The transition (film)

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Movie
Original title The transition
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1978
length 78 minutes
Rod
Director Orlando Luebbert
script Orlando Luebbert
production DEFA , KAG Berlin
music Ivan Pequeño
camera Jürgen Brauer
cut Christa Helwig
occupation

The transition is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Orlando Lübbert from 1978 .

action

In December 1973, a few weeks after the coup by the fascist junta in Chile , Carlos Zuniga, a worker from a textile factory, is on the run across the Andes to Argentina . In the dark he looks for accommodation on a farm and is accepted. During the night, Chilean military personnel came into the house looking for a deputy who was on the run. They also discover Carlos, who pretends to be a traveling merchant, which the soldiers do not believe him because he has calluses on his hands. But then the soldiers find weapons in the apartment, so Carlos is uninteresting and chased away. While running, he hears gunfire, which suggests that the farmer will be shot.

The next day, Carlos meets the officer Lorenzo Guttierez and the student Juan Toro in the mountains, who is tasked with taking Lorenzo across the border. The new community of convenience must first come together and therefore make a precisely detailed plan about how to proceed, which does not go without a dispute. Already on their arduous journey, they experience how a cattle farmer is shot by Chilean police officers. Shortly afterwards, they seek shelter with a peasant woman, as Juan's wounds inflicted on him during the torture in the junta prison have been broken open. In the heavily pregnant farmer's wife Rosa, they recognize the wife of the murdered cattle farmer, but to whom they do not reveal anything about her husband's death. However, they stay until she gives birth to their child and during this time they also do a lot of the work on the farm. When they say goodbye, they hand Rosa a letter in which they report what happened to their husband, and they also put their money together, which they hand over in another envelope.

When they finally crossed the border, they are arrested by Argentine police officers and locked in a police station. They will be treated fairly until a decision has been made on their asylum application , but it will be rejected. When Juan learns that the group is about to be extradited to Chile, he flees, but the policeman chasing him lets him go. The other two are taken to the border on horses and handed over to two Chilean policemen who immediately handcuff them. In the evening, Carlos and Lorenzo are brutally beaten for no reason by the two policemen who are the same as those who killed Rosa's husband.

The next morning one of the policemen sees Juan running in the valley and rides behind him. He catches him and shoots him. Carlos, who is already on his horse again, uses this opportunity to strangle the second policeman standing next to him with his locked handcuffs. Carlos and Lorenzo use his machine gun to shoot the returning policeman.

production

The transition was filmed on ORWO color by the artistic working group “Berlin”, with the support of Kinocentar Sofia , and had its world premiere on September 10, 1978 at the Berliner Kino International . The film was shown for the first time on November 18, 1980 in the first program on GDR television .

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Tamara Trampe , the scenario came from Orlando Lübbert, who was advised on the script by Wolfgang Kohlhaase . The music was played by the group Karaxu .

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
pink Adelaida Arias Jutta Wachowiak
Juan Toro Oscar Castro Henry Pretty
Carlos Zuniga Hugo Medina Eberhard Mellies
Lorenzo Gutierrez Anibal Reyna Kurt Böwe

Awards

  • 1978: The transition received the state rating: valuable

criticism

Horst Knietzsch wrote in Neues Deutschland :

" The transition is a poetic parable about the behavior of people in extraordinary situations, about the political and moral problems that a defeat in the class struggle brings with it, about what has to happen afterwards, with a view to the future."

Günter Sobe said in the Berliner Zeitung :

“The uncertain expanse of a landscape with the chain of mountains sawing the horizon, far and near at the same time, destination and unattainable in one, characterizes the overall mood. The modesty that characterizes the claim of the film, its stylistic purity and the psychological accuracy with which the director knows how to interpret human reactions in acute and acute situations are impressive. He gets by without any gusto, without questionable oaths, without any pathos. That also determines the acting. This director doesn't fool himself and doesn't talk himself into anything. And he does the same with his audience. "

For the lexicon of international film it was a thematically important, staging convincing film by a young Chilean director in exile. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from September 11, 1978, p. 2
  2. ^ New Germany of September 12, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 16, 1978, p. 6
  4. ↑ The transition. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 4, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used