The heirs

Movie
Original title	The heirs
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1982
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Walter Bannert
script	Walter Bannert, Erich A. Richter
production	Chris D. Nebe
camera	Hanus Polak
cut	Walter Bannert
occupation
Nikolas Vogel : Thomas Feigl Roger Schauer : Charly Wolfgang Gasser : Norbert Fürst Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard : Thomas' mother Jaromír Borek : Thomas' father Ottwald John : Instructor in the camp Helmut Kahn : Speaker at the rally Edd Stavjanik : Silent Kurt Jaggberg : Teacher Evelyn Faber Gerhard Swoboda Frank Dietrich : Charly's father Johanna Tomek : Charly's mother Hjalmar Este Bernhard Werner Alexander Wussow Klaus Novak : Seriously Gabriele Bolen : Charly's girlfriend Nadja Etzler Tit Kraus : Anna Rudi Schippel Harry Hornisch Michael Janisch : Gunther Dagmar Schwarz Maria Lussnig Helma Rusow Max unit Herbert Gnauer Hans Zemba Günther Treptow Alexander Berg Günther Rupp Heinz Schönherr Claudia Zeischka Babsi List Gerald Distl Sascha Stein Radica Jovicic : Michelle

Die Erben is an Austrian film directed by Walter Bannert in 1982 .

action

The two sixteen-year-olds Thomas and Charly are two friends from broken family backgrounds. You join the National Unity Party. However, when they were reprimanded by the party leadership after retaliation against an anti-fascist bar, they resigned and joined the neo-Nazi military combat group "Youth Protection", where they were trained in firearms, among other things. After Charly's sister was raped by her father, the two youngsters look for him in his local bar, where he is shot by Thomas.

publication

The release of the film was accompanied by threats from right-wing extremists. These were aimed both at Bannert personally and at various cinema operators. Many cinemas then removed the film from their programs for safety reasons.

The film was only released as a VHS cassette in Austria and Germany. A DVD only exists in the USA and contains a version (taken from the American VHS cassette) with several censorship cuts.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film describes Die Erben as a "thematically important film, which, however, with its many clichés remains ambivalent."

Karsten Witte von der Zeit , on the other hand, wrote: “Anyone who considers Bannert's detailed description of neo-Nazi activities to be exaggerated or even invented should take a look at the newspaper. […] Bannert's realistic staging emphasizes the most dangerous and at the same time the least visible activities of the old and new Nazis [,] […] respectable older men who patiently win the trust of young people and only gradually become ideological. "

Christian Schultz-Gerstein described the film in the Spiegel as an imposition: “The audience is forced to look the right-wing mythical creature in the human eye. Not a pretty sight. Because the neo-Nazis are just as dead and numb and indifferent to the rest of the world like the other survival robots in this society. "

Awards

In 1984 Walter Bannert won the Young Director Jury Prize at the World Film Festival in Montreal .

Web links

• The heirs in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Drastic present . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1984 ( online ).
2. ↑ The heirs. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 29, 2016 .  
3. ↑ Karsten Witte: " In the cinema ", in the ZEIT of November 25, 1983 (accessed on April 18, 2009)
4. ^ Christian Schultz-Gerstein: Overstimulated robots . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1983 ( online ).