The transport
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The transport |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Jürgen Roland , Herbert Viktor |
| script |
Heinz Oskar Wuttig , Michael Mansfeld , Paul H. Rameau |
| production | Hermann Schwerin |
| camera |
Heinz Hölscher , Ted Kornowicz |
| cut | Klaus Dudenhöfer |
| occupation | |
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The Transport is a feature film by the German director Jürgen Roland from 1961 . The drama is a film adaptation of the 1959 novel by Wolfgang Altendorf of the same name .
action
Germany, March 1945. Shortly before the end of the war, the visually impaired reserve officer Felix Bleck, who was employed as a guard in a military prison , was given the task of leading 40 of his prisoners to the Western Front, where the men were to be deployed in a punitive battalion. It is clear to both the men and Bleck that he cannot look after the 40 prisoners on his own. While they are forging an escape plan so as not to be burned at the front, Bleck tries to win the sympathy of the prisoners with favors. When Bleck found out during the transport that his fiancée was killed in a bomb attack and that he had to carry out more and more nonsensical orders at the same time, he made a fateful decision: Together with his prisoners, he took over the train and breaks through the enemy lines: they want to get inside Imprisonment of war .
Reviews
The film service judged Roland's film in its contemporary criticism as a "realistic novel adaptation, staging and acting appealing" and placed it above the average German film of those years. "The internal and external conflict is developed in a credible manner, whereby the intense tension, especially the lurid conclusion, stands in the way of deepening."
Der Spiegel saw the film as a “righteous and type-specific song of praise from the great man in the great war.” The character growth of the main actor Hannes Messemer would “of course be presented penetratingly.” The plot also suffered from “the fact that the filmmakers felt as if they had the capacity to carry them Mistrusts history, serving the moviegoer love, rape, country humor, adventure and heroic death. "
The Evangelical movie watchers concluded as follows: "A to honesty bemühter but phony-looking film."
Trivia
Filming began under the direction of the documentary filmmaker Herbert Viktor and continued by Jürgen Roland at the request of the production company Fono-Film . Viktor was not mentioned in the opening credits of the film.
The film was shot mainly on the Sauschwänzle-Bahn in Baden-Württemberg ( Waldshut - Immendingen , officially Wutachtalbahn). Another location for the shooting was the train station in Germersheim ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), of which only the train station building still exists today. Everything else there has been greatly changed and modernized.
literature
- The transport (Germany). In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1961, pp. 53 ( online - 12 July 1961 ).
Web links
- The transport in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)
- ^ Film: New in Germany . In: Der Spiegel , July 12, 1961. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 419/1961