Stories of That Night
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Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
Status: Released
Released Date: 1967-06-07
Runtime: 109 mins
Director: Karl-Heinz Carpentier, Gerhard Klein, Ulrich Thein, Frank Vogel
Writer: Karl-Heinz Carpentier, Ulrich Thein, Erik Neutsch, Hartwig Strobel, Frank Vogel, Werner Bräunig, Gerhard Klein, Helmut Baierl
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Drama
Original title: Stories of That Night
Production Companies: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production Countries: Germany, East Germany
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