A stone's throw
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A stone's throw |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claus Dobberke |
| script | Claus Dobberke |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Red Circle" |
| music |
Star combo Meissen , Karl-Ernst Sasse |
| camera | Hans Heinrich |
| cut | Christa Helwig |
| occupation | |
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A stone's throw away is a DDR -Kinofilm the DEFA of Claus Dobberke from the year 1977 . It tells of everyday life in the National People's Army and especially the associated challenges of leadership. It was based on the novel of the same name by Walter Flegel .
action
After his wedding vacation, the young lieutenant Riedel returns to the barracks. Since everything is going well in the troop, Private Weissenbach seems to have been a reliable representative. But this obviously ensures good results with drastic methods. Among other things, he is responsible for the fact that the soldier Maier almost drowns. Riedel separates Weißenbach from his functions. However, when his new representative failed in the maneuver, company commander Captain Kaiser confronted the lieutenant. Weissenbach is deployed again to ensure combat readiness. Lieutenant Riedel realizes that his actions according to moral standards were not in the interests of the common good.
Production and publication
The scenario was the responsibility of Wolfgang Ebeling and Walter Flegel and Hans-Joachim Wallstein worked as a dramaturge .
A stone's throw from the artistic working group “Red Circle” was shot as an Orwocolor film under the working title The Sash and had its cinema premiere on June 30, 1977 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . A festive preview took place on March 30, 1977 in front of 500 participants during a conference of the GDR's cinematography in the plenary hall of the Volkskammer in the Berlin Palace of the Republic . The first television broadcast took place in the first program of the East German television on July 12, 1978. The film was released on DVD in 2015.
Reviews
In New Germany , Horst Knietzsch remarked about Walter Flegel, the author of this film, who as an NVA officer and writer has already published several novels:
"With the collaboration of Wolfgang Ebeling, the book was created for an interesting film that is well worth seeing, even if it still appears a little roughly hewn and forced in individual parts and a finer and also psychologically more coherent interweaving would have served its dramaturgical framework."
The Lexicon of International Films writes:
"Actually poor film with dramatic weaknesses that cannot be overlooked."
literature
- Original film: "Walter Flegel: A cat's jump" , military publisher of the GDR , 1976
- "Lexicon of International Films" , Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek, 1995, ISBN 978-3-499-16357-9 (page 2985)
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 315-316 .
- Stefan Kahlau: People's Army in Transition? The depiction of the NVA in the DEFA feature film from the 1950s to the 1970s , Munich (AVMpress) 2015. ISBN 978-3-86924-627-7
Web links
- A few steps in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A stone's throw from filmportal.de
- A stone's throw from the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ defa-stiftung.de
- ↑ Neue Zeit of March 31, 1977, p. 2
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from July 2, 1977, p. 4
- ↑ A stone's throw. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 18, 2018 .