Böseckendorf - The night in which a village disappeared
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Böseckendorf - The night in which a village disappeared |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Oliver Dommenget |
| script |
Daniel Maximilian , Thomas Pauli |
| production |
Dominik Frankowski , Ica Souvignier , Michael Souvignier |
| music | Jörg Rausch |
| camera | Georgy Pestov |
| cut | Ingo Recker |
| occupation | |
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Böseckendorf - The Night in which a Village Disappeared is a German TV film from 2009 by director Oliver Dommenget . The film has a real background through the mass exodus of 53 residents of the village of Böseckendorf on October 2, 1961 from the GDR to the Federal Republic.
action
The divided Germany in 1961: Near the inner-German border to Lower Saxony is located in Thuringia the village Böseckendorf. Mayor Manfred Lantz is a staunch communist and is currently trying to convince farmers of the advantages of an agricultural production cooperative. But they don't want to know about it and instead make fun of the FDJ by putting the blue shirts on their scarecrows .
The unruliness of the residents of Böseckendorf is also a thorn in the side of the SED officials around Robert Grewe from the district headquarters in Erfurt . In particular, the fact that the residents refuse to take part in the annual celebrations for the anniversary of the GDR on October 7th should now come to an end, which is why the functionary Jutta Marx is tasked with taking the residents to the celebrations on the bus with the support of the NVA to spend. Jutta Marx is also supposed to hunt down an unknown escape helper who has been helping GDR citizens escape to the West for some time . She receives support from a spy from Böseckendorf, who provides the officials with information.
When Mayor Lantz zu Grewe was summoned to Erfurt, he managed to get an insight into a secret file on " Operation Cornflower ". Accordingly, plans are being made to relocate unruly and ideologically unreliable residents away from the border into the interior of the country against their will. The campaign is planned to follow the festivities so that the residents who have been transported by bus will no longer be allowed back to Böseckendorf. The mayor tells his wife Tonia about it.
Tonia Lantz confesses to her husband that she is the ominous smuggler and asks her husband to tell the residents about the imminent forced relocation . You then decide to flee across the border. With a trick they manage to expose Bea Radler as an informant and use her to deliberately misinform the officials.
On the evening of October 2, 1961, 53 people from 14 families finally managed to flee to the West, making it the largest mass flight across the inner-German border in history.
background
The feature film was first broadcast on September 22, 2009 on SAT.1 as part of a themed evening with subsequent documentation under the title Grenzfall “Böseckendorf” - Escape at the Last Second .
Many scenes from the film were shot in the village of Räbke near the Elm .
Reviews
“(TV) event movie about a guaranteed chapter of German-German history, which heroizes the people it tells about excessively and turns them into figureheads. The real fate of Böseckendorf is definitely more thought-provoking than the 'event people'. "
“Dommenget staged the historic event calmly. He addresses the terror experience of the villagers in the 'Third Reich' and does not shy away from relegating Stasi arbitrariness to the atrocities of the Gestapo. While Falko Korth and Thomas Riedel highlight the threatened military escalation after the escape in their documentary 'Grenzfall Böseckendorf' (10:25 p.m.), Dommenget restricts himself to the interpersonal relationships of the villagers and thus gives away the possibility of historical classification. "
“The film is a solid mini-epic: the costumes match, the equipment carefully. There is real adventure and drama. "
“There are films that are so bad that you don't really want to bother to analyze the script or the direction. [..] Director Oliver Dommenget now reconstructs the events as a mixture of smugglers' adventures, farmer's theater and intriguing barn. [..] And here the whole simplicity of the film reveals itself: The party goat is tricked like a teacher on a school trip, the two competing men hit each other's heads in the most inopportune moments of the nightly escape - and of course the pregnant sister gets the heroine her child right under the lights of the GDR border guards. In this way, the actual historical event becomes the background for the blood-and-tears scenario customary in the genre, and the real GDR defiant heads from the real Böseckendorf see themselves being degraded to event movie staffage. "
See also
Web links
- Böseckendorf - The Night a Village Vanished in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documentation borderline case "Böseckendorf" - escape at the last second 'in the lexicon of international film
- ↑ Jörg Kleinert: Räbke is proud to be a film village in the Braunschweiger Zeitung from September 15, 2009
- ^ Böseckendorf - The night in which a village disappeared. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Judgment on the “Böseckendorf” theme evening: Spotlights on a dark chapter
- ^ Film review GDR material on Sat.1: The village is running away
- ↑ Film review straw dolls in Ossi costume