The crow tree
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The crow tree |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Guthke |
| script |
Mathias Schröder , Frank Guthke |
| production | Fritz Fuhlert |
| camera | Horst Zeidler |
| cut |
Volker Petry , Marion Schwartz |
| occupation | |
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The Crow Tree is a German television film from 1988 and a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mathias Schröder . According to the fade-in at the beginning of the film, it is dedicated to the children who lost their childhood through war.
action
The film is set in the fictional town of Werflo in the Kassel district . The actual plot takes place during the Second World War and is shown in black and white . However, this is embedded in a framework that is located in the present and shown in color. In the framework story you can first see how Michael Rost - author of Der Krähenbaum - comes to Werflo for an autograph session in a bookstore and visits Dieter Flimm in his shop and confronts him with his Nazi past. A little later, the bookstore's window is sprayed with swastikas. At the end of the film you can finally see how the shop windows are thrown in.
The main storyline tells of the life of the mothers Marin, Rost and Thomsen with their children, who all live in the Marin family's house. The children are laughed at by the Hitler Youth while they are playing , and later Günther is even beaten up by Hitler Youth members. In the school you can see the teacher Böhme reading from the Völkischer Beobachter and physically punishing the students . Again and again the children observe how prisoners from the nearby main camp flee and are shot in the process. General Marin visits his family during the course of the film and brings gifts to his children, such as: B. a rifle and a violin with. One day later, however, he had to go back to the front in Stalingrad , where the army was locked in. The adopted Gabriel Marin, who is of Jewish descent, has to leave the family and is brought to safety by the Leuthold. Then the Christian grandmother of the Marins arrives, who is a staunch opponent of National Socialism . In search of Gabriel, members of the Schutzstaffel visit the house and interrogate the residents. Leuthold later comes back to the family because he was stopped by the SS while driving with Gabriel. Gabriel was able to flee into the forest, but Leuthold could not find him again. Since Leuthold himself also fled from the SS, the residents of the house decide - despite some reservations - to hide him in the basement of the house. General Marin fell shortly afterwards in Stalingrad, causing the family's reputation to decline. Looking for Leuthold, another SS man arrives at the house, but does not find him. After a gate on the house is smeared, mother Thomsen leaves with her daughter. Shortly afterwards, the grandmother's horse is killed. An application from Mother Rost to be allowed to move too is rejected by the local group leader . When the next air raid alarm occurs , the residents of Leuthold's house go to the basement, where he is discovered by the SS men who reappear and shot, the grandmother is beaten to death in an attempt to protect him and Mother Marin is arrested. The grandmother tries to obtain her release, but learns that she has already been taken to Marburg , where she is to be killed. During the subsequent bombardment , the death of his grandmother is hinted at and Günther sees his brother Gabriel in hallucinations .
production
The shooting of the film took place in 1987, some of the recordings were made in the fishing school . The scenes from the family seat were filmed at Gut Honeburg in Osnabrück. The film was produced by the FWF - Fritz Wagner Film on behalf of the ZDF. It was first broadcast on March 7, 1988 on ZDF .
Web links
- The crows tree in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefanie Hausfeld: 1986–1992: Memories of my time in St. Angela . In: Angelaschule Osnabrück (Hrsg.): Festschrift 100 years Angelaschule & Angelakloster Osnabrück . Printing and publishing house Fromm, Osnabrück June 2003, p. 31 .