Arnold Zweig (documentary film, GDR 1962, excerpt)
Arnold Zweig (documentary film, GDR 1962, excerpt)
And I should leave Palestine, where I had wanted to build a new home, not as a dream, but as a reality, where we intended to create a classless society, a new home for the displaced. (ed. trans.)
Arnold Zweig in Arnold Zweig (1962)
Directed by Joop Huisken and with a screenplay by Renate Drescher, the documentary film Arnold Zweig was released in 1962. Viewers were presented with the most significant events in the life of the writer Arnold Zweig and his artistic oeuvre. The documentary explores Zweig’s experiences in the First World War as a Landsturmmann, a member of the reserve forces, and how he subsequently attempted to come to terms with what he experienced.
The camera accompanies the writer in his daily life and in his work at home in Berlin Niederschönhausen. The viewer is shown Zweig’s working method at this time, by which he was almost blind. He dictates to his secretary lines for his novel Traum ist teuer, in which he gives a literary treatment of his exile in Palestine. Zweig is also depicted performing his social activities in the GDR, among other things as a member of the Academy of Arts, as a deputy in the People's Chamber, as president of the PEN Centre and the German Peace Council.
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