The good Goering
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The good Goering |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kai Christiansen |
| script |
Jörg Brückner Gerhard Spörl |
| production |
Sandra Maischberger Matthias Martens |
| music | Eike Hosenfeld |
| camera | Jan Kerhart |
| cut | Barbara Toennieshen |
| occupation | |
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The good Göring is a German docu-drama from 2016. The production is about Albert Göring , Hermann Göring's brother , who saved dozens of Jews from death during the Second World War . The relationship between the brothers is in the foreground and is illustrated by five historically documented scenes. It was first broadcast on January 10, 2016 on Das Erste .
The docu-drama was produced in collaboration with Vincent TV and Norddeutscher Rundfunk and was filmed in April 2015 primarily in Bückeburg and at various locations in Wolfenbüttel . The film was funded by the Nordmedia Fund in Lower Saxony and Bremen .
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In the filmic part of the documentary play, Hermann and Albert Göring meet in five scenes that are historically documented. At one of these meetings, which takes place in 1935, Hermann asks his brother, who is two years his junior, for help for the actress Henny Porten, whose husband is Jewish. When he met in December 1944, Hermann Göring had to protect his little brother from the Gestapo , which had been spying on him for a long time and threatened with death. On May 13, 1945, Hermann and Albert Göring saw each other for the last time in American captivity. The game scenes complement interviews with Albert Göring's daughter, his stepdaughter and the children of those who were rescued. There is also an interview with Irena Steinfeldt , the head of the Department of Righteous Among the Nations at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem .
Reviews
“Anna Schudt as big-eyed Emmy Göring and Natalia Wörner as film star Henny Porten are convincing in supporting roles. [...] Unfortunately, such gimmicks stand in strange contrast to woodcut-like scenes. [...] On the other hand, morphine and medals are shown in another scene. The nurse, who has just given the addict another syringe, puts the handle in her hand with an officer who is already carrying the pillow with the medals. A not unbroken, but quite banal evil in the Arendtian sense, whose vanities and cruelties unfortunately take up a lot of the space in this film that would actually have been granted to the "good Göring". "
“All of this seems finely chiseled, and it is equipped with dialogues (book: Jörg Brückner, Gerhard Spörl), with a feel for contemporary language, trying to figure out what it was like: seeing the enemy in one's brother and yet remaining part of a family . Natalia Wörner appears as the film star Henny Porten, Anna Schudt as Hermann's second wife Emmy Sonnemann gives a brilliant performance as a spouse who turns a blind eye to what her husband really does. And yet the scenes under the direction of Kai Christiansen remain strangely lifeless. They appear arranged like experimental set-ups - perhaps because they want to stay close to the historical material, of whose origin, type and scope we unfortunately do not learn anything. [...] The statements of contemporary witnesses are more impressive. Albert Göring's daughter remembers an elusive father, children of rescued people like the elderly George Pilzer speak of someone who is admired, a hero. [...] “The good Göring” only touches on most of it. But the cooperation and opposition between the brothers also provides material for more than one film. "
“What a chance there was to portray the struggle between good and evil in a somewhat historically secure manner as a fictional chamber play about a brotherly dispute. Encounters between Hermann, born in 1893, and his youngest brother Albert (1895–1966) are historically documented. The North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) took it. Director Kai Christiansen ("A blind hero - The love of Otto Weidt") has been shown to be a cautious director of poignant Nazi tragedies, and the scriptwriters Jörg Brückner and Gerhard Spörl created a clever documentary game. "
Web links
- The good Goering in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Press kit NDR
- Good Goering at Phoenix
Individual evidence
- ^ The good Göring> Criticism , Spiegel Online
- ↑ Critique of The Good Goering , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- ↑ Review of The Good Goering , Der Tagesspiegel