Living life in peace

Documentary focusing on the promotion of peace in the GDR. From young kindergartners to teenage youth groups and adult workers, the film charts the people's attempts to promote peace by singing, marching, running and signing petitions.Scenes include a farmer discussing the imbalance between international famine and the cost of missiles, and a factory worker explaining why socialist countries have nothing to gain from war. Also includes archive footage from the Second World War and the formation of the GDR. | Content warning: brief scenes of dead civilians and concentration camp internees.