UFA-Dabei 648/1968 23.12.1968

Year in review violence 1968 still photographs: protesters wear cross. Tanks in Prague. Policeman and protester. Negro with a rifle. Title: Violence: 2 clenched fists. Four aspects in the year of human rights.

01 CSSR crisis: from freedom of turret of Panzer turns, big. Soviet troops marched in the CSSR. Tank. Transformer DUBCEK. Close-up of Dubcek, laughing, seriously. Tanks drive people out. Tanks in Prague. Teenagers threaten against tanks. Old woman with arms raised before tanks, State copying. Soviet soldier with a drawn pistol, State copying. Young people with flags. Wounded on stretchers. Blood-soaked flag. Fires. Flowers are laid down at Memorial road. Brezhnev and Kossygind smacking, half-close. Integrating dance, Gomulka dances, Kádár takes kid on the arm. Ulbricht takes kid on the arm, Gomulka and children. Kosygin and Brezhnev welcome people. Brother Kiss Gomulka breaks to.

02. Biafra: What is man worth?
Photo: Verhungertes Negro child. Protesters with a cross at the March. Posters genocide. Photos: Starved children from Biafra. Negro with a rifle. Negro with a cross. Negro put on white gloves. Black Prince with pomp and ceremony at moving. Black Prince with cylinders side by side. Black Prince with Crown, great. Negro at gala reception. Mounted Negro guard. Negro under canopy.

03. Viet Nam dropping bombs. Impacts. Vietnamese shooting with rifle. Face of young Vietnamese woman. Vietnamese woman lying on a stretcher. Wounded Vietnamese. Captured U.S. pilots carried handcuffs by place. Vietnamese prisoners. Photos of interrogations. Crying faces. Children. Fight images. Soldiers carry tote. Johnson award by soldiers. Stand copying religious ceremony. Johnson on arrival before aircraft with wounded. State copying.

04. attacks on Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Rudi Dutschke, balls against the progress of Robert Kennedy with Brandt. Robert Kennedy when he was. Robert Kennedy in addition to Adenauer. Close-up of Robert Kennedy. Coffin is carried from the Church. People greet ride of the Sonderzuges on the edge. Race war devastation. Burned-out houses, driving record. Military patrol road. Close-up of Martin Luther King speaking. Protest run by students. Still photographs of Rudi Dutschke at demonstrations. Place of assassination against Dutschke in Berlin. Fallen to bike with Briefcase.

05. student demonstrations: in search of a future street fighting. Protesters and police. Police haul protesters off the road. Dirt-smeared face of a police officer. Fire at Springer. Drive over mountain from newspapers. Water cannon in use. In COP. Still photographs of the demonstrations. Protesters with cross before water cannon. Booth photo: Tanks in Prague. Negro infant at the breast of mother. Dead man on the stretcher. Weeping Vietnamese, racial struggle, United States. Lies dead on the road (294 m)

Year in review "What is man worth?" Violence 1968 wars in Nigeria and Viet Nam invasion of the Soviets in Czechoslovakia balls to Kennedy, King and Dutschke terrorist of leftist group

They came at night and behaved like guests who know No more, who has invited them: 650,000 soldiers from the Soviet Union, from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and the GDR – an arms abuse militants rape a people which had followed the path to democratic socialism. The CSSR Alexander Dubcek fell apart. "This is the tragedy of my life for me," confessed the uncompromising reformer. The development threatens to refer him to a representative office.
The citizens of Czechoslovakia again contact the tanks with empty fists. Their resistance with intellectual resources became the impressive demonstration against violence as a means of politics. You can't believe that violence is to incapacitate a people again. Her Pochemu, why are you here? -is the challenge of the invaders to think at the same time. But they know no arguments, but only commands, they don't understand what they are doing and often don't even know where they are so painful for the citizens of Prague, that their country, which they sing their anthem full of devotion, is forced to bend this power -.
A Czech writer "a dream from which we never To want wake up" called their departure into freedom. However, a Slovak proverb says: "A true enemy never leaves you."
Genocide - or how to call it otherwise if hourly 250 deaths in a civil war of hunger. Scenes of deadly violence that Hanson speak of human dignity and the value of the individual in question.
Biafra in 1968 - this is a proof for the functional inability of the world's conscience and his organization. Donations and protest are not enough for a people, the peace needs to survive. For the UN it is an "internal problem Nigeria" - and the brother peoples of Africa have to do in order not to miss the connection to the civilization.
More bombs dropped on North Vietnam as in the second world war on Europe. The bombs stop came after 3 1/2 years late. America threatened to squander, his confidence in his own his prestige in the world. Power to lose. Demoralized in a war without borders the GI's fight against a little besiegbaren enemy and world opinion, not having the law on their side.
"I will be the 1st President of the United States, who loses a war" - Johnson said. History will judge about a war in which there are no heroes, but only victim.
Attacks. Balls against the port step, another aspect of violence 1968 Robert Kennedy, whose Weg in the White House seemed predetermined, it understood, to maintain the faith of the young generation in a better America. Yevtushenko recited "with him, America" - so - "did you kill your honor."
The torn nation mourned for one of the most compelling advocate of racial equality and non-violence - a victim of the violence, which he opposed. Also: Martin Luther King. He gave hope to free them from the ghetto of social Declassing the 20 million colored Americans. Martin Luther King, Jr. left his dream that one day the sons of slaves and the slave holder peacefully on a table, sit the white and colored guides of America's legacy.
"On our side anyway, the violence does not begin." A saying of Rudi Dutschkes, the chief ideologist of a revolutionary minority in the Federal Republic, a statement before those shots that put him down, radicalized the opinion battle. Actions of violence accompanied from now on "the search for a future". Where always in 1968 in Germany State violence and blatant violence clashed, created scenes that make it clear how difficult it is to distinguish between comfortable protest and illigalem terror. Brutality is not a proportionate means - neither against nor for the anarchist Tendenezen of radical groups. And the approximately 2,000 criminal cases against protesters demand are not laws,... Time of the authoritarian State emerged. But as long as still protest against the opinion monopoly of a group, for example, by means of opinion terror occurs, the students have found Not yet the way to enforce the necessary reforms in Government and society.
Violence 68 - forms of confrontation, which seem to contradict the spirit of enlightened 20th century. 20 years after - which formulated the United Nations their faith in the dignity and worth of the human person, human rights are a cynical commentary on the reality of the year 1968.
Every person has the right to freedom of expression.
The will of the people is the basis for the authority of Government.
Mother and child are entitled to special help and support.
Every person has the right to life, liberty and security of the person.
All people are free and equal would born rights; they are endowed with reason and to meet each other in a spirit of brotherhood.

Date of Release:

23.12.1968

Year of Production:

1968

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German