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Free Land (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Free Land' is a 1946 German drama film directed by Milo Harbich and starring Ursula Vo, Fritz Wagner and Herbert Wilk. The film was a work of propaganda made by DEFA in the Soviet occupation zone which later became East Germany. It uses a neorealist style to portray the effects of land reforms brought in by the Soviet authorities.Feinstein p. 27 It proved to be very unsuccessful on its release.Noack p. 256
Cast
* Ursula Vo as Frau Jeruscheit
* Fritz Wagner as Neubauer Jeruscheit
* Herbert Wilk as Brgermeister Siebold
* Hans Sternberg as Altbauer Strunk
* Aribert Grimmer as Altbauer Melzig
* Peter Marx as Altbauer Schulzke
* Oskar Hcker as Neubauer Kubinski
* Elfie Dugal as Kchenmdchen
* Kurt Mikulski as Siedler
* Karl Platen
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* Albert Arid
References
Bibliography
* Feinstein, Joshua. 'The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 19491989'. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
* Noack, Frank. 'Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker'. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
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