Willi Bleicher was one of the best known and, according to at least one source, one of the most important and effective German trades union leaders of the post-war decades.
Bust of Bleicher
Naked Among Wolves is a 1963 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Erwin Geschonneck and Armin Mueller-Stahl. The film is based on author Bruno Apitz's 1958 novel by the same name. The
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…writer Bruno Apitz told the story of how a three-year-old boy was rescued by a group of fellow inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1963 a film of the book appeared, directed by Frank Beyer. It turned out that this was no mere work of fiction. Shortly after the film release it became known that one of the…
The premiere of Naked Among Wolves. Colosseum cinema, East Berlin, 10 April 1963.
Frank Beyer, actor Herbert Köfer (Kluttig) and Bruno Apitz on the set of the film.
Beyer speaks with Mark Donskoy before the screening of Naked Among Wolves in the Moscow Film Festival.
The Buchenwald Group, a bronze statue by Fritz Cremer in the Memorial Site of the former concentration camp.