Edelweiss Pirates (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Edelweiss pirates |
| Country of production |
Germany , Switzerland , Netherlands , Luxembourg |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Niko von Glasow |
| script |
Kiki von Glasow , Niko von Glasow |
| production |
Palladio Film X-Films Creative Pool (co-production) |
| music | Andreas Schilling |
| camera | Jolanta Dylewska |
| cut |
Oli Weiss Andreas Wodraschke |
| occupation | |
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Edelweißpiraten is a German feature film by Niko von Glasow from 2004. It is based on the events around the Ehrenfeld group , a resistance group that was active in Cologne-Ehrenfeld in 1944 . The film was shot in 2001 in St. Petersburg and Budapest, and its world premiere was on August 29, 2004 in Montréal . It was released in Germany on November 10, 2005.
action
In the Ehrenfeld district of Cologne, shortly before the end of the Second World War , a group of working class children lived their very own everyday life. These edelweiss pirates dream of a just world and long for the carefree past. They listen to jazz and rebel against Nazi culture.
One of them is Karl, who fell in love with the somewhat older Cilly. Cilly has two children with Karl's older brother, who died in the war. Peter, Karl's younger brother, is a member of the Hitler Youth , but when the brothers' father is killed in the war, he turns away from the community and joins the Edelweiss pirates. They get to know the concentration camp prisoner Hans Steinbrück and put him up with Cilly. With Hans, they are increasingly resisting the Nazis by hiding Jews and organizing weapons.
Hans begins to develop feelings for Cilly, which Karl doesn't like at all. The situation escalates on Peter's birthday when Karl fights with Hans. In the meantime, the Edelweiss pirates have been targeted by the Gestapo . Two commissioners appear at Cilly's and send their two children to the home. Cilly has to stay in the house as a decoy for Hans, who the inspectors are especially after. Karl and Hans get along and start a rescue attempt with Peter, but they arrive too late because Cilly has already been transported away. In an exchange of fire, Hans shoots a Nazi and thereby saves Peter's life. During the subsequent escape, Hans is shot. Karl and Peter put him in hiding.
A little later, the Edelweiss pirates are arrested by the Gestapo. Karl, Peter and the injured Hans escape at first. In order to save himself and his brother, however, Karl is ready to reveal the hiding place to the NSDAP functionary Hoegen if he and his brother are subsequently released. Hoegen agrees insofar as he promises not to release Karl and Peter, but to save them from certain death by execution. In return, he not only expects treason, but also a positive statement from Karl when the Americans march in.
During the interrogation of the captured Edelweiss pirates, Hoegen suggests to his Gestapo colleagues that they should hang Cilly instead of young Peter. In order to blackmail incriminating statements against the young mother, Hans and Peter are tortured. Hans takes all the blame, however, and Peter thwarts his brother's deal by turning down Hoegen's offer. When Peter is brought back to his cell, the prison is bombed by the approaching Americans. Through the cell door, Karl confesses his betrayal to his brother, but the latter replies that he does not hold back and that he is more willing to die than to betray his comrades. On November 10, 1944, the Edelweiss pirates were hanged, except for Karl, who had to watch from a Gestapo car.
When the Americans arrive, Cilly brings her children out of the home at gunpoint. Hoegen is taken away by the American military police and asks Karl to testify for him as agreed. However, he denies the American interpreter's question as to whether this Nazi actually helped him. When Hoegen then claims that his brother was worthless, Karl contradicts vehemently.
Reviews
“The film does away with the discrediting of the edelweiss pirates as petty criminals and sets a monument to the proletarian resistance. Staging rather mixed, the meandering episodes convince with their oppressive everyday reality of a bombed and starved city. "
“The focus is not on the heroes of the history books, but on people who took resistance for granted, but also had to deal with denunciation and betrayal in the group. After "Sophie Scholl" another chapter on the resistance in Nazi Germany - a completely forgotten one! "
"The story of proud young people in the resistance against the Third Reich, staged in the manner of a rumor, is neither brain food nor a beacon."
“Gripping and atmospherically dense, unconventional, visually powerful and also risky staged: the little-known story of a Cologne youth gang who took on the Nazi regime. [...] Predicate valuable "
Web links
- Edelweiss Pirates in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Edelweißpiraten at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- Official website of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for edelweiss pirates . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2004 (PDF; test number: 100 445 K).
- ↑ Edelweiss Pirates. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Film review at kino.de
- ↑ Cinema film review
- ↑ Assessment by the Wiesbaden Film Assessment Board