Basic Issues of Man: Final Thaw

Duration: 33

Year Published: 1963

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Dramatizes a situation in which four persons, faced with possible death, reexamine their personal philosophies. An intellectual whose god is pure reason begins to realize his basic loneliness. An American businessman who must rely on cold organization reveals himself as warmly human. His wife turns from agreement with the intellectual's original view to agreement with her husband's new attitude. A German guide, a former Nazi who has lost the collective, totalitarian world he understands, leaves apparently to seek death in the mountains.

Metadata Source:University of Georgia Brown Media Archives

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Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, University of Georgia Walter J Brown Media Archives and Peabody Collection

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