Vintage East German 1960's ORWO Film Commercial

A vintage East German commercial from the 1960s for ORWO film from VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen. Just gotta love the snippet of the Interflug IL-14!

This commercial became the inspiration for a commercial/demo reel for Sublevel 3 Media Works, which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfLmd9cEsNM

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• East
• Germany
• DDR
• vintage
• commercial
• camera
• film
• Europe
• 1960
• 60s

[bradjl2009]

It's pretty sad that on GDR tv in the 1960's there wasn't a problem with a woman showing her breasts on tv, but in the USA in 2008 you get fined if it isn't blurred. Pretty damn sad!

[sl3media]

Yep. Gotta love Taliban America. But hey, we're #1, right?

[larbo4200]

i love the background music where can i find it

[sl3media]

I have no idea what the music is. It is the original audio for the commercial. I've heard it used in other DDR era commercials, but don't know what it is called.

[02009823]

Is this really a East Germany film? It looks like from the West.

[sl3media]

Uhh...yeah. It really is East German. ORWO was the "company" set up from the portions of Agfa that fell in the east. VEB is the German abbreviation of "Volkseigener Betrieb" (People's Owned Company) which was applied to nearly all business concerns in the DDR.

The Interflug IL-18 is also a dead giveaway as well, since Interflug was the DDR state-run airline.

[longcatislong193]

East Germany was basically the First World part of the Eastern Bloc. Of course, it was far from a complete paradise thanks to political repression and restricted movement to and from the West, but compared to other places, it was pretty well off.

[ChongLi99]

GREAT DDR!

[ponomariev]

Viva East Germany!

[ponomariev]

I was in GDR in 1979 and sadly it was repressive espescially compared to West Berlin.Stasi were modern day Nazis.

[j2taranto]

I think it was only 14 people on average per month that left the DDR for West Berlin, it wasn't exactly mass exodus, not 14 people leaving, 14 attempts.

[kimtiu]

Because a dictatorship is a dictatorship. Most people didn't like it, anyway. But the GDR government are relatively well-skilled in keeping people happy, right? Till China decided to step in.

[spaceman1979]

Hey fitting commercial, It's not like there was a shortage of cameras in the GDR is it?

[Petrikau]

Than why so many people from GDR wanted to escape to West Berlin or die trying? And why German goverment has to spend billions of euro every year to help ex-GDR regions?

[lioii]

It's not an Il-18 but an IL-14, in fact it's DM-SAZ, the first VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden licence built Ilyushin IL-14! As far as I'm aware the aircraft still exists today.

[revolution1917oct]

So-so,wenn man heute über die DDR was hört,dann nur negatives!Man hält nur STASI und SED-Diktatur für die Wahrheit. Das leben da war gar nicht so schlecht und in vielen Bereichen besser als im Westen!