bourgeois society, Karl Marx , who claimed that only through a system he calls communism can workers and peasants avoid hunger and exploitation. Marx wrote that one could only achieve this goal by violently overthrowing the rulers. The question arises as to whether these ideas are more of a one-way street.

Construction of the wall, erection of concrete blocks, 1961

Then the building of the wall, which began on August 13, 1961 , through the divided Berlin and the first refugee Günter Litfin , who killed the border guards of the GDR with targeted shots after the construction of the Berlin Wall, are discussed. From Berlin one returns to Havana in the 1959s, where after the victory of the revolution people were promised to improve their social situation. Then change the images to Budapest , in 1956 the starting point of the against the Soviet Union directed the popular uprising was, which was bloodily suppressed what many purges throughout the country moved to it. Then the uprisings, assassinations and revolutions in the former military and government city of Saint Petersburg , which was renamed Leningrad after the death of the Russian communist politician and revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , come up.

Protesters on St. Petersburg Bloody Sunday

The film then skips to the Russian Revolution of 1905 in the Russian Empire and the so-called Petersburg Bloody Sunday , on which around 150,000 workers marched peacefully and unarmed to the Winter Palace to hand over a petition to Tsar Nicholas II in order to emphasize their demands for human rights . The speech also comes to the Russian itinerant preacher Rasputin , who was friends with the Tsar's family and who also gained influence in the last years of the Russian Empire. The Russian revolutionary and communist politician Leon Trotsky , a key organizer of the October Revolution of 1917, was also mentioned. It was Trotsky who brought the Bolsheviks to power under Lenin's leadership. After Lenin's death in 1924, Josef Stalin increasingly disempowered him, and in 1929 he was forced into exile in Mexico, where he was murdered in 1940.

The pictures go to Germany, where Adolf Hitler took power and invaded Poland in 1939 , the beginning of the Second World War . The entry of the German army into France is also shown. The next discussion is the uprising of June 17, 1953 , which was violently suppressed by the Soviet Army. Then one turns back to Cuba and Che Guevara , the central leader of the rebel army of the Cuban Revolution , who was the most important symbolic figure alongside Fidel Castro . The language also comes from Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev , who sought the global leadership role of the USSR through armament and was involved in the Cuba crisis of 1962. A final point is the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953 .

The film ends with Thomas Jefferson's words: "At the altar of God I swore eternal enmity in every form of tyranny over men."

Production notes

Produced The Road to the Wall by the CBS Films Inc. Production , was introduced to the film from the United States Army , Department of Information and training of the armed forces, the James Cagney won as a spokesman for the accompanying comments. Judith Pearlman researched the footage.

Award

Academy Awards 1963

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 35th Academy Awards | 1963 see oscars.org (English)