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Der Auftrag

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Producing House

This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to make black painted clay heads of Karl Marx in the spring of 1973. Engelmann briefly explains the individual work steps from mixing the casting slip to firing the clay heads and then painting them. An old craft is vividly captured on camera and accompanied by original sou

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Status: Released

Released Date: 1988-09-29

Runtime: 4 mins

Director: Jochen Kraußer

Spoken language: Deutsch

Genres: Documentary

Original title: Der Auftrag

Production Companies: DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme

Production Countries: East Germany

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