The standard
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The standard |
| Country of production | Austria , Germany , Spain |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ottokar Runze |
| script | Herbert Asmodi |
| production | Ottokar Runze |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Michael Epp |
| cut | Tamara Karabetian |
| occupation | |
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Die Standarte is an Austrian-German-Spanish co-production film drama by Ottokar Runze from 1977 based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Lernet-Holenia .
action
First World War , last year of war 1918. The end of the war is looming. The young ensign Herbert Menis experiences his first love with the young lady-in-waiting, Resa Lang, and a little later he has to watch his ideals being shattered piece by piece: a whole regiment of Ruthenian, Polish and Galician soldiers began to mutinate and oppose their military superiors and thus to rebel against the imperial family . Menis receives the regimental standard from the hand of a dying comrade, the symbol of the declining Habsburg Empire .
With the receipt of the standard, the ensign is from now on about more than life and death: it is about honor - his and that of the fatherland. And so he saves the standard over and over again during an adventurous return from the battlefield to Vienna. Once there, it was autumn. Menis witnesses the emperor leaving the palace to go into exile. Too late, the ensign realizes the futility of all his previous activities: his regiment no longer exists, many of his comrades have fallen. His ideals are broken. And so ends the symbol of his military duty, which he has so far doggedly defended and honored - the standard: In a blazing fireplace of the imperial castle.
Production notes
Two Hamburg , two Viennese , one Berlin and one Madrid production company were involved in this international co- production.
The film was shot over 40 days between October 14th and December 15th 1976 in Oropesa , Tarancón (both Spain ) and Vienna.
The world premiere took place on November 25, 1977 in Freiburg's Kandelhof. The film opened in 1978 in the co-producing countries of Austria and Spain (there under the title La última bandera ).
In addition to the British Simon Ward , Jon Finch and Peter Cushing , director Runze also hired an impressive group of old stars of German-language film for guest roles, including Lil Dagover , Viktor Staal , Wolfgang Preiss , Rudolf Prack , Friedrich von Ledebur , Erik Frey as well as Hans Thimig and Werner Fuetterer , who was here for the last time in front of the camera.
The film structures and costumes were designed by Peter Scharff . The production line had Otto Boris Dworak .
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films wrote: "A large-scale historical film [...] whose flat form lags far behind the literary intentions of the novel as well as that of the director."
Kay Wenigers The film's great lexicon of people called Die Standarte Runzes "An excursion into the literary, international star cinema"
Web links
- The script in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The standard at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 7, p. 3585. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 680.