The valley of the seven moons

Movie
Original title	The valley of the seven moons
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1967
length	73 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Gottfried Kolditz
script	Irmgard Koehler Lutz Koehler
production	DEFA
music	Gerhard Wohlgemuth
camera	Erwin Anders
cut	Ursula Zweig
occupation
Manfred Richter : Rudek Heidrun Polack : Martyna Marianne Christina Schilling : Stephanie Hannjo Hasse : Paramedic Ingolf Gorges : Janel Fred Delmare : Healer Mathilde Danegger : Babka Hans Klering : Junk dealers Horst Kube : Draisine driver Achim Petry : Joszef Siegfried Voss : Partisan Joachim Pape : SS officer Jochen Diestelmann : 2nd SS man Arnim Mühlstädt : Gendarme Heinz Liefers : Pastor Maria Rouvel : Rudek's mother Fritz Left : Skutella

The Valley of the Seven Moons is a GDR movie by Gottfried Kolditz from 1967 . The production of the “ VEB DEFA -Studio for Feature Films Babelsberg ”, artistic working group (KAG) “Red Circle”, is based on the war novel of the same name by Harry Thürk , which was published in 1963 by the Das Neue Berlin publishing house . It tells the story of a young “ ethnic German ” who became a supporter of the partisans in Poland during the Second World War .

action

During the Second World War, in 1944, a railway line was built in the Beskids (a mountain range in Poland) to transport ore to Germany. The young worker Rudek lives with the other Germans in a camp in the forest. There is a hidden village nearby, where he meets the Polish-Jewish girl Martyna. The two begin a relationship, but in order not to endanger their lives, they have to keep this a secret from both the Germans and the villagers.

Especially when old Frau Babka, with whom Martyna lives, is hanged by the gendarmes, Rudek begins to doubt German ideals more and more. More atrocities followed by the Germans, which led Rudek to switch sides. Together with Martyna, Rudek helps the partisans to blow up the railway systems.

Broadcasts

The premiere in the cinema was on February 10, 1967. The television premiere took place in the first program of the television of the GDR on March 1, 1968.

Reviews

"A thematically interesting, staging but not convincing film."

- Lexicon of international film

literature

• Harry Thürk: The valley of the seven moons , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1995, ISBN 978-3-354-00841-0 .
• Lexicon of international film , Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 978-3-499-16357-9 . (Page 5485)

Web links

• Description of the novel on harrythuerk.de
• The Valley of the seven moons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The valley of the seven moons at filmportal.de
• Short scene of the film on youtube.com
• The valley of the seven moons at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Details about the film on defa-stiftung.de
2. ↑ The Valley of the Seven Moons. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 6, 2017 .