The hunt for the boot

Movie
Original title	The hunt for the boot
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1962
length	85 minutes
Rod
Director	Konrad Petzold
script	Hans-Albert Pederzani Konrad Petzold Dieter Scharfenberg (Dramaturgy)
production	DEFA , KAG "concrete"
music	Günter Hauk
camera	Siegfried Hönicke
cut	Use Peters
occupation
Gerry Wolff : Schuster Friedberg Günter Naumann : Kurt Büttner Raimund Schelcher : Julius Gemse Stefan Lisewski : Ernst Schiemann Peter Kiwitt : Commissioner Huschke Siegfried Kilian : Policeman Kruger Paul Berndt : Hans Müller Werner Senftleben : Karl Bullrich Hannes Fischer : Police advisor cliché Heinz Schröder : Storm Leader Persch Werner Lierck : Atze Weber Paul Streckfuss : Comrade with a peaked cap Liska Merbach : Karenke Nico Turoff : Wilhelm Lammers Wilhelm Otto Eckhardt : shooting gallery owner Paul Funk : Justice sergeant Horst Papke : Fat SA man Werner Pfeifer : SA man Siglinde Grunwald : neighbor Ursula Am-Ende : woman with curlers Hildegard Friese : Mrs. Bullrich Ingrid Barkmann : German guy Hans Flössel : Doctor Walter E. Fuß : Hubalek Bodo Schmidt : man of the homicide squad Wolfgang Böhme / Mathias Böhme : Jack Büttner Ursula Hertting : Gerda Karin Kreiner : Fanny

The Hunt for the Boot is a children's film by director Konrad Petzold , produced by the DEFA studio for feature films , which premiered on August 14, 1962 in the Berlin cosmos . The film was officially released on August 17, 1962. The film is based on Max Zimmering 's successful youth book of the same name .

action

A fight broke out between KPD and SA men during the 1932 Reichstag election . On the same day in the evening one of those involved, the KPD man Ernst “Juhle” Schiemann, is found dead. When the police find a manslaughter on his comrade Büttner's, they accuse him of murder. Because his son Jack does not believe that his father is a murderer, he sets off with his friends, who call themselves red neckties , in search of the real culprit. They use the imprint of the sole of a boot, which can only come from the murderer. The search dogs with Fritz, the son of a police inspector, try to hinder the already laborious and time-consuming search . Ultimately, however, the red ties are successful and the actual murderer who brought his boot to the cobbler can be convicted of the act. SA man Müller and his companion Bullrich are handed over to the police; Büttner is acquitted.

Reviews

"An excitingly narrated film adaptation of the literature with a lot of local Berlin flavor and a clear political partisanship that does not affect the tension."

- Lexicon of international film

Others

The book on which the film is based was part of the school literature of the GDR until 1989.

However, the film differs from the original in many ways. The group opposing the red ties is not called "sniffer dogs" but "Lederwamsler", whose leader is not the son of the police inspector, but a chocolate manufacturer; In a sense, he buys his following with chocolate, which was something luxurious for children at the time.

While the investigation of the "red neckties" is supposed to be hindered by the "sniffer dogs" in the film, the book is simply about a rivalry between two groups in a school class.

In the film, Fanny has no sister and is the daughter of a shoemaker; in this case the boot also appears. In the book, however, Fanny has a twin sister, Rosel, and her father is a Jewish master tailor. Again in the film a sister of Gerda appears, but she does not exist in the book.

While in the film the police suspect that Jack's father is the murderer, there is no specific suspect in the book.

Web links

• The hunt for the boots in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The hunt for the boot at DEFA-Sternstunden
• The hunt for the boot at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Hunt for the Boot. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .