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I Was a Happy Person
I Was a Happy Person

I WAS A HAPPY PERSON

Ich war ein glücklicher Mensch

Directed by Eduard Schreiber
East Germany, 1990
Documentary

Synopsis

An attempt to understand what made the almost eighty-year-old Tilbert Eckertz hold on to communism. Eckertz worked as a business journalist in the GDR. Raked over the coals as a dissenter again and again he still calls himself a happy person.

Synopsis

An attempt to understand what made the almost eighty-year-old Tilbert Eckertz hold on to communism. Eckertz worked as a business journalist in the GDR. Raked over the coals as a dissenter again and again he still calls himself a happy person.