08/15 at home

Movie
Original title	08/15 at home
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1955
length	96 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Paul May
script	Ernst von Salomon
production	Ilse Kubaschewski Walter Traut Paul May
music	Rolf A. Wilhelm
camera	Georg Krause
cut	Walter Boos
occupation
OE Hasse : Major General von Plönnies Hannes Schiel : SD standard leader Georg Hauk Gustav Knuth : Major Hinrichsen Emmerich Schrenk : Captain Fritz Schulz Michael Janisch : SD-Obersturmführer Greifer Joachim Fuchsberger : Lieutenant Herbert Asch Stig Roland : Lieutenant Brack Max Mairich : Paymaster Brahm Hans Christian Blech : Sergeant Platzek Peter Carsten : Corporal Kowalski Mario Adorf : NCO trunk Fritz Remond : CIC officer Ted Kurt Heintel : CIC officer James Howard Vernon : CIC officer John Helen Vita : Lore Schulz Renate Ewert : Barbara Bruks Edith Schultze-Westrum : Mrs. Brahm Gustav Waldau : Old man Hertha von Hagen : Old woman Franz Essel : NSDAP district leader Hans Karl Friedrich : Major Horn Rudolf Rhomberg : NSDAP local group leader Arnulf Schröder Dietrich Thoms Walter Klock Jürgen Micksch Hans Pössenbacher
chronology
←  Predecessor 08/15 Second part

08/15 in der Heimat is a German feature film from 1955. It is the third part of the 08/15 film trilogy based on Hans Hellmut Kirst's novel 08/15 .

action

The third part describes the end of the war and how afterwards the Nazi functionaries and "commiss heads" suddenly became resistance fighters and opponents of the regime, and how they came back to "office and dignity" in West Germany .

In the spring of 1945 the battalion around Kowalski, Major General von Plönnies and Asch, who has meanwhile been promoted to lieutenant, hoped to survive the looming defeat as lightly as possible. Meanwhile, two members of the security service of the SS (SD), SS-Standartenführer Hauk and his adjutant SS-Obersturmführer Greifer, use the general uncertainty to come into possession of a load of platinum by pretending to be a colonel and first lieutenant of the Wehrmacht. They commit murders of paymaster Brahm and his wife. Asch sees through them and sets out to pursue them together with Kowalski. While the American troops advance, the Germans try to adapt to the new conditions after the end of the war. All indications of proximity to National Socialism are hastily removed, and soldiers pretend to be civilians to avoid imprisonment. Hauk tries to escape from captivity and shoots another prisoner of war who tries to prevent him from escaping. The captain Fritz Schulz, who previously belonged to the regime, now knows how to offer himself to the new gentlemen as the future mayor. Major General von Plönnies, on the other hand, who had Greifer hanged shortly before the end of the war because of the two murders after a quickly convened military tribunal, is arrested by the Americans because they believe the executed man to be a resistance fighter. The former soldiers loyal to the major general want to free him, but he refuses to face his responsibilities.

production

The film was directed by the production company KG Divina GmbH & Co. produced. The company belonged to Ilse Kubaschewski , who was also the owner of the first distributor Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG . The outdoor shots were taken in Rosenheim and the surrounding area and the powder mill in the Stephanskirchen community , the studio shots in the Divina-Studio Baldham .

The world premiere took place on December 30, 1955 in Wanne-Eickel .

Reviews

• “Again more interested in laughing success, therefore only in a few places impressively critical and shocking.” - 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958. Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition. Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 324.

• “[...] routinely staged Wehrmacht film [...]. More critically than its two predecessors, the satirical film tries to disenchant the soldier's life. ”(Rating: 2 stars = average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in the dictionary“ Films on TV ”. (Extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 615.

• “Another hodgepodge of different types and stories, located between farce and tragedy. A basically apolitical film that only shakes and impresses in a few moments. ” - Lexicon of international film

literature

• Knut Hickethier : 08/15, 08/15 - 2nd part, 08/15 at home . In: Film Genres. War Movie. Edited by Thomas Klein, Marcus Stiglegger and Bodo Traber. Stuttgart: Reclam 2006, pp. 101-106 [with references]. ISBN 978-3-15-018411-0 .

Web links

• 08/15 at home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• 08/15 at home at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 542
2. ↑ 08/15 at home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .