The Wall - Berlin '61
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Wall - Berlin '61 |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Hartmut Schoen |
| script | Hartmut Schoen |
| production | Ariane Krampe |
| music | Matthias Frey |
| camera | Tomas Erhart |
| cut | Vessela Martschewski |
| occupation | |
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Die Mauer - Berlin '61 is a German television film by screenwriter and director Hartmut Schoen from 2006. The film was sold in over 70 countries by 2009.
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The East Berlin couple Hans and Katharina Kuhlke attended the birthday party of a furniture dealer friend, Erwin Sawatzke and his wife Renate, in the western part of the city . Her fourteen-year-old son Paul stayed alone with a friend in the East Berlin apartment that evening.
At the celebration, the couple learned that soldiers were blocking the roads and public transport to the east. The city is divided. The Kuhlkes cannot return regularly. Hans had regularly smuggled small amounts of copper. The day before he escaped a control on the commuter train, but had to leave his bag with the contraband and a shirt with his name in the collar.
An attempt to swim across the border that same evening fails. Your photos appear in the press.
They find their first refuge with the Sawatzkes. Hans and Katharina, completely penniless, only with the clothes on their bodies that they wore on the evening of the celebration, are dependent on Erwin's goodwill. Erwin takes advantage of the plight of the two. As a debt collector for Erwin, Hans cuts a pathetic figure. Katharina gives in to Erwin's erotic wishes for money for a lawyer. The lawyer is supposed to bring Paul to the West.
Katharina and Hans try everything to get their son to live with them by legal means in the West. When Hans learns of Erwin's request for money in exchange for physical “service”, the couple leaves the Sawatzkes and takes quarters in the Marienfelde emergency reception center .
Because they left their son Paul behind, the Kuhlkes are branded as bad parents by the GDR state. Paul is placed in a children's home and an exemplary DDR FDJ 'ler and constructed pioneer. After a while he can escape. He is found and accepted by his piano teacher Lavinia Kellermann.
While Hans Kuhlke is becoming more and more resigned - the simple construction worker is overwhelmed by the struggle with laws and authorities and suffers extremely from the separation from his child - his wife Katharina takes over the reins and visits the border crossing that the family regularly uses every day Has. After accidental eye contact with his mother, the boy desperately wants to find a way to meet his parents.
With the help of his piano teacher, Paul hides in a house whose rear facades lead directly to the west. The windows on the lower floors are already bricked up, only the second floor would be an escape route. Paul is already sitting on the windowsill when Katharina, who is standing with Hans downstairs on the west side, means “Don't jump!” Hans, who sees an opportunity to get his child back in the face of the situation, immediately regains his vigor and alerts the fire brigade . At the last moment, however, people's police force their way into the room and stop the attempt to escape. The family is torn apart for 28 years. When they meet again after the fall of the Berlin Wall, they are strangers.
Reviews
"Hartmut Schoen has succeeded in making a great film that is appropriate for the memorable occasion, and which is also extremely well cast down to the small supporting roles."
"On the basis of a brilliant intro, the moving, brilliantly played tragedy of simple people, who get caught up in world politics, unfolds."
“ The Wall - Berlin '61 touches and traces the fate of a family during the division of Germany. [...] unusually complex [s] work from the event movie forge teamWorx [...] "
Awards
- Emmy Award 2007, finalist
- Prix Europa 2007
- Int. TV Award (Silver Olive), Montenegro 2006
- International Television Broadcasting Award 2008: World Medal
- German Camera Prize Cologne for Tomas Erhart
- Jupiter Film Award 2008 best TV actor for Heino Ferch for the role of Hans Kuhlke
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Die Mauer - Berlin '61 was shown on German television for the first time on September 29, 2006 from 8:40 p.m. on ARTE ; ARD showed the film for the first time on October 4, 2006 at 8:15 p.m. in the first TV program .
Web links
- Die Mauer - Berlin '61 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ kino.de, accessed on April 24, 2008
- ^ The Wall - Berlin '61 in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 24, 2008
- ^ Spiegel.de culture