The flag of Krivoy Rog (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The flag of Krivoy Rog |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Maetzig |
| script | Hans-Albert Pederzani |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Berlin" |
| music | Gerhard Rosenfeld |
| camera |
Erich Gusko Roland Dressel |
| cut | Brigitte Krex |
| occupation | |
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Die Fahne von Krivoy Rog is a German feature film by Kurt Maetzig from 1967. It is based on the novel of the same name by Otto Gotsche , which is based on real events.
action
The film begins in 1945. Various characters in the film, among them the Brosowskis, carry the “ Krivoy Rog flag ” against the Soviet troops amidst German tank wrecks . This scene is taken up again and again and prepares the viewer for a new narrative perspective. The storytellers are all in the Brosowski family.
The first look back to the year 1929 to Gerbstedt in the Mansfelder Land , a mining area in the Prussian province of Saxony , today in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . Otto Brosowski sen. is instructed to write a letter to the Soviet pals in Krivoy Rog and describe their working conditions to them. Because of this authorship, he is harassed by his employer, Mansfeld AG , and fired on an excuse.
A short time later, Brosowski sen. an answer from the buddies from the Soviet Union . A flag of the local mining combine is enclosed. From now on, it will have great symbolic power among the people of the city and will be shown on various occasions, so u. a. at the funeral of the local communist party secretary who was killed in an SA attack.
Illegality, flight, torture and fear of the National Socialist terror are portrayed as well as the constant hiding of the flag, which only reappears in the post-war period and has to be defended one last time. This time against the American occupation forces .
production
The shooting took place in the copper slate district in Mansfeld , among other places . The film premiered on October 25, 1967 in Eisleben's Capitol cinema and was released in GDR cinemas on October 27, 1967. On May 8, 1970, the film was shown on DFF 1 for the first time on East German television and was released on DVD in 2008.
criticism
Contemporary critics noted that the film "[was] artistically successful in showing the roots of this traditional friendship [with the Soviet Union] [...]"; In addition, the film's "highly enjoyable ... spirit and tone" was highlighted. "In the wake of Jutkewitsch's Lenin in Poland , the individual and private are given unusual colors: the supporting figures present themselves with odd corners and edges", so the film review .
Frank-Burkhard Habel found that, despite the ideologically tinged book, the film “conveys a carefully observed picture of working-class families in the central German industrial area [; he] has both pathos and humor and is influenced by the documentary style. ”Klaus Wischnewski also wrote that scenarioist Hans-Albert Pederzani and director Kurt Maetzig [shot] the film for a long time in a“ documentary style ”, despite some of the agitational parts heard sincerely and believable. Here, too: German history from below, with retouching from a new perspective from above. ”For the film-dienst , The Flag of Krivoy Rog was “ a predominantly impressive and historically informative film that shaped its propaganda theme in a human way. ”
Awards
The film received the rating “Particularly valuable” in the GDR. In 1967 the Krivoy Rog flag was awarded the film prize of the youth magazine New Life .
The film collective of Die Fahne von Krivoy Rog - Kurt Maetzig (director), Hans-Albert Pederzani (scenarioist), Erwin Geschonneck (leading actor), Marga Legal (leading actress) and Erich Gusko (cameraman) - was awarded the national prize on October 3, 1968 of the GDR for art and literature, 1st class, awarded.
literature
- Thomas Beutelschmidt: "The flag of Krivoy Rog." Materials on the adaptation history of a canon text of early GDR literature . In: Thomas Beutelschmidt, Rüdiger Steinlein: Constructions of Reality, Fascism and Antifascism in the literary adaptations of GDR television . Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2004, pp. 53-100.
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 156-157 .
Web links
- Flag of Krivoy Rog in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The flag of Krivoy Rog at filmportal.de
- The flag of Krivoy Rog at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gert Billing: Journal about a film . In: Weltbühne , No. 47, 1967.
- ↑ Helmut Regel in: Filmkritik , No. 9, 1969.
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 157 .
- ^ Klaus Wischnewski: Dreamers and Ordinary People 1966 to 1979 . In: Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 216.
- ↑ The flag of Krivoy Rog. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See the flag of Krivoy Rog on progress-film.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See the flag of Krivoy Rog on defa.de.
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