Dutschke (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Dutschke |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Stefan Krohmer |
| script | Daniel Nocke |
| production |
Nico Hofmann Benjamin Benedict |
| music |
Stefan Leisering Axel Reinemer |
| camera |
Bernhard Keller Patrick Orth |
| cut | Boris Gromatzki |
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Dutschke is a German docu-drama directed by Stefan Krohmer from 2009 . The ZDF television film is based on the life of Rudi Dutschke . It was primarily developed on the basis of Dutschke's diaries and the books of Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz . The specialty of the film lies in the discursive approach: Different perspectives and memories are juxtaposed.
action
Based on the political situation in Germany in 1964, the film depicts the rise of Rudi Dutschke to the central figure of the 1968 movement . It shows Dutschke in 1967 and 1968 as their most important speaker. After the turning point caused by the assassination attempt in April 1968, Dutschke visibly lost his role in political and public life. In the following, the first public appearances in the 1970s and Dutschke's attempt to again exert a significant influence on the political discourse in the Federal Republic are described.
The director cuts interview passages and staged scenes from Rudi Dutschke's life. Friends and contemporary witnesses like Gaston Salvatore , Bernd Rabehl , Peter Schneider and Helga Reidemeister , but also Wolfgang Kraushaar , Claudius Seidl , Eberhard Diepgen and Joscha Schmierer have their say.
production
The film was produced by teamWorx in coproduction with ZDF. The shooting took place from the beginning of May 2008 in Berlin and the surrounding area. The budget was around 2.1 million euros. Dutschke was shown for the first time on June 29, 2009 in the series German TV films at the Munich Film Festival . It took almost a year to find a slot for the controversial portrait.
reception
Audience ratings
The viewing participation in the television premiere at prime time of the ZDF evening program on April 27, 2010 was unusually low with 1.18 million viewers and a market share of 3.6 percent. The film ran parallel to the broadcast of a Champions League semi-final with Bayern Munich , but series on other TV channels hardly suffered any drop in ratings . The Tagesspiegel attributes the weak interest to the fact that Rudi Dutschke has largely been forgotten and the film's privatist view of him did not explain to the audience the reasons for its broad impact.
Reviews
“Interviews with contemporary witnesses round off the portrait of the charismatic person Dutschke, who has become a symbol of a politically agitated generation whose utopias and disappointments are also reflected in the scenes in the film. A serious, respectable film that is thought-provoking in its details and at the height of the possibilities of the genre. "
"The entire Dutschke, as the creators Daniel Nocke and Stefan Krohmer portray him, is freed from politics and revolution, actually any ambition, and dimmed down to the mass-compatible" don't worry "measure of ZDF, according to which everything is digestible, if it is only light and airy, viewed cheerfully, supported by the family and neatly combed. "
“Krohmer takes time and all people and fates seriously. The fictional part is tidily staged. The documentation of the conversations, to which Dutschke's wife Gretchen also contributes, provides emotions and side glances and comedy. "
"" Dutschke "lasts only one and a half hours and deliberately focuses [...] The film does not try to answer the complicated question of what Dutschke actually stood for - Christian socialism , self-governing Soviet republic , violent resistance , German reunification ."
“And it will be a great film! But only because director Stefan Krohmer and author Daniel Nocke register these opinions of contemporary witnesses and weave them harmoniously into their film, but by no means adhere to the respective know-it-all. They just made their film and not one who wants to please contemporary witnesses. Maybe that's why he's become both so human and so contradicting. Rudi Dutschke's companions only appear, they form a layer of this film, which is otherwise a feature film through and through. "
“As calm as the narrative tone is kept, the work should cause all sorts of resistance - in the camp of Dutschke supporters and that of his opponents alike. Because the political icon is shrunk here to human size, contradictions in the characterization have not been eradicated, and that may as little please some as others. "
“Krohmer and Nocke choose a form of clever restraint against the background of which the characters act all the more clearly. This does not only apply to the level of the overall composition. The actor leadership works similarly; there is never outrage, always rather just put down than something is asserted with the putting down. Somewhere between the alleged so-it-was reality and the alienation effect: in this middle lies the Krohmer aesthetic, a middle between, say, Nico Hofmann and the Berlin School and because the middle is always, but not always rightly, considered uncool (It is often the thing that is hardest to endure and from where you stand closest to conflicting positions), Krohmer and Nocke often do not count very much. "
“Christoph Bach's sensitive Dutschke portrayal succeeds in what seems impossible - to take away the horror of the viewer in front of a played Rudi Dutschke. [...] But the film shows neither what Dutschke "preached", what he lived, nor anything about the goals of the revolt. Tschombé is a murderer, Springer incites people, something is wrong in Vietnam , too. [...] "
“The entirety of this voices and feature film potpourri is as irritating as it is entertaining and interesting. Here a movement and its most prominent representative is picking itself apart and doesn't even notice it. "
Awards
- Golden Gong , Munich Film Festival 2009
- German Television Award 2010 : Christoph Bach as Best Actor
- Nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize 2011
Dispute with Axel Springer AG
The world belonging to Axel Springer AG accused the production of “forgery” in order to “uphold the myth of the agitation against Dutschke”. The reason for this was that real picture headlines such as “Terror in Berlin” are shown in the film, but the associated photos have been partially exchanged. In the film, the exchanged images are animated in sequence to create a transition to their own fictional film sequences that emerge from the newspaper page. The responsible ZDF editor Caroline von Senden rejected the criticism and explained that "the integration of film recordings into the newspaper image (...) can obviously be recognized as a composition and merging of static printed image and moving image - that is, as a conscious montage". After Die Welt had also published a critical article by Bettina Röhl (“Rudi Dutschke deserved a quality film”), the daily newspaper accused the publisher of not shrinking from the “banality of the stupid” in this context.
literature
- Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz: Rudi Dutschke. We had a barbaric, beautiful life . A biography. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1996, ISBN 978-3-462-02573-6 .
Web links
- Dutschke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dutschke at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mareike Barmeyer: On the set of the "Dutschke" film - "That was back then" , June 2, 2008, taz.de ( Memento from June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Interview with producer Nico Hofmann: Ultimately, it's never about size , Der Spiegel 17/2010, page 160
- ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: ZDF docudrama “Dutschke” - A hero from controversy , April 27, 2010, spiegel.de .
- ^ Joachim Huber: ZDF film with disastrous quota - "Dutschke", forgetting , April 29, 2010, Der Tagesspiegel
- ↑ Dutschke. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Bernd Graff: Changing diapers with Rudi , April 27, 2010, sueddeutsche.de ( Memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Antje Wewer: Not without comedy , April 27, 2010
- ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: "Dutschke" - In the footsteps of a legendary do-gooder , July 7, 2009, welt.de
- ↑ Bernd Gäbler: Moving, Moving , April 27, 2010
- ^ Christian Buß : Revolutionary film biography. One, two, three, many Dutschkes! , April 30, 2010, spiegel.de
- ↑ Ekkehard Knörer: Pro Dutschke , April 29, 2010
- ↑ Eckhard Siepmann: A Dutschke without a message , April 30, 2010, freitag.de
- ↑ Lutz Happel: The real existing Rudi , April 27, 2010, stern.de
- ↑ "Frightening superficial" - Green Party founder criticized "Dutschke" movie on ZDF , April 25, 2010 dwdl.de .
- ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Historical facts "Dutschke" drama fake , April 27th 2010, welt.de .
- ↑ Bettina Röhl: Rudi Dutschke deserves a quality film , April 28, 2010 welt.de .
- ↑ Springer's "Welt" accuses ZDF of forgery - expropriated spinners! 29 April, 2010, taz.de .