Dresden (film)

Movie
Original title	Dresden
Country of production	Germany
original language	German , English
Publishing year	2006
length	177, 145 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
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
Felicitas Woll : Anna Mauth Benjamin Sadler : Dr. Alexander Wenninger John Light : Robert Newman Heiner Lauterbach : Dr. Carl Mauth Susanne Bormann : Eva Mauth Marie Bäumer : Maria Goldberg Kai Wiesinger : Simon Goldberg Wolfgang Stumph : Pastor of the Frauenkirche Michael Brandner : Block warden Andreas Guenther : 1. Feldgendarm Jürgen Heinrich : GL Martin Mutschmann John Keogh : Lt. Leslie Katharina Meinecke : Magda Mauth Marc-Oliver Moro : Soldier Sandra Nedeleff : Jewish woman Paul Ready : William Gabriela Maria Schmeide : wife

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 fire brigade association Possendorf had given its Granit 30 phenomenon (built in 1939) a gray paint job for the shooting .

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

1. ↑ The phenomenon. Feuerwehrverein Possendorf eV, archived from the original on August 23, 2013 ; Retrieved November 23, 2013 . 
2. ^ The ZDF in the 50-year quota check , meedia.de, accessed on September 17, 2017