Company sleeping bag
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Company sleeping bag |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Maria Rabenalt |
| script | Kurt E. Walter |
| production |
Real-Film GmbH, Hamburg ( Walter Koppel ) |
| music | Bert reason |
| camera | Albert Benitz |
| cut | Margot von Schlieffen |
| occupation | |
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The company Schlafsack is a German feature film by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, set in World War II , starring Paul Klinger , Eva-Ingeborg Scholz and Karl-Heinz Böhm . The story is based on a novel by Hans Nogly .
action
Berlin 1944, the German Wehrmacht at all fronts on the retreat . As a result of an error in the Army Personnel Office, Captain Brack, who commands an assault gun battery , is entrusted with the management of a special command on a secret mission and can therefore not return to his unit on the hard-fought Eastern Front , where his people are gradually being crushed by the enemy. Brack quickly realizes that his new assignment must be a bureaucratically justified mistake, but he also knows: an order is an order, and nothing can be changed. The captain is now trying to make the best of his new assignment and at the same time not to sacrifice his own people to the senseless “heroic death” on the Soviet front. And so Brack, now equipped with an unusual authority, ordered the members of his front-line unit back to Berlin by telex without further ado, in order to be able to allegedly deploy them to a nebulous “Sonderkommando”.
So removed from the danger zone, Captain Brack now has to make sure that his people at home in Berlin don't stand around uselessly, otherwise they could attract attention from his superiors and the maneuver could be blown. Brack therefore pretends to be busy as part of a “sleeping bag company”, but he cannot get away with it for long, given the massive shortage of soldiers for the front line. A particularly ambitious junior officer who is loyal to the line discovers the dizziness and finally lets Brack blown. The consequences are dramatic: in the spring of 1945 the captain was tried by a court martial and sentenced to death . Before the sentence can be carried out, however, the war is over and the guns are silent.
Production notes
The film was made in the Hamburg-Wandsbek studio with exterior shots of Hamburg and the surrounding area. The sleeping bag company premiered on September 23, 1955 in Bochum and Karlsruhe. The (West) Berlin premiere took place on October 7, 1955.
Gyula Trebitsch was production manager, Heinz-Günter Sass was production manager. Herbert Kirchhoff and Albrecht Becker were responsible for the film construction, Trebitsch's wife Erna Sander designed the costumes. Erwin Lange designed the special effects. Günter Haase worked as a simple cameraman for Albert Benitz .
Awards
The FBL awarded the film the title valuable .
criticism
In the lexicon of the international film it says: “The Köpenickade of a German captain in the Second World War, who rescues the soldiers subordinate to him by means of a faked special order from the Eastern Front to Berlin. The film has an original story, is clean, even if it is staged a little too smoothly and successfully avoids the close proximity to the military fluctuation. "
Web links
- Companies sleeping bag in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Company sleeping bag at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 569
- ^ Company sleeping bag. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 1, 2019 .