Aces (movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Aces |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Gass |
| script |
Hans Oliva Karl Gass |
| production | DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries |
| music | Gerhard Rumpstück |
| camera |
Gerhard Münch Michael Biegholdt |
| cut | Christel Hemmerling |
| occupation | |
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Asse is a documentary film by the DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries by Karl Gass from 1966 .
action
The main role is played by 50 workers from the heavy machinery construction "Karl Liebknecht" in Magdeburg , who are to provide support for three months in the first half of 1964 in the construction of the oil processing plant in Schwedt on the Oder . They are among the best in their field in their main business and should now, with their Brigadier Herbert habener, iron out a shortfall in fulfilling the plan, the construction of a reformation plant for distilling crude oil, within the shortest possible time. Since the best are always the aces, the film is named after them. They are assembly fitters and welders, between twenty and fifty, married and single, insightful and cross-minded, adventurous and serene.
You will find your poor quarters in barracks on the premises of the VEB Rohtabak Schwedt in Gartz (Oder) . From there it goes 20 km by bus to Schwedt every morning. The evening program is a little too short, a little table tennis, a little billiards, but much more "lantern festivals" with beer and schnapps at "Dolly", the active consumer goods sales point manager. There are also small celebrations, so the workers invite their four cleaning ladies and Dolly to a celebration on Women's Day as thanks .
Above all, everyday work is shown, with its ups and downs. The production advice and the assembly work, problems with storage, but also disputes about the premiums or the lack of workers during Sunday work are addressed. After completing the work, it goes back to Magdeburg with a lot of praise and awards. When a few deficiencies in their work emerge after all, they don't look for the fault with others, but go straight to Schwedt to rectify them. This commitment in Schwedt also made them more mature as people.
production
Asse was shot as a black and white film under the working title Vom ich zum Wir and had its world premiere on March 10, 1966 in the Schwedt Kulturhaus. The subtitle of the film is: A report between the Elbe and the Oder .
criticism
G. Sobe wrote in the Berliner Zeitung that Asse is a good film, even if not all passages are equal and in his strongly impressionistic play it seems a bit confusing in the narrative style at first. But it offers more tension than some mediocre feature films.
In the New Age , the film was described as a factual report that is unpathetic and yet gripping and immediate. Some things were so real, as if they had been working with a hidden camera, as if people had forgotten them.
Jay Leyda , a film scholar from the USA is quoted in Neues Deutschland :
“This is an artistically and politically remarkable film. It opens up new possibilities for the active role of documentary film as a means of expressing public opinion and as its transmitter to the whole people. As long as such innovative, inventive films are made here, the GDR documentary will serve its country just as much as the workers in Asse do. "
Web links
- Aces in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Aces at filmportal.de
- Aces at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 11, 1966, p. 1
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 15, 1966, p. 6
- ↑ Neue Zeit of March 11, 1966, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 10, 1966, p. 4