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SummaryBetween the pictures of the celebrations celebrating with Santana and Rock'n Roll under the decorated fir tree, the melancholy and loneliness of the welders on the natural gas road become perceptible. Only men dance, while Klaus sits lonely at the guard post and imagines his children unpacking the Christmas presents. There's a lot of tears flowing - the hard men here call that linemacke. But hours later they welded the pipes for the Druschba natural gas pipeline. Six seams a day, even at minus 30° Celsius, to advance the 550 km that young experts from the GDR are to lay through the Ukraine from Kremenchug to Bar. Everyone knew that it wouldn't be an easy job, but when the news came by post from home that no money had arrived with the families for months, the craftsmen were not very happy about the FDJ's prestigious project. And then, unexpectedly, the impressive black-and-white images change into color photographs of house walls with the red star. These are houses from which a resident did not return from the war. An old woman complains about her three sons, but nevertheless greets the young men from Germany. It is not for nothing that the natural gas pipeline bears the name "Friendship". Kurt Tetzlaff also addresses this topic in "Begegnungen an der Trasse".
(Source: PROGRESS Film-Verleih)
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TagsNatural gas route; Workplace; Everyday life; Druzhba route; Ukraine; Gas pipeline; Natural gas pipeline; Collective; German Democratic Republic (GDR); Brigade; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); Volgast; Second World War; Second World War; 2nd World War;
