Assassination attempt on the mighty
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| Original title | Assassination attempt on the mighty |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 85 minutes |
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| Director | Herbert Ballmann |
| script | Gerd Angermann |
| production | Rudolf Hertzog |
| music | Rolf Unkel |
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Assassination of the Mighty is a German film drama in black and white from 1969 by the director Herbert Ballmann . Gerd Angermann wrote the script . It is based on the novel of the same name by Edzard Schaper . The leading roles are cast with Norbert Hansing , Claudia Wedekind , Volker Brandt and Friedrich Maurer . The film was shown for the first time on December 17, 1969 in the program of the Second German Television ( ZDF ).
action
The film is set in 1901 in a spa town in the Taunus near Frankfurt am Main . A distinguished visit from Russia has been announced: the educator of the tsar prince and church minister Pobjodonoszew. He wants to spend a relaxing holiday here and at the same time take the opportunity to talk to the visiting German Emperor Wilhelm II about the threat to the Christian West from modern nihilism . Because the guest reputation precedes to apply in Russia as the most hated man, fearing government circles to legal risk that one on him attack could be perpetrated. The clerk of Diebitch is therefore tasked with monitoring the princes of the church.
Diebitsch's employee, Sergeant Paul, succeeds in arresting a Polish couple who have disguised themselves as wedding couples . A series of complications now begins for Diebitsch, which are not provided for in the service instructions and are not covered by its provisions. After a discussion with the two Poles, the cleric ordered their release immediately. Diebitsch can no longer rest day and night; but in the end everything dissolves in good pleasure: the church minister is in the best of health; the prevented assassins leave (this is where the film deviates from the novel, where a kind of friendship develops between the Polish woman Sofia and the old clergyman) and the stressed government trainee receives a medal.
Reviews
The Evangelical Film-Observer draws the following conclusion: “Only partially successful television film based on the novel of the same name by Schaper, which primarily caricatures the bureaucracy of the Wilhelmine era, but only hinted at the humanity intended in the person of a Tsarist church minister . "
Web links
- Assassination of the powerful in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Film-Beobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 21/1969, p. 22