The Rebel (film)

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Movie
Original title The rebel
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 275 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ute Wieland
script Christian Jeltsch ,
Monika Peetz
production Susanne Freyer
music Oliver Biehler ,
Moe Jaksch
camera Jan Fehse
cut Dunja Campregher
occupation

Die Rebellin is a three-part television film by Christian Jeltsch and Monika Peetz from 2009.

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The fictional plot is based on the real historical events around the development of the German standard television receiver E 1 . The father of Lena, who was already a technology enthusiast as a child, Gustav Berkow, is an engineer in the radio laboratories on the grounds of the Hakeburg . He died while fleeing from war-torn Berlin. Shortly before, he had sold his invention, supposedly an improved successor to the E 1, to a radio manufacturer in southern Germany. Before his death he gives Lena a notebook with the name Sattler on it. This man is said to owe Lena's father money for this technical development.

Lena finds shelter on a farm with her sick mother Hilde and her sister Betty. She looks for Sattler and finally finds him in the Sattler works in Fürth , a radio factory that did good business with war-essential products in the Third Reich. Lena manages to get in touch with the saddlers. Since the Sattler-Werke did not receive a distribution license for radios from the Allies, they sold easy-to-assemble kits similar to the Radio Man , with which it was possible after the war to sell radios bypassing the Allied restrictions. The charming Hans Sattler travels through the country as a general agent and meets Lena by chance. She falls head over heels in love with the factory owner's son. His father Wilhelm, who is reminiscent of Max Grundig , kept the circuit documents that were given to him by Gustav Berkow in his villa. Lena now gets to this after Hans' missing brother Peter has surprisingly returned.

But Lena's mother destroys this important leverage against Sattler, and Lena cannot now use the expected financial proceeds to procure legally unavailable penicillin for her sister Betty, who is seriously injured in an explosion in a monastery hospital.

Walter Juskowiak comes to her aid. Only when the Sattler works was finally refused the production license for political reasons, Sattler hired Lena as a radio technician, who gave her unencumbered name for a new company. Lena and Hans get married and have a daughter, Stella. At a trade fair, Lena meets Möbius, who denies Berkow's invention of a new television receiver. She could only learn the truth from her mother. Before Lena wants to ask her mother about what happened at the time, she burns old photos of Möbius and letters. In doing so, she sets the whole house on fire and kills herself.

Now Lena wants to concentrate fully on training to become a television technician. Hans spends most of his time building the "Stellaris" television set factory. Because televisions are too expensive for the mass market and sales stall, Wilhelm Sattler decides to turn off the money.

The Federal Republic is now a sovereign state, the Sattler-Werke are once again allowed to produce radio and television sets without restriction, and Wilhelm Sattler no longer needs Lena, whom he once gave his word to employ her in a managerial position after successfully completing her degree. Bronsky suggests using his good contacts to prevent Lena from passing the exam. Sattler falls into a coma after a serious accident caused by his son and Hans takes over the management.

Lena is obsessively developing a new, cheaper model of her television set in order to be able to conquer the mass market. Because she works so much and they also have financial worries, the marriage gets into crisis. A distribution contract signed by Lena with a mail order company and the delivery dates guaranteed in it, as well as a workers' strike, add to the crisis. When Lena grants the workers a share in the profits, Bronsky asserts that he gets a general power of attorney from the slowly recovering saddler, and so he fires Hans without notice, who then drinks more and more and finally wants to kill himself, but this fails.

Lena wants to come to terms with her father and travels with Peter Sattler to the GDR in Kleinmachnow to look around the Hakeburg, which is now a SED party college . There she learns that under Möbius' leadership, her father did not develop a television receiver, but weapon technology. She can only find out the truth for herself from Möbius, who now has a new name and is an American citizen and is a military advisor to the young federal government. Lena's brother-in-law finds out that Möbius is in Germany at a congress. Both drive there, and Lena learns from Möbius that E 2 is not a further developed E 1, but the name of the secret development program for image transmission systems for guided bombs that he and Berkow were working on.

Lena also learns that Möbius, not Berkow, is Lena's biological father and that Möbius bought a new life for himself with the knowledge of the weapons development at the time in the US government. At the instigation of Sattler's former colleague Olga Schmitt, Lena one day receives an invitation to America , where she is supposed to present her invention, a remote control. When she comes to New York , she experiences a surprise: the entrepreneur who invited her is Walter Juskowiak, who also offers Lena a job in his company. In Germany, Wilhelm Sattler wants to persuade his son to take over the company after all. Hans declines because this position is due to Lena. He makes his way to New York to win Lena back.

Lena, Hans and Stella meet again at the Empire State Building , where Lena wanted to start a paper plane with her (step) father as a child .

Historical circumstances

The development of the German standard television receiver E 1 took place in the years 1938 to 1939. In addition, the Central Office of the German Reichspost formed together with the companies Fernseh AG ( Bosch / Blaupunkt ), Radio AG DS Loewe , C. Lorenz AG , TeKaDe and Telefunken GmbH a working group. After the Reichspost research institute, which was formerly located in Berlin-Tempelhof, moved to the Kleinmachnower Seeberg in 1938 - on the 44-hectare area around the Hakeburg, the residence of Reichspostminister Wilhelm Ohnesorge , acquired by the Reichspost in 1936 , a new research center was set up for the military-relevant projects built high-frequency technology, radar, radio espionage and television - the working group was supposed to develop an inexpensive television receiver there, which was to be put on the market by Christmas 1939, which did not happen because of the outbreak of war.

Locations

The film was shot in the Czech Republic and Italy (scenes from Lena and Hans' honeymoon). Most of the outdoor shots took place in Bohemia . In the Tepl monastery near Marienbad , scenes were filmed that take place in a “monastery near Fürth 1952”. Most of the interior shots were made in the Barrandov film studios in Prague .

The series episodes

(EA = first broadcast)

  • Part 1, 90 min., EA January 5, 2009
  • Part 2, 90 min., EA January 7, 2009
  • Part 3, 95 min., EA January 11, 2009

Awards

Anna Fischer was a. a. Awarded the German Television Prize 2009 for Best Actress (Supporting Role) for the portrayal of Betty Berkow .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Rebel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, November 2011 (PDF; Part 1).
  2. ^ Certificate of Release for The Rebel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, November 2011 (PDF; Part 2).
  3. ^ Certificate of Release for The Rebel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, November 2011 (PDF; Part 3).