The Birth of a Nation

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Overview

The film depicts, in an anecdotal, quasi-anthropological style, the efforts of a group of men in a desert to achieve some kind of social organisation. An opening title locates the action in Morocco, in 1911, the date evidently refers to the work of D.W. Griffith.

Cast: Klaus Wyborny, Nick Busch, Angelika Düsing, Peter Flak, Hannes Hatje, more

Director: Klaus Wyborny

Genres: Drama

Cast

Klaus Wyborny

Narrator

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Christoph Hemmerling

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