Dresden (film)
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Original title | Dresden |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German , English |
Publishing year | 2006 |
length | 177, 145 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Roland Suso Richter |
script | Stefan Kolditz |
production |
Nico Hofmann , Nikolaus Kraemer , Sascha Schwingel |
music |
Harald Kloser , Thomas Wander |
camera | Holly Fink |
cut | Bernd Schlegel |
occupation | |
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Dresden (alternative title: Dresden - das Inferno ) is a television film from 2006 in which historically established facts of the air raids on Dresden in February 1945 were linked with a fictional story.
The film was broadcast for the first time in two parts on March 5 and 6, 2006 on ZDF . The broadcasting rights have been sold to broadcasters in several countries such as the United States , the United Kingdom , France , Spain , Italy , Japan , Poland , Greece , Croatia , Serbia , Thailand and the Special Broadcasting Service in Australia .
There is also a one-part version of 145 minutes (theatrical version) , which was first broadcast on May 5, 2010.
action
The Dresden nurse Anna Mauth, who made a promise to the surgeon Alexander Wenninger, falls in love with Robert Newman, a downed British bomber pilot who has sought refuge in the hospital where she works.
Anna's father, the director of the hospital , steals a large amount of morphine , which is intended for the care of the wounded, in order to finance his new private practice in Switzerland with the proceeds . Wenninger knows what has happened and supports him, albeit with a guilty conscience.
Because of the bomb attack on Dresden, Anna's family failed to flee Dresden; Anna, Robert and Wenninger experience the firestorm together. In the epilogue , Anna tells that Robert dies shortly after the end of the war, before their daughter is born, in a plane crash over the North Sea.
The film ends with original recordings of the rededication of the Dresden Frauenkirche .
Filming
The original title of the film was Der Brand . The shooting, which began in 2005 in Dresden Neustadt , at Neustadt train station and in other Dresden locations such as Theaterplatz and on Fürstenzug , was continued in Chemnitz and in the former Leipzig- Dosen Park Hospital as well as on an industrial site in Cologne , to create larger fire scenarios in outdoor studios how to recreate the firestorm.
Audience ratings
The first broadcast brought ZDF an above-average 12.66 million and 11.29 million viewers.
Awards
- 2006: German television award in the category of best television film / multi-parter
- 2007: Jupiter in the Best TV Feature Film category
Web links
- www.dresden-der-film.de - Official website
- Dresden in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dresden at filmportal.de
- "Heart-Pain War Drama - From Auschwitz to 'Dresden': What a TV Event Movie Tells About" , film review by Rüdiger Suchsland in the online magazine Telepolis , March 7, 2006
Footnotes
- ↑ The phenomenon. Feuerwehrverein Possendorf eV, archived from the original on August 23, 2013 ; Retrieved November 23, 2013 .
- ^ The ZDF in the 50-year quota check , meedia.de, accessed on September 17, 2017