The house on Rheinsteinstrasse
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| Original title | The house on Rheinsteinstrasse |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 26 minutes |
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| Director | Simeon Stojanoff |
| script | Simeon Stojanoff |
| production | DEFA studio for short films on behalf of GDR television |
| music | Gerhard Rosenfeld |
| camera | Hanns-Otto Sunday |
| cut | Hannelore Grüßner |
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Das Haus in Rheinsteinstrasse is a documentary film by DEFA-Studios for short films on behalf of the East German television by Simeon Stojanoff from 1975 .
action
The camera leads us from Berlin's Alexanderplatz via the Berlin-Karlshorst S-Bahn station to the end of Rheinsteinstrasse. Here is the museum of the unconditional surrender of fascist Germany in the Great Patriotic War , in which the German Wehrmacht's document of surrender was signed on May 8, 1945 .
The path through the museum begins in the hall in which the act was performed. Lieutenant General Konstantin Telegin , member of the War Council of the 1st Belarusian Front and one of the plenipotentiaries to accept the surrender, remembers the signing in an interview, but he also recalled the sacrifices and the great efforts of the Red Army . These memories are accompanied by documentary recordings from the Second World War , which are replaced by recordings showing the arrival of the delegations and the signing of the documents.
Then the tour through the exhibition rooms begins, in which many young visitors to the museum express their opinions on the exhibits on display. Konstantin Telegin emphasizes that the Soviet people are aware that the German people were not guilty of the crimes committed against the Soviet and other attacked peoples during the war, because the German people themselves had become victims of the fascist leadership. In the rooms where Marshal Georgi Zhukov lived and worked in 1945 , works by Soviet artists and drawings by unknown soldiers of human size tell of the struggle and probation at the front. Photos and factual documents testify to the willingness to make sacrifices and the heroism of the Soviet people in the hinterland. Examples of the weapons made here can be viewed on the open-air site.
The participation of the allies of the Soviet Army in the Great Patriotic War is honored, historical documents show Polish, Czech and Slovak units on the side of the Red Army. Photo documents show the deployment of partisans and resistance fighters in Bulgaria , Yugoslavia , France , Greece , and Italy as well as the meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe . In addition to the photos of German anti-fascists and scouts , you will also find a photo of a woman in the uniform of a Soviet captain. It is about Ruth Stolz , who reports in front of the camera about her way into the Communist Party of Germany , emigration to the Soviet Union, joining the Red Army and her participation in the fighting as far as Berlin.
Much of what is shown in the exhibition is only accessible through the guided tours in German and Russian. The Berlin city map can also be seen on which Adolf Hitler had General Hans Krebs explain the situation in Berlin on April 30, 1945 at 8:00 a.m. , before he then committed suicide. Fyodor Shapovanov, the commander of the 2nd Rifle Battalion, the 1050th Rifle Regiment of the 5th Shock Army, who secured the city map on Hitler's card table on May 2, 1945, tells in front of the camera how it came about. Then the head of the political department of the 3rd shock army reports how the Reichstag building was stormed. On May 2, 1945, the German troops in the Berlin area capitulated.
The second historic event, which took place in the hall of the signing of the surrender, was the transfer of sovereignty rights to the first government of the German Democratic Republic by the head of the Soviet military administration in Germany , Army General Vasily Tschuikow .
Production and publication
The house on Rheinsteinstrasse was filmed by DEFA on behalf of GDR television on ORWO color and contains longer sequences of historical black and white film sections . The scenario was in the hands of Georg Redmann and Kurt Casper, who was also responsible for the dramaturgy.
The first broadcast took place on May 28, 1975 on the 2nd channel of East German television .
Web links
- The house on Rheinsteinstrasse at filmportal.de
- Das Haus in Rheinsteinstrasse Introduction to the film by Jeanpaul Goergen on March 22, 2019 in the Zeughauskino in Berlin