Farmers, bigwigs and bombs (film)

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Movie
Original title Farmers, bigwigs and bombs
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1973
length 450 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Egon Monk
production Northern German Radio
music Alexander Goehr
camera Hans Sommerfeld , Kurt Weber
cut Helga Stumpf , Stefanie Wilke
occupation

Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben is a five-part German television film from 1973. It is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hans Fallada from 1931. The book is about the historical events surrounding the Schleswig-Holstein rural people's movement and its boycott of the city of Neumünster . While Fallada has moved the plot to the fictional Pomeranian town of Altholm, the film - according to the actual historical events - takes place in Schleswig-Holstein . Filming locations were, among others, Hamburg , Rendsburg , Lüneburg , Eckernförde , Barlt , Schleswig ("The courthouse at Gottorfstrasse 2, which also houses the Schleswig-Holstein Regional Social Court, the Schleswig Social Court and the Public Prosecutor's Office, is located directly across from Gottorf Castle. It was built between 1876 and 1878 and was the seat of the former Prussian provincial government of the province of Schleswig-Holstein ") and Neumünster. Egon Monk received the German Academy of Performing Arts' television film award in 1973 for directing and overall performance .

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The tax officials Thiel and Kalübbe try to seize two oxen, but are hindered by protesting farmers under the leadership of the community chairman Reimers. The auxiliary editor Tredup is also on site, taking photos of the incident. In the evening he is visited by his supervisor, the local editor Stuff, accompanied by the seedy veteran Henning. Henning poses as an employee of a Berliner Illustrierte and both offer Tredup a lot of money for the pictures, who claims, however, that he did not take any usable photos. The next day, Tredup offers the photographs to the Mayor of Altholm, Gareis, who, however, declares that he is not responsible and has the assistant editor brought by the police inspector Frerksen to Schleswig to the regional council. The moment they both enter the office, Henning makes a bomb threat over the phone and the building is cleared. Tredup has the last remaining officer, the Assessor Mayer, pay out a thousand marks and hands over the photos.

He buries most of the money in the field at night. He is observed by the farmer Banz, who also informs his wife about the location of the hiding place. In the meantime Henning, who belongs to the backers of the radicalizing rural people movement, tries to steer the uprising of the peasants into violent channels. He brings detonators and explosives into his possession, hides the material in Banz's yard and carries out an attack on the regional council in Schleswig. For the demonstration march of the peasants, which comes together for the release of the parish chairman Reimers, he makes a flag, which he carries in front of the procession himself. On the day of the demonstration, Gareis, who knows that he is in agreement with the farmer leader Benthien, takes leave, while Frerksen is put under pressure by Mayer because the government fears a riot. Overwhelmed by the contradicting instructions, Frerksen decides to stop the demonstration and tries to have Henning's flag removed. In the argument between Frerksen's men and the farmers, several people were injured on the part of the demonstrators, including Henning and Banz.

Tredup, who is specifically asked by his wife about the income in connection with the photographs, withholds the money from her and claims that she does not know anything about it. In the editorial office, too, he is approached by local notables and threatened with denunciation. Meanwhile, the newspaper changes hands and the new editor Gebhardt instructs the nationally-minded stuff not to write anything that could anger social democratic readers. When this Tredup gives the news, this stuff asks to stand up for him. In return, Tredup explains an idea of ​​how national ideas can be accommodated in the newspaper. Both compose a text, which they pass on as a sent in reader opinion and which addresses a possible boycott of the farmers against the city of Altholm.

At a nightly gathering of farmers, the text is read out and is met with great approval. As a result, Gareis gathered dignitaries and businessmen from Altholms and downplayed the possible effects of a boycott by the farmers. But the assembly decides against the will of the mayor to put together a commission that enters into negotiations with the rural people's movement. Gareis refuses to become part of the negotiating group, and the assembled legation proves incapable. At first the representatives of the citizens let the farmers send them around aimlessly and are finally forced, after an hour-long odyssey, to accept the farmers' demands in the central assembly hall of Altholm without negotiation. In the evening, during an extensive visit to an inn, including women, the ambassadors decide that the costs have to be borne by the city treasury. That same night, Tredup discovers that his wife has written an extortionate letter to Stuff. In it she reports about abortions caused by them, which she learned about from her husband. The couple gets into an argument over this letter, which quickly becomes palpable.

Episodes

  • Part 1: The farmers , first broadcast April 23, 1973.
  • Part 2: The Demonstration , first broadcast April 24, 1973.
  • Part 3: The Townspeople , first broadcast on April 29, 1973.
  • Part 4: All against all , first broadcast on May 3, 1973
  • Part 5: Judgment Day , first broadcast May 8, 1973.

media

The series was never released on video , a DVD edition was released in 2007.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guter Sozi In: Der Spiegel 17/1973, on: Spiegel Online ; Retrieved June 16, 2011