... so that it continues
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | ... so that it continues |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 31 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Cohn-Vossen |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| camera |
Christian Lehmann Hans-Eberhard Leupold |
| cut |
Charlotte Beck Inge Gulich Ursula Walter |
... so that it continues is a documentary film by the DEFA studio for documentaries by Richard Cohn-Vossen from 1970 .
action
The film begins with a look at today's Volgograd and children playing. A look back shows film footage from an airplane that flies over the city, which was then still called Stalingrad and shows the extent of the destruction by the German Wehrmacht . There are also pictures of German soldiers and officers on their way into Soviet captivity . Four Germans also went this way, who in this documentary interviewed questions about the fear of retaliation, the question of guilt and the gradual breakdown of an enemy image. But they also talk about the process of their rethinking, which only became possible through their meeting with the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD).
One of the first German prisoners of war was the bomb pilot Oberleutnant Eberhard Charisius , who was shot down on the very first day of the attack on the Soviet Union. Film recordings from a prisoner-of-war camp show how he was questioned by the Soviet writer Konstantin Fedin . In Stalingrad he was already one of the members of the NKFD who wanted to persuade German soldiers to surrender in the cauldron . Other participants in the discussion were the former NCOs Georg Günter and Paul Pflock and Captain Gerhard Dengler , who surrendered separately with his unit in Stalingrad in early 1943. The round was completed by Leni Berner , a communist, who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1935 and worked as a teacher in a front school for prisoners of war during the war.
Recordings of the destroyed Stalingrad and today's Volgograd as well as pictures of the men in their then and present surroundings complete the conversation.
Production and publication
The research was done by Anne Richter and Charlotte Galow.
... so that it goes on , was filmed in black and white by the artistic working group Profil , under the working title Conversion of the Vanquished and had its festive premiere on May 15, 1970 in the marble hall of the DSF Central House in Berlin. The film was shown on June 22, 1970 in the first program of German TV broadcasting.
criticism
KJ Wendlandt wrote in Neues Deutschland :
"Director Richard Cohn-Vossen and his cameramen Hans E. Leupold and Christian Lehmann created a gripping film report that moves you close."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 16, 1970, p. 2
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 17, 1970, p. 10
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 31, 1970, p. 6