Escape

Movie
Original title	Escape
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1998
length	89 minutes
Rod
Director	Frank Beyer
script	Ulrich Plenzdorf
production	Norbert Sauer
camera	Eberhard Geick
cut	Clarissa Ambach
occupation
Peter Lohmeyer as Manfred Krug Karoline Eichhorn as Ottilie Krug Peter Donath as Manfred Salow Ann-Kathrin Kramer as Erika Salow Uwe Kockisch as Jurek Becker Jürgen Hentsch as Stefan Heym Ulrich Matthes as Eberhard Esche Hermann Lause as Werner Lamberz Hermann Beyer as Frank Beyer Thomas Dehler as Ulrich Plenzdorf Viktor Deiß as Heinrich Adameck Manfred Gorr as Gerhard Wolf Matthias Günther as Klaus Schlesinger Günter Junghans as Hans-Joachim Hoffmann Karl Kranzkowski as Heiner Müller Ute Lubosch as Christa Wolf Thomas Neumann as Eberhard Heinrich Gunter Schoß as Hans Dieter Mäde Franziska Troegner as Danielle C Alexander Reed as lieutenant captain Gabrielle Scharnitzky as Comrade Krause Christiane Heinrich as Angelika Domröse Martin Seifert as Hilmar Thate Klaus Mertens as head of the internal affairs department Swetlana Schönfeld as Barbara Dittus

The Runaways is a documentary, German television film by Frank Beyer from the year 1998. According to the diaries of the actor Manfred Krug , he describes actual events that the expatriation of songwriter Wolf Biermann from the GDR followed.

action

On November 20, 1976, three days after Biermann's expatriation, a group of intellectuals and artists gathered in Manfred Krug's house to hold discussions with high-ranking SED officials . The group consists of the signatories of a letter of protest to the Politburo of the SED demanding the withdrawal of the expatriation. It includes writers like Jurek Becker, Christa Wolf, Stephan Hermlin, Stefan Heym and Heiner Müller, actors like Hilmar Thate and Angelika Domröse and other well-known cultural workers from the GDR, including Frank Beyer and Ulrich Plenzdorf, the director and screenwriter of the Films. The first part documents the discussion in Manfred Krug's house, which he secretly recorded with a tape: The high-ranking party secretary Werner Lamberz and his companions want to distance the group from their own petition, which - spread through western media - in the GDR is now making waves.

The second part of the film deals with the consequences that writing had on the life of the signatories - exemplified by the experiences of Manfred Krug. After the discussion and the refusal to withdraw his signature from the letter, he was given an unofficial ban on the profession. He therefore decides to apply for an exit visa with his family . This marked the beginning of a week-long psychological war between the state and Krug's family, which finally ended when they left for West Berlin .

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film : An intensive television film, located between document and careful staging, which concentrates entirely on the verbose debates and arguments and, with little external action, requires a high degree of attention to the multitude of important information and facts. Only at the very end do Frank Beyer and Manfred Krug allow themselves an emotional, very touching private comment on the otherwise factual and laconic preparation of this important German-German chapter.

Awards

Frank Beyer was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1999 for his film .

Web links

• Cut off in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Chopped off at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Run away. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .