The song of the trumpeter

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Movie
Original title The song of the trumpeter
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1964
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Konrad Petzold
script Hans-Albert Pederzani
Konrad Petzold
Dieter Scharfenberg (Dramaturgy)
production DEFA , KAG "concrete"
music Gerhard Rosenfeld
camera Günter Haubold
cut Thea Richter
occupation

Das Lied vom Trompeter is a German DEFA feature film by Konrad Petzold from 1964. The scenario by Hans-Albert Pederzani is based on the novel Our Little Trumpeter by Otto Gotsche .

action

Worker's son Fritz Weineck loved music even as a child . At first he played a harmonica , but was later allowed to play a trumpet that belonged to his wealthy friend Georg Füllbrinck. When the First World War was on the horizon, friendship was disrupted as Fritz turned to the socialists and, among other things, put up posters against the war. While he stayed in Halle , Georg went to war. Fritz's friend Alfons Wieland also became a soldier. He lost an arm in the war and therefore gave Fritz his trumpet as a present on his return.

While Georg became a police officer after the war and had nothing else in mind than to destroy the socialists, Fritz was now a staunch socialist. He actively participates in the fighting movement. When the guns are stolen from the workers by the police and he learns where they are hiding the loot, he organizes an attack on the police officers' weapons depot. Fritz is in charge of the attack and gives the signal to attack with his trumpet. Because Alfons was not used by the comrades because of his handicap, but would like to be involved in the action, Fritz gave him the task of loading the captured rifles into the waiting boats. Alfons' psyche, however, fails at the crucial moment: Because he never wants to see armed force used again, shaped by the war, he destroys the rifles instead of loading them. In this way, the workers cannot help their leader, who has come under the control of the police and is being killed by them.

Fritz reproaches himself, but can rehabilitate himself together with Alfons when the new leader of the workers Borsdorff is to be liquidated and only through the use of Fritz, Alfons and Arbeiter Kleckchen is brought out of the danger zone. Again Fritz gives a signal with his trumpet - this time to distract the pursuers from Borsdorff and to attract attention. He is seriously injured by Georg's men. However, Fritz soon recovered and leads the music train that is supposed to pick up Ernst Thälmann from the station. Thälmann wants to speak to the workers in Halle, but the police have already set a trap. They want to disrupt the overcrowded meeting, turn off Thalmann and kill the uncomfortable Fritz. When the police storm the meeting, Fritz gives a warning signal with his trumpet and Thälmann is protected by the workers present. Georg shoots Fritz down, who a little later is able to warn a comrade about the police with his last breath with his trumpet signal and then dies. The dead Fritz and other comrades killed in the police action are commemorated in a large memorial event.

production

The song from the trumpeter is based on a real story that Otto Gotsche processed in his book Our Little Trumpeter . The film was shot in Totalvision and had its premiere on October 1, 1964 in the CT-Lichtspiele in Halle. The film was released in GDR cinemas on November 6th.

After the two Ernst Thälmann films - Ernst Thälmann - son of his class and Ernst Thälmann - leader of his class - Günther Simon took on the role of Ernst Thälmann for the third and last time in this film .

criticism

Contemporary critics praised the film. The scenes of the soldiers marching out of Halle had a "strong, dynamic effect", the scenes of Fritz, Alfons, Kleckchen and Borsdorff's flight over the roofs of Halle were "carried by great external tension" and the crowd scenes at the meeting in front of Thälmann's speech would "impress".

For the lexicon of international films , Das Lied vom Trompeter was “an exciting and impressively narrated DEFA production about the struggle of the workers' movement after the First World War, whereby the reality of that time was adjusted according to the canon of SED history propaganda. However, the film speaks more to the feelings than to make historical connections transparent. "

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ S. in: Berliner Zeitung , October 3, 1964.
  2. ↑ The Song of the Trumpeter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used