Films: 1997
The Films of the Marshall Plan
On the 5th of June 1947, the then US Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced the European Recovery Program in an address at Harvard University: herewith he also started a film program as yet unparalleled in the media history. Some 200 documentary films were made during the years of European reconstruction within the frame of the Marshall Plan, highlighting the basic economic and social changes that the continent underwent in the post-war period. It is on these documentary films that our interest focuses: for they picture a Europe which only few of us can still imagine. And they document… 1997, BR / Arte / GMF, 60 min
