Elisabeth Wilms
Biography
Elisabeth Wilms was a German film enthusiast and baker. She produced more than 200 films with her 16 mm camera. Her first feature films was "Der Weihnachtsbäcker" and "Münsterland - Heimatland" in 1941 on Agfacolor. Elisabeth Wilms got a street in Anselm named after her.
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Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Elisabeth Wilms(1905-1981), the baker's wife from Dortmund-Asseln, made more than 150 films from the early 1940s until her death in August 1981. She not only recorded the everyday life of her immediate surroundings, but also life in the bomb-destroyed city of Dortmund and the later reconstruction after 1945 with the camera and thus captured it for posterity. But there are also industrial, commercial and travel films as well as reports in her work.