Ekkehard Schall (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ekkehard Schall |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ahmed Romhi |
| production | German Academy for Film Art |
| music | Paul Dessau |
| camera | Klaus R. Schulz |
| cut | Hertha Kleinofen |
Ekkehard Schall originally Die Probe is a documentary film made by Ahmed Romhi at the Academy of Cinematic Art from 1965 .
action
The film begins with a look at the courtyard of the theater on Schiffbauerdamm , the home of the Berliner Ensemble . Helene Weigel gets out of her car and jokes with the camera. Several actors arrive one after the other, such as Angelica Domröse , Hilmar Thate , Martin Flörchinger , Wolf Kaiser and Ekkehard Schall . The mood is relaxed and relaxed, while stagehands are busy transporting several parts of the scenery.
The next recordings show Ekkehard Schall during a performance of Bertolt Brecht's play Der Aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui . This scene shows Arturo Ui trying to learn to speak in front of several spectators with the help of a provincial actor.
Now it's about the rehearsals for the tragedy William Shakespeare's Coriolan , edited by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Manfred Wekwerth and Joachim Tenschert , which are observed over a longer period of time. You can see excerpts from the different phases of the rehearsals, whether it is about coordinating the fight scenes with the music, about different points on the stage, about missions or even about the design of the costumes. In addition to the actors already shown in the theater's courtyard, Stefan Lisewski , Willi Schwabe , Alfred Müller , Bruno Carstens , Heinz-Dieter Knaup , Ernst-Georg Schwill and many others can also be seen on stage. At the end, excerpts from a performance are shown with spectators and the film ends with Hilmar Thates and Ekkehard Schalls walking into their common cloakroom, where we watch them removing make-up and changing their clothes.
Production and publication
Ekkehard Schall is the diploma thesis by Jordanian Ahmed Romhi at the University of Film Art in Potsdam about the actor Ekkehard Schall and the Berliner Ensemble. The first demonstrable screenings of the black and white film took place on February 2, 1965 in the Kulturhaus Berlin-Pankow district and in February 1965 during the West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen under the film title Die Probe . The first broadcast on German television took place on February 10, 1966.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 31, 1965, p. 15
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 24, 1965, p. 6
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 13, 1966, p. 6