Life goes on (film)

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Movie
Original title Life goes on
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year not published;
1944 / 1945 (filming)
Rod
Director Wolfgang Liebeneiner
script Gerhard Menzel

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Wolfgang Liebeneiner
production UFA
music Norbert Schultze
camera Günther Anders
cut Wolfgang Wehrum
occupation

Life goes on is an unfinished German propaganda film from the last days of the Second World War from 1945, the title and basic attitude of which was taken from an article written personally by Joseph Goebbels . The film, based on a treatment by Kurt Frowein , Hans Heinrich Henne and Gerhard Weise , was shot from November 20, 1944 to April 16, 1945 in the UFA studios in Babelsberg and Lüneburg .

The footage has been lost to this day. The genesis of the production was reconstructed by the director and film historian Hans-Christoph Blumenberg in his book Life goes on - the last film of the Third Reich , published in 1993 . The docu-drama Life goes on , published in 2002, is based on this book .

action

The film is about a community in Zehlendorf at the time of the bombing raids on Berlin in 1943. Ewald Martens, a graduate engineer , lives at Klopstockstrasse 48. He works for the Ministry of Armaments on a frequency direction finder that is supposed to give German night fighters advantages in combat .

Emergence

During the war winter at the end of 1944 in Babelsberg, everything of name and standing was mobilized for the last monumental film of the Third Reich. Under Wolfgang Liebeneiner's direction, mainly well-known actors were "hired for the supposed 'cinematic wonder weapon'". However, since Berlin was already destroyed at the time of filming, the city in Babelsberg had to be rebuilt; This location, however, was also attacked, and so the film crew moved in March 1945 to the air base to Lueneburg . Now the film should be completed "in urgent Reich interests". Since director Liebeneiner already had the defeat in mind, he worked out a second version that no longer corresponded to the intentions of the Reich Propaganda Ministry. When British troops marched into Lüneburg on April 18, 1945, Liebeneiner hid the film rolls in Bardowick Cathedral . They have since disappeared.

literature

  • Hans-Christoph Blumenberg: Life goes on . The last film of the Third Reich. 1st edition. Rowohlt-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87134-062-6 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner - In those days. 1947 (= googly eyes . Volume 33). Kulleraugen, Schellerten 2007, ISBN 978-3-88842-034-4 , pp. 4–10

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Christoph Blumenberg: Life goes on . The last film of the Third Reich. 1st edition. Rowohlt-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87134-062-6 , blurb.