Busch singt – Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (1982)
Genre : TV Movie, Documentary, Music
Runtime : 5H 25M
Director : Reiner Bredemeyer, Erwin Burkert, Ludwig Hoffmann, Peter Voigt, Konrad Wolf
Synopsis
"Busch singt" consists of 6 films "About the first part of our century" and does not present Ernst Busch only as a singer but is a film with and about Busch as a chronicler and fighter for communist ideals of his time. Konrad Wolf died during the production, he directed part 3 "1935 oder Das Faß der Pandora" and part 5 "Ein Toter auf Urlaub".
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