vw beetle documentary: kleiner wagen grosse liebe (4/7)

I admit: It takes some persistence to stay awake watching all 7 chapters of this 55 minute 'infomercial', which was shot in Germany in 1949. Even for the standards of those days the photographic quality is poor. The storyline is very thin and a bit staged. So it takes a real die-hard beetle lover to appreciate the film.

The first minutes of the film look like a wartime 'deutsche Wochenschau'. The powerful bombastic music amplifies that atmosphere.

The film was a collaboration between Esso and the Wolfsburg volkswagen plant. This was only 4 years after the war. Only few could affort to drive a car. Amazing is to see the early split window car playing a main role in the film: Kleiner Wagen, grosse Liebe. The pretty lady in this clip is Hilde Hildebrand. She was a well known german pre-war actress. She plays alongside less well known actors like Jakob tiedtke, Beppo Brem appear in this film.


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[hotgta]

Very economic car, i have one 1978, 1300cc... Whit 5 dollars it runs for a long time.