Angel made of iron
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Angel made of iron |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Brasch |
| script | Thomas Brasch |
| production |
Heinz Angermeyer Joachim von Vietinghoff |
| music | Christian Kunert |
| camera | Walter Lassally |
| cut |
Stefan Arnstein Tanja Schmidbauer |
| occupation | |
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Engel aus Eisen is a German fiction film from 1981. It is the debut film by the German playwright Thomas Brasch . The film had its television premiere on July 28, 1983 on the Second German Television .
action
The film tells the true story of the young head of the Gladow gang, Werner Gladow , who was up to mischief with a gang of thieves in Berlin at the time of the Berlin Airlift . At this time Berlin was in a state of emergency, so that the Gladow gang could carry out their raids largely undisturbed.
Gladow has contacts with the police in the eastern part of the city through the former executioner Gustav Völpel and thus receives lucrative information about possible goals of his thefts. As soon as Gladow and his gang have reached the boundaries of the divided city, he is safe from the police, as their powers end at the sector boundary. In the ruins of post-war Berlin, Gladow is on the way to an exceptional position in the Berlin underworld and pretends to be a gang boss along with his friend Lisa Gabler. His most important partner Völpel, on the other hand, can flee from his petty-bourgeois marriage and oppression through these acts. The end of the Berlin blockade, however, destroys both dreams. In regular times, the freedom of Gladow and his gang is restricted. Finally, he is betrayed to the police by a comrade, shoots the chauffeur of his getaway car while on the run and is arrested in his cellar hiding place.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : First film with impressively dense scenes that reflect the spirit of that time and main characters in which the contradictions and the distress of the people after the war are particularly clear. In the end, too stylized, the film loses the drama and tempo of the authentic starting fable.
Awards
The film was shown in the “First Work” competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981 , but was not awarded any prizes. The film was also a contribution to the Max Ophüls Film Prize in 1982 .
Ilse Pagé received the German Film Prize in Gold in 1981 for her portrayal of his wife Völpel .
Director Thomas Brasch was awarded a prize worth over DM 50,000 for the first directing at the 1981 Bavarian Film Prize.
Web links
- Angel of iron in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A gang in post-war Berlin , program information in Pforzheimer Zeitung of July 28, 1983, p. 7
- ↑ Angels made of iron. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Bertolucci is the favorite , in Pforzheimer Zeitung of May 8, 1981, p. 13
- ↑ Films from four countries in competition , in Pforzheimer Zeitung of December 11, 1981, p. 7
- ↑ Boos for GDR director , in Pforzheimer Zeitung of January 19, 1982, p. 10
- ^ Brasch and Franz Josef Strauss - Scandal at the award of the Bavarian Film Prize 1981 ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).