Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working class, and from enemy of national-socialism to the first president of the German Democratic Republic.

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Main Cast: Harry Hindemith, Wilhelm Pieck, Walter Ulbricht

Director: Andrew Thorndike

Writers: Otto Winzer, Feodor Pappe, Fritz Erpenbeck, Walter Bartel, Andrew Thorndike

Editor: Ella Ensink

Cinematographers: Kurt Stanke, Walter Fehdmer, Harry Bremer, Erwin Anders, Götz Neumann, Erich Nitzschmann, Rudi Radünz

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