Danton's Death (1977)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Danton's death |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 138 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fritz Bornemann |
| production | Television of the GDR |
| music | Henry Krtschil |
| camera |
Werner Schamm Uwe Reuter Hans-Joachim Döbler Horst Rudolph Wolfram Huth |
| cut | Jürgen Schulz |
| occupation | |
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Dantons Tod is the 1977 studio recording for East German television of a production by Fritz Bornemann based on a drama by Georg Büchner from 1835.
action
production
In the Berliner Zeitung , the director Fritz Bornemann commented on the concept: “One starting point for us was Büchner's relationship to the fourth estate. In other words, the actions of the heroes, seen from below, from the masses. We tried to use the means of television as a medium to emphasize the folk scenes as a permanent reference level. "
The first broadcast took place in the first program of the television of the GDR on March 27, 1977.
Awards
- 1978: Special award at the 6th International Festival of Television Theaters in Plovdiv
criticism
“Thanks to Fritz Bornemann and his collective for a great evening on TV. It should not be a small impetus to keep dealing with Danton or with Büchner. This can only be of use to us in the development of the heritage, and what Büchner tells us about attitudes towards the revolution through the mouths of the heroes of the French Revolution is not so far away that it could not still be topical in this world in the sense of the time: Danton and no end. "
“Solters Danton climbs - even in the moments of sensual life affirmation - into a kind of fatalism, with which he seems to be in love as with a new religion; a former revolutionary who becomes a comedian of himself and offers the tribunal a performance in gesticulating rhetoric; a Danton who flees himself and yet lacks the serenity to stand coolly beside himself. "
Web links
- See the online dictionary of television in the GDR
- Danton's Death at the Internet Movie Database (English)