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- SummaryColour documentary film about the trip of Willi Stoph, Chairman of the GDR State Council, to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from 27th to 30th October 1976. Willi Stoph is received and accompanied by his host Salim Rubai Ali, Chairman of the Presidential Council of the VRJ and President of South Yemen, who was overthrown by Ali Nasir Muhammad in July 1978 and executed on 26.7.1978. The documentation concentrates on the gratitude of the population, based on the business facilities set up and supported by the GDR to improve the quality of life in Yemen.
- Shotlist0:00:00 Title insertion in High Arabic "People's Democratic Republic of Yemen - Encounters of Friendship". Nozzles of a passenger jet above the clouds (view from the window, close). Left wing with flaps (semi-close). Inside the plane sits a delegation of the GDR State Council under the leadership of Willi Stoph (half near). Right wing with inscription "DM-SEH" above the coast of Yemen (semi-total). Islands off Yemen (total). Willi Stoph with his wife and his closest collaborators (near and near). View from the airplane window to the Republic of Yemen (total). 0:01:06 Airport "Aden International Airport" from the outside (half total). Children with GDR flags are waiting for the guest (half total). Girl with big photos of Willi Stoph (half near). Transparent in front of the airport building with the inscription "The masses welcome the chairman of the state GDR, comrade Willi Stoph and his companion...". Airplane slowly rolls forward (half total). Representatives of the Government of Yemen await the guests (semi-close). The "Interflug" aircraft with the number "IL 62" stops (half total). Willi Stoph and his companion leave the machine via the gangway (semi-near). The welcoming committee and journalists welcome the guests from the GDR (half total). Flower garlands are presented (semi-close). Waving children with GDR flags (half near). The state guest is received on the red carpet with all military honours (half total and half near). Willi Stoph and his host Salim Rubai Ali (half total and half near) walk off the honorary formation. Stoph welcomes further leading representatives of the VdRJ (half near). GDR citizens who work in Yemen welcome Stoph and their children in FDJ clothing (half near). A troop parade in honour of Willi Stoph (half total). Cheering population groups and waving Stoph (half total). 0:03:30 Parade of cars from the airport to the capital through a trellis of cheering locals (driving shot from the car, half total). Stop at the Military Museum. Old cannon in front of the museum (half near). Museum from outside (half total). Willi Stoph is greeted in front of the museum entrance by the military (half near). Stoph waves to the crowd in front of the museum (half near). Various exhibits are presented to Stoph and provided with explanatory words (semi-near). Tour of the Military Museum (semi-near). Rifles, grenades and cluster bombs (near). Comment: "This museum offers a great opportunity to draw strength and optimism from the courage and steadfastness of the freedom fighters, writes Willi Stoph in the guest book, and at the same time brings a greeting from the People's Army of the GDR". Stoph and his wife at his guestbook entry (nah) and at the presentation of a gift to a general (Halbnah). 0:05:25 Commemoration of the memorial of the martyrs (half total) by the military (half near) and Willi Stoph (near with swivel). Stoph bends (near) to the monument with GDR wreath. Meeting of the Yemeni government representative with Stoph and his closest companions (half near). Press photographers at work (semi-close). Negotiations of both delegations in the conference room chaired by Salim Rubai Ali (half total, half close and close). 0:07:36 Stoph at the meeting with the secretary general of the united political organizations of the National Front Salim Rubai Ali (semi-near). Conversations with the Secretary General (near and near). Eating together the representatives of Yemen and the GDR (half near). Mrs. Stoph attends a kindergarten in Aden (half near). Children greet the guest with flags and hugs (close). Mrs. Stoph presents a Berlin cloth bear to the children (nah). Children doing skill exercises with Lego bricks and other wooden parts (near). Children dance to Yemeni music (half near). 0:09:46 Grain mill in Mala from the outside (half total), it was built with the help of the GDR. Locals wave Yemen flags (semi-near). Willi Stoph is greeted by a little girl who puts a garland of flowers on him (half near). Stoph takes a girl by the arm (nah). Hall with mills in operation (half total). Guided tour of the GDR delegation through the rooms of the Getreidemühle (half total). Workers at the mills (near) explain their work. Stoph and wife (close). Packaging line for flour by bag filling (semi-total). Worker clamps sack to machine and fills it (nah). Filled flour sacks leave the mill on a slide (half near) and workers load them onto a sack truck (half near), after that the flour sacks are stacked in the warehouse (half total). Swing over the flour sacks (near). 0:11:00 Mercedes state coach of the 600 class with GDR pennant drives up, accompanied by policemen on motorcycles (half total and swivel). Agricultural repair shop in Yes ´ar from outside, decorated with GDR and Yemen flag (total). Enthusiastic locals with little flags stand at the roadside (half total). Stoph and Salim Rubai Ali are greeted by girls with small flower arrangements and flags (half near). Hall with tractors and other agricultural equipment (semi-total). Repair work on a tractor engine (near). "Heckert" machines from the GDR (near). Worker at a lathe (near). Stoph greets worker at machine with handshake (half near). Workers and state guests talk to each other about an interpreter (half near). 0:12:21 Ships in the Gulf of Aden (half total). The GDR delegation and Salim Rubai Ali on a ship (half near) with fruits and drinks. Ship at full speed (view to the country) with GDR and Yemen flag (half total). Salim Rubai Ali explains Stoph the problems of the port and fishing (semi-near). Fishing boats are observed by Stoph (half near and half total). Comment: "...Ali expresses an important concern, which is also supported by the GDR. Our country strives to make the Arabian Peninsula in the Arabian Gulf an area of peace. We regard the realization of peace and security in the Indian Ocean as a step towards the realization of world peace and the consolidation of international détente and peaceful coexistence between the peoples of the world". Industrial plants on land (view from the sea, total). Fishing boats and large cargo ships on the sea (total). Stoph receives a gift on board (half near). Sunset over the Gulf of Aden (total). 0:13:43 Stoph, his wife and the GDR delegation at a performance in the National Theatre (near and near). Artists and artists at their performances (semi-close). Wizard animates Stoph to hold a cord (half near). Folkloristic dance of a group in national costume (half total). Spectators and GDR delegation in the hall (half near). Singing group at their performance (semi-close, pan and zoom) (original sound). Lecture by the mixed choir of the German workers' song "Brüder, zur Sonne, zur Freiheit..." (Brothers, to the sun, to freedom...) (Half near) (O-tone). Applause from the GDR delegation (near, backward zoom). 0:17:15 Stoph visits an exhibition of Yemeni artists on "political liberation" (semi-near with pan). Some exhibits of the "art of the people" (near). Locals on the street of a village dancing (half near) with GDR flags. Here was the revolutionary center of the VGRJ, the farmers of this village carried out on 7.10.1970 the 1st blow against the big landowners. Enthusiastic people run to the GDR delegation (half total). Stoph is presented with a flower arrangement (semi-close). Yemeni General Secretary Salim Rubai Ali addressed warm words to his compatriots (half total, half near and close) (original sound). Commentator translated: "...greet comrade Stoph who is visiting the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen for the first time...he is a statesman of a country we are friends with, a friend of the people and the party of our country. On this occasion I feel the need to express my joy at the good development of relations between our two countries and parties...". Speaker (near) (O-tone). Stoph and his interpreter (half near). Listeners and spectators (half total and close). 0:20:05 The crowd listens attentively to Stoph's explanations (half-total with pan). Stoph (nah) (O-tone) "...deeply impressed by the great cordiality and hospitality that they, dear Yemenite brothers and sisters, have shown us here in the town and throughout our stay in their country in many different ways...". Applause from the locals (half near). Stoph weiter (nah) (O-Ton) "...this is the expression and symbol of the sincere friendship between our peoples, which has its deep roots in the similarities of the anti-imperalistic struggle and in our common work for the social progress of the world....I am happy to invite you to visit me....which is known for its revolutionary traditions and from which many outstanding fighters for independence and social progress, against imperialism and foreign oppression have emerged, among them our esteemed host, friend and comrade-in-arms, comrade Salim Rubai Ali ...". Applause from those present (half total). Willi Stoph presents the host with a woven tapestry with the heads of Marx, Engels and Lenin (half near). Pan over the gossiping locals (total). 0:21:55 Flagpoles with GDR and Yemen flag (view from below). Stoph and delegation at the airport Aden (half near). Mercedes state car continues in the background (half total). Stoph says goodbye to representatives from Yemen by handshake (half near). FDJ Group greets farewell (semi-close). The parents and children from the GDR give applause (half near). Stoph bows on the red carpet before the Yemenite flag (half near). Walking off the honor formation (semi-near). Stoph and his host Salim Rubai Ali take the message of an officer on a podium (half near). Panning over the citizens and the honorary formation to the gangway (view from above, half total). Embrace between the Yemeni host Salim Rubai Ali and Stoph (nah). 0:23:15 end
- TagsYemen; Development aid; Friendship; Culture; German Democratic Republic (GDR); Large landed property; State visit; Free German Youth (FDJ); Museum; Military; Agriculture; Freedom struggle; Aden; Fishery; Cereals; Cereals;
- Decade1980
- Production Year1980
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- Country of Production
- Actors
- PersonalitiesSalim Rubai Ali, Willi Stoph
- DirectorRolf Hempel
- Producer
- Camera
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A003VOB