Erich Mielke - master of fear
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| Original title | Erich Mielke - master of fear |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director |
Jens Becker (scenic), Maarten van der Duin (documentary) |
| script | Maarten van der Duin, Jens Becker |
| production | Gunnar Dedio |
| music | Laurent Eyquem |
| camera | Jürgen Rehberg (scenic), Oliver Buschner (documentary) |
| cut | Markus Thüne |
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Erich Mielke - Master of Fear is a scenic documentary ( docudrama ) about the Minister for State Security of the GDR , Erich Mielke .
content
The scenic documentary by Jens Becker and Maarten van der Duin reveals the person Erich Mielke behind the totalitarian apparatus of the state security of the GDR. It tells what motivation Mielke guided, what he believed in, what power he wielded, how the Mielke system worked and how it ultimately failed. The film shows Erich Mielke at the height of his power in 1989 and in total resignation in prison in 1991. In film scenes, the viewer experiences a vital 83-year-old man at his workplace, the Ministry for State Security . The film shows how he acts as a minister, how he tries to save the GDR and how he ultimately surrenders. On the second film level, the viewer experiences Erich Mielke as a broken man in Berlin's Moabit correctional facility , where - physically and mentally aged by years - he is waiting for his trial. In conversation with a psychologist, he sums up his life.
Interviews in connection with archive material and exclusive insights into the BND and BStU files about Mielke complete the 90-minute documentary. In the interview u. a. Roland Jahn , Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former GDR , Mielke's lawyers Stefan König and Hubert Dreyling, the KGB General a. D. Nikolai Leonow, the historian Nikita Petrow and the head of the Moabit correctional facility, Wolfgang Fixson. The Berlin actor Kaspar Eichel can be seen in the role of Erich Mielke .
background
The film is a production by LOOKSfilm , producer: Gunnar Dedio , distributed by polyband Medien GmbH. The development was funded by the Media Program of the European Union . Other sponsors: Deutscher Filmförderfonds , DFFF and Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH, MDM. It opened in theaters on November 5, 2015.
criticism
“Master of Fear is the subtitle of the docudrama, which is well worth seeing. (…) Mielke's life couldn't be summed up more appropriately: His passion was fear, he wanted to be feared. "
"Hannah Arendt's badly worn word about the 'banality of evil': It fits here perfectly."
"The film with historical recordings, comments, interviews and staged scenes gives interesting insights into recent German history and could convey a lot of interesting information to younger people in particular."
"An overdue documentary that shows how easily people lose their freedom through fear."
“The film not only documents the fear of others, but also finds it as a driving force in Mielke's own biography. (...) Above all, based on the expert opinion from 1991, the film manages to create a psychogram. "
"The film does not fluff Erich Mielke into a monster, on the contrary, it takes away the shudder of this man by precisely (...) exposing his perverse core: the will to power and its abuse."
literature
- Birgit Rasch , Gunnar Dedio : Me. Erich Mielke: Psychogram of the head of the GDR secret service. Sutton, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-555-0 . (The book for the film)
Web links
- Erich Mielke - master of fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Erich Mielke - Master of Fear on the LOOKSfilm website
- Erich Mielke - Master of Fear at Polyband
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Erich Mielke - Master of Fear . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 337 K).
- ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Mielke's passion was the fear of others. In: welt.de. November 5, 2015, accessed October 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Kerstin Decker: The man who wanted to love all people. In: tagesspiegel.de. November 5, 2015, accessed October 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Docu-drama: Erich Mielke - Master of Fear. In: morgenpost.de. November 5, 2015, accessed October 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Maria Ossowski: The psychogram of a power man and manipulator. (No longer available online.) In: rbb-online.de. October 27, 2015, archived from the original on October 28, 2015 ; accessed on October 15, 2016 .
- ^ Matthias Schümann: Erich Mielke - the most hated man in the GDR. In: ndr.de. November 4, 2015, archived from the original on November 6, 2015 ; accessed on October 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Lutz Pehnert: Master of Fear - Documentary about Erich Mielke. In: daserste.de. November 1, 2015, archived from the original on November 2, 2015 ; accessed on October 15, 2016 .