Mich dürstet

{{short description|1956 film}}

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| director = Karl Paryla

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| starring = Edwin Marian

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| released = {{Film date|1956}}

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| country = East Germany

| language = German

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Mich dürstet is an East German film. The film was directed by Austrian socialist filmmaker Karl Paryla for the state-owned DEFA film studio.{{cite book|last1=Davidson|first1=John E.|last2=Hake|first2=Sabine|title=Framing the Fifties: Fifties Cinema in Divided Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n9BzXN976WMC&pg=PA221|accessdate=8 April 2013|year=2007|publisher=Berghahn|isbn=978-1-84545-204-9|page=221}} It was released in 1956. The film was based on a 1946 short story by Walter Gorrisch, "Um Spaniens Freiheit" (a story about the Spanish Civil War);{{cite book|last=Crusells|first=Magi|title=Las Brigadas Internacionales en la Pantalla|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSp9AHVmS7kC&pg=PA391|accessdate=8 April 2013|year=2001|publisher=Univ de Castilla La Mancha|isbn=978-84-8427-149-9|page=391}} Gorrisch also wrote the screenplay.{{cite book|last1=Asholt|first1=Wolfgang|last2=Schlünder|first2=Susanne|title=Der Spanische Bürgerkrieg in der DDR: Strategien intermedialer Erinnerungsbildung|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=30mmCinZ6WgC&pg=PA294|accessdate=8 April 2013|year=2009|publisher=Iberoamericana Editorial|isbn=978-3-86527-465-6|page=294}}