Blue Eyes (1989)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blue-eyed |
| Country of production | Germany , USA , Argentina |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Reinhard Hauff |
| script |
Dorothee Schön , Reinhard Hauff |
| production | Eberhard Junkersdorf |
| music | Marcel Wengler |
| camera |
Hector Morini , Jaroslav Kučera |
| cut | Heidi Handorf |
| occupation | |
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Blue Eyes is a German feature film from 1989. The framework is based on real events during the Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 .
action
The film is set in Argentina from 1980 against the (historical) background of the last Argentine military dictatorship . Johann Neudorf is a businessman who does good business with the Argentine military junta . His contacts extend to the top of the military government . His son also made a career after graduating from the military academy. Neither of them want to know anything about the serious human rights violations of the military in the context of their “dirty war” against left opponents of the regime, they are “naive” in this regard.
Only daughter Laura is politically on the other side. She works as a teacher and is involved in left-wing political resistance . Eventually Laura is arrested by the regime's henchmen and "disappears" without a trace. Johann goes in search of the daughter and finds her dead in a morgue. She was tortured and gave birth to a daughter in captivity, but there is no trace of her. Johann feels reminded of his early childhood. He himself was kidnapped by the SS as a child in Czechoslovakia during World War II , his parents were murdered and he was adopted by a German family. His own experiences lead Johann to break with the regime and risk his life to find his grandchild. When he finally finds his granddaughter and realizes that she has been adopted by an officer, he shoots him out of anger and desperation. The last scene shows the daughter who, like Johann, is blue-eyed as a little boy.
background
The shooting took place in Buenos Aires and Prague . Hauff shot the film in Argentina with an Argentinian crew around cameraman Hector Morini. In addition to Götz George, only Argentine actors played there, while in Czechoslovakia a Czech crew was hired for the sequences during the Second World War. Only Czechoslovak actors played here.
The framework plot is historically correct, the Argentine dictatorship kidnapped and murdered up to 30,000 opposition members from 1976 to 1983 (see Desaparecidos ). Many young women who gave birth to children in torture were taken away immediately after birth and the mothers were then killed. To this day, relatives of the people who "disappeared" at the time are still trying to find these children, most of whom were given up for adoption by officer's families. The confrontation with their true origin is usually a painful process for today's adult children - also because their supposed parents were often involved in the torture and murder of their actual birth parents.
Reviews
"The political drama anchors the equation of the South American military dictatorship and National Socialism skillfully on the level of individual experience, but suffers from dramaturgical weaknesses and simplifications."
"The quality of the film is in large part the quality of its script, which, with an elliptical narrative structure, with deliberate gaps and jumps, does not go in breadth, but in depth."
Awards
The film took part in the competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 1989 and was awarded the UNICEF Prize.
Web links
- Blue-eyed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Marti: Videla convicted of child robbery. Argentina's judiciary speaks of the systematic appropriation of babies by the military. Neue Zürcher Zeitung online, July 7, 2012
- ↑ Blue-eyed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 8, 2017 .