The three faces of Tamara Bunke
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| Original title | The three faces of Tamara Bunke |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
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| Director | Helmuth Ashley |
| script | Hellmut Andics |
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The three faces of Tamara Bunke is a West German TV movie of 1971 , the life of Tamara Bunke reconstructed this that in August 1967 as a member of the guerrilla movement of Che Guevara in Bolivia in an ambush of the army was ran and shot. It was first broadcast on October 8, 1971 on ZDF .
action
Tamara Bunke, born in Argentina , grew up in the GDR and is an enthusiastic communist . Since she speaks fluent Spanish, she is recruited by the Soviet secret service KGB to work as an agent in Cuba . Here she joins Che Guevara and logistically prepares the arrival of Guevara and his guerrilla group in Bolivia , which, against the will of the Bolivian Communist Party and its leader Mario Monje , wants to carry out the revolution . Tamara wears the legend Laura Gutiérrez Bauer as camouflage .
In the Bolivian capital La Paz , the French Regis Debray , who wants to support Guevara, contacts her. When her identity is discovered by the Bolivian army, she joins the guerrilla group around Guevara, which operates in two columns. In trying to reach the column Guevara in his area of operation, gets the group of "Tanja" as Tamara calls now, on August 31, 1967 at the Rio Grande into the ambush of a special unit of the Bolivian army. When "Tanja" is up to her waist in the middle of the river, the soldiers open fire from the other side of the river. "Tanja" is fatally hit below the heart, the water around her turns blood red. Her body drifts away and is not found in the river until days later.
Production notes
According to the Hamburger Abendblatt , ZDF editor Claus Legal was made aware of Bunke's death by the death notice from Tamara Bunke's family on October 30, 1967 in New Germany and encouraged the film project.
The film title refers to the three activities that Bunke allegedly carried out: as a “good-looking man trap” in the GDR, as a KGB agent in Havana and as a “combative guerrilla force” in Bolivia. The production was shot in Spain . During the filming, the leading actress Jonasson suffered an accident when the demolition master detonated an explosive charge too early at the “river crossing”, which was supposed to simulate blood from the gunshot wounds (The death of Tamara Bunke). As a result, Jonasson suffered severe burns on his left arm.
It is unclear on what basis the script was created. However, in 1970 Marta Rojas published the Bunke biography Tania, la guerrillera inolvidable ( Tania, the unforgettable guerrillera ) in Havana , which was published in New York in 1971 in English ( Tania, the unforgettable guerrillera ). The German translation Tania, la guerrillera appeared in 1973 in the GDR military publishing house , translated by Nadja Bunke, Tamara Bunke's mother.
As far as is known, the film was never shown again on German television. A DVD edition is not available to date (2017).
criticism
The main reason why the play was more captivating and less stereotypical than Andics' usual documentary was that the events of the time were still so topical.
AK: The death of an unknown guerrilla , in: Nordwest-Zeitung v. October 9, 1971.
Trivia
- In Steven Soderbergh's feature film Che - Guerrilla , Bunke was portrayed by Franka Potente .
literature
- The death of Tamara Bunke , in: Nordwest-Zeitung of October 8, 1971, p. 10.
- The death of an unknown guerrilla , in: Nordwest-Zeitung of October 9, 1971, p. 23.
- Tanja's career ended on the Rio Grande , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from October 8, 1971.