Chief of the General Staff or death on the scaffold
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | "Chief of the General Staff or death on the scaffold". Stations in the life of Henning von Tresckow |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 42 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Teschner |
"Chief of the General Staff or death on the scaffold". Stations in the life of Henning von Tresckow is a documentary report on GDR television from 1986. Ulrich Teschner directed it .
content
The film is about the Wehrmacht officer and resistance fighter of July 20th, Henning von Tresckow . Family members, friends and former comrades of Tresckow have their say. So was u. a. held a conversation with the resistance fighter Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager in the Federal Republic.
Performances
On the 43rd anniversary of the assassination attempt on July 20 (1987), ARD broadcast the film.
In 2001 the German Resistance Memorial Center showed it .
reception
According to Martin Ahrends ( Die Zeit ), the film draws “a hero portrait that, in its one-dimensionality, does not leave a very lasting impression”. Tresckow will be "incorporated into the ranks of official GDR anti-fascist resistance fighters". In spite of all this, he has “a loving, conciliatory tone”. Attempts are made to “get closer to one's own history as German history”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ movie on 07.01.2001 , gdw-berlin.de, accessed on October 1, 2015.
- ↑ Martin Ahrends: A new tone . In: Die Zeit , July 17, 1987.