David (1979)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | David |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 127 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Lilienthal |
| script |
Jurek Becker Peter Lilienthal Ulla Ziemann |
| production |
Christoph Holch Joachim von Vietinghoff |
| music | Wojciech Kilar |
| camera | Al Ruban |
| cut | Siegrun hunter |
| occupation | |
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David is a German feature film by Peter Lilienthal from 1979. The film was based on the authentic report David - Notes of a Survivor ( Den Nets escaped ) by Ezra Ben Gershom (1922-2006), who published it under the pseudonym Joel König .
action
The film is set in Liegnitz in Lower Silesia during the Third Reich . Rabbi Singer celebrates the Jewish festival of Purim with his family . Boys of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic slogans in front of the Singers' house . The family is worried and no longer feels safe in Germany. The rabbi, however, is of the opinion that one does not run away from the mob and that Germany is not in common with this mob. However, the situation is getting worse. A few years later, David Singer is banned from school. His mother sends him to his brother Leo Singer in Berlin . David works in a workshop in Berlin and repairs sewing machines.
After the pogroms on the night of November 9-10, 1938, David's father, Rabbi Singer, was arrested. Mother Singer brings the son back to Liegnitz. When Rabbi Singer is released from custody, he tries to exude confidence in his family again. But mother Singer now has only one goal: to leave Germany as quickly as possible. David is now starting to work on a farm in the hope that he will be able to gain a foothold in exile more quickly with an agricultural training course.
However, the hope of leaving the country is destroyed by a deportation order. However, David escapes imprisonment and goes into hiding with his sister in Berlin. Father and mother are deported. David and Toni find refuge with a non-Jewish cobbler. The operator of an ammunition factory, where David was able to find casual work, declares himself an opponent of the Nazis when he realizes that David is a Jew. Disguised with false papers that identify him as "Wilhelm Schneider", David is supposedly sent to Vienna by the entrepreneur "to deal with matters important to the war effort". His sister stays in Berlin. When they say goodbye, she hands him shoes with new soles that the shoemaker had made especially for David's trip.
Reviews
"The film, which goes beyond the individual case and which ultimately asks more about preconditions for political responsibility instead of problems of guilt, impresses with its real feeling and careful design."
Awards
The film was awarded the Golden Bear at the 1979 Berlinale . Walter Taub received the German Film Prize in 1979 for his portrayal of Rabbi Singer . The film was also awarded the German Film Prize in silver.
literature
- Sandberg, Claudia: Homelessness as a survival strategy. Peter Lilienthal's DAVID (1979). In: Filmblatt Volume 18, No. 51 Spring 2013, pp. 37–46.
- Robert R. Shandley : 1979: Peter Lilienthal makes "David", the first post Shoah German-Jewish film . In: Sander L. Gilman , Jack Zipes (Ed.): Yale companion to Jewish writing and thought in German culture 1096-1996. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997, pp. 790-795
Web links
- David in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- David at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannes Stein: He survived like a dream dancer . September 26, 2006 ( welt.de [accessed February 5, 2019]).
- ↑ David. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 20, 2017 .