UFA-Dabei 713/1970 24.03.1970

1 Frankfurt: auto dial service between Germany and United States map with phone number by Ambassador Dr. Pauls. Minister liver on the phone. Adhesive hand, close, when dialing the number. Liver, talking on the phone. His hand thought listeners on the close. Liver, large, original sound speaks: "we have had 55,000 telephone calls per month in the past at the moment. If the type is simple, how now, telecommunications can expect that the connection is perceived in the future even more often and that it is not only a better phone connection in a symbolic sense but a relationship of bringing closer together the United States and the German Federal Republic in all matters." Telephone systems. Liver and others drink sparkling wine, great.

02. Cologne-Bonn: new airport car journey to Cologne-Bonn airport site with modern buildings. Driving scenes. Several settings of the new station building, inside: People on escalators with illuminated handrails. Pan across the lobby. Transition to the tarmac. Rolling on Lufthansa machine, half total. Random ride on buildings and swivel telescopic bridge and bridge, close. Telescopic bridge is being driven from the door of the aircraft. Pan across long-drawn bridge.

03. Erfurt: Encounter of Willy Brandt and Willy Stoph railway runs through landscape, right in the image of man with camera. Erfurt: Black flag is flown. Marching guard of the national people's army, total. Erfurt Hauptbahnhof (shield). Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, (Chief propagandist of the SED) big on platform. Stoph climbs stairs to the platform with accompaniment, large and close, in the profile. Waiting outside the station and cars. Crowds will be pushed back by police. Cops, big. Running a train. Willy Brandt gets out, walks towards Stoph, handshakes, half total, actuality are talking about press photographers surrounded: "I wish a pleasant stay." - "I thank you Very much for the welcome and also making sure that you got good weather." - "Because it should not be." Both leave, is entertaining, the platform stairs down continuously. Station portal with the crowd and journalists, several settings and hustle. Actuality of the lot: "Willy Brandt, Willy Brandt!" Police officers in the crowd. Quantity breaks through the police line. Waving and calling. Willy Brandt looks out the window of the hotel. Conference table in the hotel: pan of papers and glasses on Stoph, tall and smiling. Various settings of the session participants, including Brandt, great in the profile. Dr. Patrick interviewed passers-by in Erfurt, young girls, young man, older men, young girl, young woman, young man, o-ton: "What expectations you associate with the encounter of Willi Stoph and Willy Brandt?" - "Certainly not." - "at the first meeting I suppose that that is not too A lot going, but it's quite nice when first found together the two statesmen." - "well", that recognises the Federal Republic the DDR." - "no, I think it is not useful for, I think it is for the population to be useful that she just sees what are the opinions of the two parties, but I see no success and make no expectations because." - "well, I would say, it would be really Very much, when even a unity would be." - "not A lot, I don't think so, that A lot because what comes out. But, I believe you should the interpersonal relationships easier."-"What does that mean?"-"you know Yes, it is said often enough been."-"what concessions to make both sides?"-"You know, here are too many people." Series of blocking hats on the street, crowd behind it. Hotel entrance with crowd. When out Brandt's Hotel actuality spokesman choir "Recognition of DDR, DDR recognition!" Burgee of the FRG and the GDR on the Chaika limousine, big. Car number, close: IA 13-04. departure. Stoph resigns smiling from the hotel: spokesman choir actuality: "up, up, up Willi Stoph!" The hand shake Stoph various bystanders. Dr. Haese in interviews, o-ton: "You feel even more than citizens of the DDR or more than German?" - "As German citizens of the DDR." - "no, I feel not as a German." - "More than German." - "I feel as a German in that State alive." - "I am citizen of the GDR." - "as citizen of the GDR, I feel already, but it would be nice if we were a United Germany again."
Buchenwald: driving scenes of Brandt's car out to crowds on the sides of the street over to Buchenwald. Willy Brandt gets out of the car with two banged spruce. East German soldiers carry wreath. Willy Brandt follows with others. Press photographers and cameramen. Brandt's serious face between flowers and East German soldiers. Wreath loop, close, inscription: Willy Brandt. Brandt climbs the steps to the Buchenwald Memorial. Monument and fluttering flags. Brandt and Stoph in the midst of crowds on the way to the station. Portal bears the inscription: "The DDR is the German State of peace and socialism". Brandt and? the railway window, Stoph and photographers on the platform. Brandt, tall in the window with? laughing. Stoph looking up to him, great. Brandt raise your hand at downhill and actuality: "everything takes time - a good trip, Good bye." Berlin: people's Chamber: Stoph occurs, total and is integrating at the lectern, half total, behind him. Stoph speaks interview: "Let me first emphasise that the Council of Ministers considers the Erfurt meeting the GDR useful." Bonn: German Bundestag: Bundestag totale, head Auditorium. Brandt speaks half total and big o-ton: "... that a gradually mitigate of the consequences resulting from the Division of Germany, as is - possible!" "- also far from certain, that hold today when I at all offered skepticism rather possible than the day before yesterday."
Erfurt: on the next day driving by Erfurter Straße. Dr. Patrick interviewed students to the Brandt company, sound bites: "What do you think of Willy Brandt's visit?" - "Yes, so I think it's great." - "you have discussed in school?" - "will have discussed it the day before we were instructed." - "what do you mean an?" - "Yes, so were the relationships told us." I personally promise to have but Not much promised A lot of them as a result."-"you saw also Willy Brandt?"-"Yes, in the car, here on passing through Weimar, as he drove from the Buchenwald."-" and at "Erfurter Hof" hotel?"-" no, we have not seen him since. " We could not after the Erfurt, was locked down here, no tickets more over."-"And what have you discussed doing at school?"-"Yes, we should an essay To write."-"and what have you written?"-"Yes, that it recognized the GDR." Protesters in the rain on the street (for elections) with Stoph - Ulbricht posters and standard-bearer.

Telephone direct link to United States with Minister liver camera: Luppa opening airport Cologne-Bonn camera: Luppa, Rühe Erfurt: Willy Brandt and Willi Stoph encounter in Erfurt origin: Fox, looking typically world everyday life in the GDR origin: DEFA, DEFA at the beginning and end of total length

It-news - at the time through a direct-dial call with Ambassador of Paul's in Washington Transport Minister Leber in Frankfurt opened the Hahnenkamm Ferndienst between Germany and the United States notes. With a drastic fee reduction on the Federal Post Office, 6 marks per talk minute - wants to win new customers.
"We have had at the moment 55,000 telephone calls per month in the past, the simple way, how now, telecommunications may reckon that the connection is removed in the future even more often and that it is not only a better phone connection in a symbolic sense but a relationship of bringing closer together the United States and the German Federal Republic in all matters."
The capital of the Federal Republic has now found the connection to the Jet age. "From the car in the plane" - with this motto was dar expanded airport Cologne/Bonn, so far a better field aerodrome, to the most modern air station in Europe. The new reception building offers elegance and functionality. The attempt to reconcile hurried passengers with the aviation cost 300 million marks: the streamlined through dispatch operation is to lose, again preventing at the bottom. Adjustable telescopic bridges connect directly between aircraft and reception hall. Gangways and tarmac buses are passé. Not only State visitors enter future quickly and dry Bonne political ground.

This policy the Erfurt meeting a step to get closer after 25 years of separation. Erfurt, March 19, 1970. The National Guard coming people's army under the flag of the Federal Republic. The Chief propagandist of the SED, Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, is one of the few who may experience the moment of the first encounter. Then the correspondent of the German Federal Chancellor, Willi Stoph, Minister President of the GDR comes, 55 years, gaunt and with waking eyes. Outside the train station: an impatient, about 1000-strong crowd, shielded by State bodies and police. As so often opens a dialogue about the weather of the conversation.
"I wish you a very pleasant stay!" "Thank you Very much for the welcome and also making sure that you got good weather."
"It's should not be!"
A turning point for the many goodwill are - distrustful and suspicious observed by those who believe the time was stopped with them, and for the image of journalists the chance for a photo that goes around the world.
"Willy Brandt" is the amount that finally breaks through to see Willy Brandt, no army of revolutionaries and State traitors. Rather, the hope for better cooperation in Germany joins for them with the name Willy Brandt. "Willy Brandt at the window!"
On the Conference table in the "Erfurter Hof", the DDR makes a bunch of claims, which can only be understood as maximum claims, if the dialogue is to have a future. "It will be a long, long way" concluded Willy Brandt after this encounter. How do citizens in Erfurt and Weimer thought?
"What are your expectations link to the encounter of Willi Stoph and Willy Brandt?"
"None."
"At the first meeting, I suppose, that there aren't A lot will come out, but it's quite nice when first found together the two statesmen."
"Well, that the Federal Republic recognises the GDR."
"No, I do not think it useful, I think it is for the population to be useful that she just sees what are the opinions of the two parties, but I see no success and make no expectations because."
"Well, I would say, it would be really Very much glad if times were a unity."
"Not A lot, I don't think so, that A lot because what comes out. I believe, it should facilitate interpersonal relations but."
"What does that"mean"?"
"Yes, you know it has been said often enough already."
"WelcheZugeständnisse to make both sides?"
"Know, here are too many people."
It took only a short time to reject the vox populi behind the barriers. Delegations from companies and schools are grouped in front of the hotel but, practiced in the chanting of slogans we christened it "Cheering Germans" journalists.
"Recognition of East Germany" surprised by the two banged on the Chaika limousine, driving Willy Brandt to Buchenwald. His interlocutor a few friendly words addressed the speech choirs. It is cold that day, windy, and rainy.
"High, high, high, Willi Stoph."
But this strong acoustic backdrop is not enough to simulate a closed Socialist community. "You feel even more than citizens of the DDR or more than German?"
"As German citizens of the GDR."
"I feel me as a German."
"More than German."
"I feel as a German in that State alive."
"I am citizen of the GDR."
"As a citizen of the GDR, I feel already, but it would be nice if as a United Germany again."
The sympathies of the people on the streets will accompany Willy Brandt to Buchenwald. For the Chancellor, whose Vergangenheit allows him to commemorate, heads held high, murdered in a concentration camp, this moment is a strong human experience - in spite of the ceremony with full military honors.
Willi Stoph and Willy Brandt return to the station after 13 hours, everything is said, was to say it on this day. The concrete result: Goodbye on May 21 in Kassel.
"Is taking its time - good trip, Good bye."
With long lasting applause Prime Minister Stoph taught the people's Chamber in East Berlin. "Let me first emphasise that the Council of Ministers considers the Erfurt meeting the GDR useful."
Before the German Bundestag, Willy Brandt said: "... that a gradually mitigate of the consequences resulting from the Division of Germany, as is - possible!" "far from certain, that hold today when I at all offered skepticism rather possible than the day before yesterday."
On the day after in Erfurt: the event in the memory of some students: "What do you think of Willy Brandt's visit?"
"Yes, well, I think it's great."
"Did you discuss at school?"
We discussed it the day before we were assigned."
"What do you mean an?"
"Yes, so were the relationships told us." I personally promise, but Not much promised A lot of me as a result."
Have you seen also Willy Brandt?"
"Yes, in the car, here on passing through Weimar, as he drove from the Buchenwald."
"And the hotel"Erfurter Hof"not?"
"No, we have not seen him since." We could not after the Erfurt, was locked down here, no tickets more over there."
"And what have you discussed the school?"
"Yes, we should To write an essay."
"And what have you written?"
"Yes, that it recognized the GDR."
In the main streets, people who yesterday cheered for Willy Brandt or chanted slogans, come together again. Local elections are sin an demonstration train as often happens in the everyday life of the GDR.

Date of Release:

24.03.1970

Year of Production:

1970

Camera Work:

Luppa; Rühe, Bernd Michael

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

DEFA; Fox

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German