Cast & Crew
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Walter de Hoog
Writer
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Walter de Hoog
Director
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Vincent Apollo
Editor
Movie Details
Theatrical Release:November 8th, 1962
Original Language:English
Production Companies:U.S. Information Agency, Hearst Metrotone News
The Wall (1962)
Audience Score
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly balanced narration portrays Berliners as "accepting the wall but never resigned to it". The extraordinary footage of the first escapes was propaganda enough-- His challenge was to make the politics human.
