"Brot und Spiele" (Pfingsttreffen der FDJ) ("Bread and circuses" (Whitsun meeting of Youth))

Info

May 1989
Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Duration: 05:49 min.
Created By: Cornelia Klauß

License: Not Creative Commons

From the Set

From the Set

A short film by Cornelia Klauß, shot in May 1989 at the FDJ (Free German Youth) Whitsun meeting. The sequences were edited in 2009 in cooperation with the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.

"Tens of thousands of delegated members came to the Whitsun meetings of the FDJ that were held every five years in a designated city, the last taking place on Whitsun 1989 in East Berlin." (retrieved and translated from Wikipedia on Mai 1, 2009)

Depicts

age, art event, bicycle, concert, everyday culture, flag of the GDR, flower, group of people, logo, member of the People's Police, military vehicle, musical instrument, musician, soldier, Whitsun Meeting of Youth (GDR)

People/Organizations

Free German Youth, Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Places

Alexanderplatz, Berlin Cathedral

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