Daniel Druskat
| TV movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Daniel Druskat |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | Part 1: 90 minutes, Part 2: 100 minutes, Part 3: 100 minutes, Part 4: 60 minutes, Part 5: 70 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lothar Bellag |
| script | Lothar Bellag |
| production | Fritz Delp |
| music | Jens-Uwe Günther |
| camera |
Jürgen Heimlich , Franz Ritschel |
| cut | Silvia Lever |
| occupation | |
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Daniel Druskat is the title of a five-part feature film production by GDR television that was made between 1975 and 1976. The novel of the same name by Helmut Sakowski , published in 1976, served as a template . The first part was broadcast for the first time on April 12, 1976 in the first program of GDR television. The main character of Druskat is embodied in the cinematic implementation of Hilmar Thate, who in Manfred Krug in the role of the eloquent Max Stephan has an equal rival and friend at the same time.
action
Daniel Druskat came to the fictional village of Horbeck in Mecklenburg after the end of the Second World War. He has been well-liked there for many years and has been an integral part of the village community, but has always caused a stir. His wife died many years ago and so Druskat only lives with daughter Anja. There were enough women who had an eye on the handsome black-haired Daniel and wanted to take Anja’s mother's place. But with Daniel it was not an easy life and so no one stayed long on the farm. Druskat is now chairman of the LPG in Altenstein. One evening two men are standing at the door and pick him up. Daniel's daughter doesn't know why. In her perplexity, her first path leads to Max Stephan, the LPG chairman in the neighboring village of Horbeck. Although he has been friends with Druskat since his youth, both are rivals and often have arguments with each other. During the last argument between the two, Anja happened to be there when Max threatened to literally destroy Daniel. Did Max live up to this threat? In further conversations with the villagers, Anna gradually learns what is really behind it.
Production, shooting
After Weg über Land from 1968 and The Conspirators from 1971, Daniel Druskat was indeed the third major television work for the author Helmut Sakowski, but his first to be realized as a color film. According to production manager Fritz Delp, the shooting took place on a total of 135 days between February and October 1975. According to cameraman Jürgen Heimlich, not a single day of shooting in the studio was planned for the entire production. Instead, you only use real locations such as farmhouses, restaurants, cultural centers or the like, filming on 16 mm material and in “ full tone” ( original sound ), i.e. without complete dubbing . The image format used is 1.33: 1 (4: 3).
A large part of the shooting took place in the Neubrandenburg area in the summer of 1975. During this time, the torsion bar was housed in the Hotel Vier Tore in Neubrandenburg, which was demolished in 2016. Many scenes in the film were shot in the town of Buchholz an der Müritz in particular . Even today you can still find the property located directly on Dorfstrasse, which provided the striking backdrop for the Stephan family's homestead in Horbeck, as well as the village church opposite, from which Max and Hilde moved as the bridal couple in the second film. The building to the left of the village church served as the mayor's office in the same film. The cinematic location of Horbeck Castle , which was the place of work for LPG chairman Max Stephan in Horbeck, is, however, near Luckenwalde in the Brandenburg town of Stülpe. The castle there, with its long garden stairs, served as the appropriate backdrop for the exterior shots and for Max Stephan's office. According to the credits, the following people were still involved in the production:
- Dramaturgy: Helga Korff-Edel
- Production design: Arthur Büttner, Eberhard Bleichert, Dietrich Singer
- Requisite: Ulrich Christian, Herbert Gehrke
- Costumes: Ursula Wolf
- Masks: Jürgen Schwager, Bertl Fritze
- Sound: Rudolf Woska, Gisela Eweleit
- Lighting Brigade: Hans Kaufmann
- Camera assistance: Detlef Steppat, Heinz Rendant
- Location managers: Peter Bartsch, Rainer Gericke, Thomas Hund, Reinhard Schrade
- Assistant director: Hans Werner, Thomas Knauf
Television broadcast
The first broadcast of the first part of the five-part series began on the Monday of Holy Week 1976, April 12, at 8:00 p.m. 1st program of GDR television. The other parts were broadcast on April 13th, 16th, 18th and 20th over the Easter weekend. In September of the same year, the much-discussed multi-part series was broadcast again on the second channel of GDR television. Since Manfred Krug, Hilmar Thate and Angelica Domröse, the actors of important title characters, left the GDR in the years that followed, it was not broadcast again on GDR television in accordance with the customs of the time. Only after the political change in the GDR was the multi-part series shown again on GDR television for the first time in December 1989.
Award
In contrast to the first five-parter Weg über Land , filmed based on a template by Helmut Sakowski, the actors behind the camera went empty-handed when the national prizes were awarded. In 1968, director Martin Eckermann , dramaturge Helga Korff-Edel and cameraman Jürgen Heimlich together with the actors Manfred Krug , Ursula Karusseit and Christa Lehmann received the national first class prize for art and literature . Now Norbert Christian , Angelica Domröse , Erika Pelikowsky and Hilmar Thate each received the National Prize, 2nd class for art and literature, endowed with 50,000 marks . At the award ceremony, however, the entire acting work of the actors was honored, Daniel Druskat was not mentioned separately.
Trivia
The fictional villages Altenstein and Horbeck are assigned to the also fictional Weran district in the film - a play on words with the name of the former GDR district of Waren would be conceivable. In the first film, after about 26 minutes, the nearby "Rümitz - the largest inland sea in the country" is mentioned. Here, too, a play on words with Müritz, which is also in today's state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , is obvious.
Norbert Christian, actor in Gomolla, died in the year it was first broadcast in December 1976 after a serious illness at the age of only 51.
After filming Daniel Druskat Angelica Domröse left her then alcoholic husband Jiří Vršťala and moved in with the already divorced Druskat leading actor Hilmar Thate. Both were married until Thate's death in 2016.
DVD publications
- 2010: Daniel Druskat (3-DVD box from the series: DDR TV-Archiv , Icestorm Entertainment / Edel-Verlag, running time 435 minutes, FSK 6, date of publication: February 11, 2010, EAN: 4028951490134)
literature
- 1976: TV service special issue, Helmut Sakowski, Daniel Druskat: A film from the GDR television ( GDR television, program directorate, public relations department, 46 pages)
- That was the GDR from 1949 to 1990 - Daniel Druskat (folder / loose-leaf collection, category: culture - film and television, Atlas Verlag)
Web links
- Daniel Druskat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Daniel Druskat in the online film database
- Daniel Druskat at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Druskat | filmportal.de. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Helmut Sakowski, Daniel Druskat: e. Film d. Television d. GDR (= television service special issue ). Television d. GDR, Program Directorate, Public Relations Department, Berlin 1976 ( dnb.de [accessed April 14, 2020]).
- ↑ a b That was the GDR from 1949 to 1990 - Daniel Druskat . In: Category: Culture - Film and television . Atlas Publishing House.
- ↑ WORLD: Landmarks must give way: demolition of four-gate hotel . In: THE WORLD . September 28, 2016 ( online [accessed April 14, 2020]).
- ^ Helmut Borth: Filmdorf Buchholz: From Moorhund and Daniel Druskat | svz.de. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Attention, admission! July 25, 2015, accessed on April 13, 2020 (German).
- ↑ a b Television of the GDR, program directorate, public relations department (ed.): TV service special issue, Helmut Sakowski, Daniel Druskat: A film of television in the GDR . 1976.
- ↑ Interview with Angelica Domröse in SuperIllu from March 20, 2003
- ^ Daniel Druskat - GDR television film series Infokarte. Accessed April 14, 2020 (German).
- ↑ That was the GDR culture film TV Daniel Druskat. Accessed April 14, 2020 (German).