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De Berg (1982)

Name: De Berg
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-09-18T11:55:52+02:00
Rating: 3.92
Cast: Nel Visch, Gerard Maas, Piet Laros

Documentary | 108 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 108 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Gerrard Verhage

Stars: Nel Visch, Gerard Maas, Piet Laros

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De Berg plot

In De Berg, filmmaker Gerrard Verhage questions five (former) communists about the role their political convictions played in their lives. This confrontation of ideals with reality produces a wide range of emotions. Nel Visch left for the Soviet Union in 1922 to help build the country. Zaankanter Gerard Maas was in the resistance during the war. Piet Laros fought in Spain on the side of the International Brigades. Ex-concentration camp inmate Henk Gortzak did not immediately return home in 1945, but stayed in Potsdam to help build 'the party' in the Soviet zone of Germany - something his wife Jans still resents. With the camera crew, four of them (Nel Visch refused to go) visit the empty spaces of the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, where the CPN had its headquarters for many years and the daily newspaper De Waarheid was printed.