The last year

Movie
Original title	The last year
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1951
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler , Hans Heinrich
script	Richard Nicolas
production	DEFA
music	Horst Hans Sieber
camera	Karl Plintzner
cut	Anneliese Schlueter
occupation
Hans Klering : Heini Holler Inge Keller : Charly Hermann Stövesand : Ferdinand Peter Marx : Schorsch Gustav Püttjer : Gustav Gerd Frickhöffer : Blague Otto Stübler : Consul Reinhard Kolldehoff : Commissioner Lutz Götz : Moulin Peter Lehmbrock : 1st stoker Hans Rose : 2nd stoker Werner Pledath : Captain Herbert Richter : Boatswain Hans Fiebrandt : Gestapo officer Möller Wolf Kaiser : Long SS man Peter Petersz : Secretary Johannes Knittel : Secretary of the ISH Anna-Maria Besendahl : Mrs. Primm Martin Rickelt : German sailor Willi Narloch : Spanish interpreter Frank Michelis : French warehouse worker Nico Turoff : French sailor in the "Laughing Shark" Johannes Bergfeldt : Dutch seaman Erich Nadler : Irish seaman

The last of the year is a GDR movie from 1951 in which the struggle of seafarers against National Socialism in Germany is described. The novel of the same name by Ludwig Turek served as a template .

action

The stoker Heini Holler fell ill in 1935 while his ship was in Greece. He scrutinizes and reports to the local German consulate . There he is sent to Bremerhaven on board a German steamer . Little does he know that a telegram to the GeStaPo is ahead of him.

Upon his arrival, Holler was arrested by the GeStaPo as "politically suspicious". His comrades then kidnap the consul as a hostage on a smuggler's yacht. Through this solidarity action, with the help of the International Seamen's Union, Hollers will be able to travel to the Soviet Union .

Production and publication

The film was made in the Berlin-Johannisthal studio with exterior shots of the Baltic Sea. Shortly after production began in 1951, Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler took over the direction of Hans Heinrich , who had been arrested on suspicion of espionage. Artur Günther and Wilhelm Depenau were responsible for the buildings, while Eduard Kubat was in charge of production .

The cinema premiere was on April 12, 1951 in the Berlin cinemas Babylon and DEFA-Filmtheater Kastanienallee . The television first broadcast took place in the program of the German television station on Friday, September 25, 1953.

Reviews

The Lexicon of International Films writes:

“Exciting entertainment with approaches to atmospheric density. The obvious cardboard backdrops of the episodes set in the south of France are particularly disturbing. "

In the Neue Zeit , Ro:

“Some dispensable ingredients, some external effects impair the overall positive impression. Such as the annoying appearance of a revolver twice, such as the apparently inevitable storm on the high seas in sailor films including the associated 'man overboard', so the garish, noisy music. The camera disproportionately favors the close-up and thus blurs the accents of the plot. "

Awards

Among other things, for directing this film, Fiedler received the National Prize of the GDR III in 1951 . Art and literature class.

literature

• Ludwig Turek: "The last wage" , military publisher of the German Democratic Republic Berlin, 1950
• "Lexicon of International Films" , Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek, 1995, ISBN 978-3-499-16357-9 (page 3356)
• "The second life of the film city Babelsberg" , Henschelverlag Berlin, 1994, ISBN 978-3-89487-175-8
• F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 252-253 .

Web links

• The last Heuer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The last year at filmportal.de
• The last year with the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The last year. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 7, 2018 .  
2. ↑ Neue Zeit of April 13, 1951, p. 4