The penultimate act
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The penultimate act |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 70 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Krüttner |
| script | Walter Krüttner |
| production | Cineropafilm |
| music | Hans Krása |
| camera | Alois Nožička |
| occupation | |
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Boys and girls of the Prague Children's Choir "Troy" | |
The penultimate act is a German documentary by Walter Krüttner from 1965. It was shown for the first time in 1965 on ARD .
content
The focus of the documentary is a performance of the children's opera Brundibár , which was written by the Czech multi-talent Adolf Hoffmeister (libretto) and the Czech-German composer Hans Krása in Prague in 1938 and had its premiere six years later in the Theresienstadt concentration camp . The work was performed by imprisoned Jewish children after months of rehearsals. In total, they made around 50 performances.
Another 21 years later the boys and girls of the Prague children's choir "Troja" performed the opera again. The West German short and documentary film director Walter Krüttner filmed this performance for television and gave it a new framework: Interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses as well as documentary recordings of the “new” Theresienstadt shed light on the genesis of the opera, shed light on the time background and tried to use an exemplary example of the To describe the immense tragedy that took place in this city at the time. Krüttner's documentary pursues two goals: reporting and warning as well as informing and remembering, that is, when playing, the information that becomes an experience should turn into accusation and warning.
criticism
The Evangelical Film-Observer draws the following conclusion: A moving document that would be shortened but even more convincing. With an appropriate introduction, this film should be used primarily in adult and youth education work. The Lexicon of International Films notes succinctly: impressive and harrowing. The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency gave the strip the title “Particularly valuable”.
Web links
- The penultimate act in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 437/1966, pp. 793 to 794
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4165