Best Opportunity to Die (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The best opportunity to die |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 73 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rudolf Sporrer |
| script | Henric Wuermeling |
| production | Bernd Steuer |
| music | Axel Sand |
| camera | Axel Sand |
| cut | Axel Sand |
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Best Opportunity to Die is a 1992 television documentary . It was produced for Bavarian television and is based on the war experiences and recordings of an Alsatian soldier in the First World War .
Background and content
In the mid-1980s, Bernd Ulrich discovered Dominik Richert's war memories in the Freiburg military archive , which were written on a total of 337 typewriter pages. Together with the radio journalist Angelika Tramitz , who researched the author, the origin and the background, the two first published the work in 1989 as a book with the title Best Opportunity to Die at Knesebeck Verlag . In 1992 the material was filmed by Oberland TV Munich. The script follows the published book and less the notes. The scenes are re-enacted by amateur actors, while two speakers in the background tell the story like an audio book. In addition, historical film material is sometimes shown.
literature
- Christian Koller: Alsacien, deserter! The war experience of the Alsatian farmer Dominik Richert as reflected in his memoirs. In: BIOS - Journal for Biography Research and Oral History. 13. L + B, Leverkusen 2000, ISSN 0933-5315 pp. 225-239.
Web links
- Best chance to die on youtube.com
- Information on the best opportunity to die on krieg-film.de
- Best opportunity to die on katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
- Best chance to die at WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Credits to Best Opportunity to Die on youtube.com, at 1:12:50, accessed on February 5, 2014.
- ↑ Reinhard Olt: War experiences of an Alsatian. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. dated August 11, 1989, p. 6.