The pedel

Movie
Original title	The pedel
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1971
length	74 minutes
Rod
Director	Eberhard Itzenplitz
script	Paul Mommertz
production	Paul Mommertz
occupation
Manfred Seipold : Author Heinz Schacht : Jakob Schmid Hans Michael Rehberg : Dramaturg Gustl Bayrhammer : Wördenbacher Claudia Butenuth : Gisa Trude Breitschopf : Mrs. Schmid Karlheinz Fiege : Public Prosecutor Gerhard Jentsch : Defender Alois Maria Giani : Presiding judge Lina Carstens :

Der Pedell is a German television play from 1971. It deals with a section in the life of Jakob Schmid , a house fitter and pedell at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich before and during the time of National Socialism .

The film describes how Schmid discovered the siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl , members of the White Rose resistance group , when they were distributing leaflets in the stairwell of the university on February 18, 1943, as well as the extradition of the siblings to the Gestapo and their murder by the NS Regime.

The film was produced as a television play for ZDF .

criticism

"... Serious and thought-provoking attempt to come to terms with the German past using the example of a man who 'only did his duty' and was later unable to repent or understand."

Web links

• The caretaker at the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 438