You and many a comrade
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | You and many a comrade |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Andrew Thorndike and Annelie Thorndike |
| script | Annelie Thorndike, Andrew Thorndike, Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler , Günther Rücker |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Paul Dessau |
| camera |
Kurt Stanke (admissions) , Waldemar Ruge (RETAKE.) , Ernst Kunstmann (trick) , Vera Kunstmann (trick) |
| cut | Ella Ulrich |
You and some fellow is a German documentary of DDR -Filmproduktionsgesellschaft DEFA , which directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike created and premiered 1956th Until the 1960s, the film could not be shown in the Federal Republic because it was subject to film censorship .
content
As a compilation film, the film traces 60 years of German history - starting in the 1890s - using predominantly documentary film material. The two world wars are presented as outstanding events. The film also goes into detail about the social situations before, between and after the world wars.
production
You and some comrades were created at DEFA in the VEB DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries in Berlin-Johannisthal . The production time was two years, under the direction of the directors around 50 employees worked on the film. In the course of researching the film, one and a half million meters of film were viewed, which corresponds to a running time of more than 910 hours at normal playback speed.
Walter Fuchs (restoration), Joachim Lubnau (restoration), Rudolf Ehrlich (reproductions) and Harry Kadoch (reproductions) are working on the restoration and filming of the original materials.
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler and Günther Rücker wrote the comment, Mathilde Danegger and Gerry Wolff were the speakers .
In the original version, the film is 2848 meters long, which corresponds to around 103 minutes of playback time. It premiered on August 31, 1956 in the Babylon film theater in Berlin .
criticism
The film is accused, among other things, of giving out all the material shown as documentary recordings. This impression is reinforced by a plaque at the beginning of the film that says: "Every recording is a historically verifiable document". Image and sound recordings specially made for the film, as well as feature film and other non-documentary sequences from external sources, were mixed with documentary material without any labeling. This creates the impression, especially for viewers with today's viewing habits, that all the material shown is original recordings.
Among other things, game recordings of a speech by Friedrich Engels , which he gave in 1893, i.e. two years before the invention of the film, or dubbed recordings of speeches by Kaiser Wilhelm II no longer meet today's requirements for the authenticity of a document . The media scientist Tilo Prase called the film in the FAZ "[a] piece of work about war and peace, about the alleged causes and originators of the First and Second World Wars [which was celebrated in the East] as a 'factual report'" and in the "For the purpose of sustainable history education [...] game scenes were created as 'film documents'".
Awards
- 1956: National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class
Web links
- You and some comrades on filmportal.de
- You and some comrade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- You and many a comrade at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ filmportal.de : database entry on you and some comrades , accessed on December 16, 2016.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland : nd-Shop - The Russian Miracle including “You and some comrade” , accessed on December 16, 2016.
- ↑ filmportal.de : database entry on you and some comrades , accessed on December 16, 2016.
- ↑ "You and some comrade" premiered . In: Neues Deutschland , September 2, 1956.
- ↑ Tilo Prase: The silent film is running, the voice actor barks. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 23, 2004, accessed on December 16, 2016.