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Johannes R. Becher, poet and revolutionary, was doubtless a man of the century. He experienced four historical epochs and was enmeshed in their vicissitudes - the Kaiserreich, the Weimar Republic, exile in Soviet Union and the founding days of the GDR. He was a traveller between the worlds - between the intellect and power, the arts and politics - a bourgeois intellectual who changed over to the camp of communism and paid his price for it. Becher's life is rich in contradictions, extraordinary and at once exemplary for all epochs. Becher was among the early expressionists and subordinated himself to the Communist Party at a time when this still meant real persecution and when he, as Minister of Culture of the GRD, was able to participate in their power. Becher was never a courageous man, rather anxious and always driven by the urge to play a big role. Both East and West had reduced him to a cliché - as the "Poet of Peace" or the "Traitor to the Freedom of Thought".

Germany - 2000 - 1 h 29 mn - Betacam SP - Colour and B&W

Réalisation Ullrich Kasten Scénario Ullrich Kasten, Jens-Fietje Dwars Image Wolfgang Lindig Son Gerd Jäckel, Jürgen Meinel Montage Alexander Görwitz Musique Jürgen Ecke

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