This 1960s Soviet travelogue about East Germany takes a look at some of the main cities in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), including Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Weimar, Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), and Rostock. The film mostly focuses on industrial and development progress in the GDR, with visits to different industrial plants, mines, and power stations around the country. There is only limited footage of the actual cities, with Berlin and Weimar being most featured.
0:15 “German Democratic Republic”, 0:20 Film for Grade 9, 0:22 people on Alexanderplatz, 0:38 monument to fallen Soviet Soldiers in Treptower Park, 1:06 aerial overview of Frankfurter Tor and Stalinallee, 1:33 street footage from East Berlin, 1:48 the Brandenburg Gate with cars driving through it, 2:03 aerial overview of a highway and quick footage of trains and aircraft, 2:36 the VEB Milchhof dairy factory from the outside and inside, 2:52 women assembling electronics, 3:29 street footage from Magdeburg, 3:33 a large industrial plant producing mining tools and trains, 4:05 Magdeburg steel factory, 4:26 scenic shots of the old city contrasted with a chemical and coal mining complex in Leipzig, 5:15 a carpet and textiles factory, 5:27 Trabant cars rolling off the production line, 5:40 different books printed in the GDR, 5:47 a book being printed at a workshop, 6:08 footage from the Leipzig International Fair, 6:30 Zeiss Optical products and their production, 6:54 pharmaceutical products being produced, 7:07 scenic shots from the old city of Weimar including the statues of Goethe and Schiller, 8:17 a chemical plant for potash, 9:02 farmers harvesting potatoes and wheat at an industrial scale, 9:25 different farm animals, 9:46 mechanized egg farm, 10:36 aerial overview of Dresden, 11:11 close up of artwork, 11:28 footage from the streets of Dresden, 11:35 students at the Dresden Technical University, 11:55 the center of Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), 12:06 machines doing metal work, 12:22 women working in a textile factory, 12:39 porcelain being made and hand painted at the Meissen Porcelain Factory, 13:46 a brown coal mine and newly built Boxberg Power Plant, 14:26 the Schwarze Pumpe Coal power station, which was located on the site of the current Schwarze Pumpe power station in the “Schwarze Pumpe” (Black Pump) district in Spremberg 14:45 steel workers in a large factory, 15:00 people rowing on a river in Schwedt, 15:07 the Druzhba pipeline, aka Friendship Pipeline and the Comecon Pipeline, one of the world’s longest oil pipelines and one of the largest oil pipeline networks in the world.15:25 Nuclear Power Plant Greifswald, also known as Lubmin nuclear power station, which was the largest nuclear power station in East Germany before closure shortly after the German reunification. 15:38 aerial overview of Rostock, 16:01 ships being commissioned and sitting in Rostock harbor, 16:19 Lada cars arriving form the Soviet Union, 17:00 workers working on projects
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