(Eine Sommerreise)

Content: Documentary with beautiful black-and-white CinemaScope shots, which combined impressive scenes from a trip to the Ukraine with historical reminiscences. The censors criticized the "too narrow and too intimate view" of the Soviet Union; they didn't like the fact that bells were ringing, that a chauffeur from the film crew or an elderly peasant couple recalled the horrors of war or that Nikolai Gogol and Yevgeny Yevtushenko were quoted - that was considered backward-looking. Without the knowledge of the filmmakers Karlheinz Mund and Christian Lehmann, the film was shortened and mutilated; the seventeen minutes that were allowed for a public screening are only the torso of a large draft.

Countries:

East Germany,

Germany

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

17 minutes

Year:

1969

Directors:

Karlheinz Mund

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Production companies:

DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme

Actors:

Crews:

Director

Writer

Writer

Director of Photography

Editor