Nobility in decline (film)

Movie
Original title	Nobility in decline
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1981
length	170 minutes
Rod
Director	Wolf-Dieter Panse
script	Karl Heinz Berger , Günter Karl
production	Television of the GDR
music	Peter Gotthardt
camera	Harry Valek
occupation
Erwin Berner : Arnold Vieth von Golßenau Horst Schulze : Baron von Miltitz Andreas Knaup : Alexander von Anderten Albrecht Goette : Rolf von Seydewitz Ute Lubosch : Mia von Fuchs-Nordhoff Erik S. Klein : King Friedrich August III. of Saxony Holm Gärtner : Lieutenant Crown Prince Georg Wolfgang Brumm : Lieutenant Prince Friedrich Christian Klaus-Dieter Klebsch : Captain von Hartwig Peter Bause : Captain von Hingst Frank Schenk : Lieutenant von Schimpff Christian Stövesand : Lieutenant William von Anderten Christian Ballhaus : Lieutenant von Grünwald Lothar Förster : Lieutenant von Friesen Klaus Nietz : Lieutenant von and zu Tschammer Jörg Knochée : Lieutenant Count Vitzthum

Needle in the fall is a two-part TV movie of the television of the GDR . Directed by Wolf-Dieter Panse . Erwin Berner and Horst Schulze can be seen in the main roles . It is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ludwig Renn . It was first broadcast in January 1981.

content

In 1910, the 20-year-old Arnold Vieth of Golßenau (NB .: Ludwig Renn's original name) begins as a cadet on a career as a professional officer in the army of the German Empire . As a member of the German nobility, this professional career is predestined for him. As he rose quickly and made it to the position of General Staff officer on the Western Front , doubts about the meaningfulness of what he was doing grow in him. He finds himself in an inner dichotomy between the performance of military duties and rebellion against the rules of his class.

Radiance and resonance

The first part of the color film was first broadcast on the television of the GDR on January 1, 1981 and achieved a viewing participation of 18.9% with average ratings of 3.32. The broadcast of the second part on January 4, 1981 achieved a participation rate of 26.2% and with 3.6 a slightly worse rating than the first part.

The film was released on DVD on August 4, 2017 , published by Studio Hamburg Enterprises .

criticism

Barbara Faensen expressed herself as follows in the Neue Zeit :

“But that a book that has found millions of readers all over the world flickers across the screen in such a different way, supplemented with passages that Renn never wrote or in another context, with shifted perspectives, exaggerated details, with gross mistakes in direction, in a boring one Camera work, with scenes of such paper dryness that Renn would not have undermined - that must annoy the literary lover after all. "

Peter Hoff wrote in Neues Deutschland :

“Despite the necessary objections: a beautiful and atmospheric film, a poetic contribution to the development of our image of history. Of course, he is closer to historical biographies (from Müntzer to Scharnhorst) than Ludwig Renn's poetic epoch review. With this restriction it can be said: An age was visited. "

Web links

• Needle in the fall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Nobility in decline under fernsehenderddr.de
• Nobility in decline at filmeule.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "Adel im Untergang"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the DRA's visual participation file , accessed on September 6, 2017.  
2. ↑ Neue Zeit of January 6, 1981, p. 4
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 7, 1981, p. 4