Ernst Schneller (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Ernst Schneller |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 196 minutes |
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| Director | Rudi Kurz |
| script | Rudi Kurz |
| production | Erich Kühne for DEFA on behalf of GDR television |
| camera | Horst Hardt |
| cut | Lotti Mehnert |
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Ernst Schneller is the title of a two-part television film based on the script and directed by Rudi Kurz , which was produced by DEFA for GDR television . The first part was first broadcast on September 11, 1977 in the 1st program. The second part followed on September 13, 1977.
action
The feature film presents several important passages from the life of the communist teacher and politician Ernst Schneller from Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. from the end of the 1920s to his murder in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1944. The director and screenwriter Rudi Kurz relied primarily on the biography of Ernst Schneller. Life picture of a revolutionary by Wolfgang Kießling . After the film adaptations of the biographies of Hans Beimler (1969) and Artur Becker (1971), it was Rudi Kurz's third film about the life of a personality in the German labor movement that integrated itself into the efforts of GDR television to come to terms with history before 1945.
Ernst Schneller was a member of the Red Front Fighters Association , played a key role in the construction of the Bermsgrün workers' home and became a member of the Reichstag in Berlin . The KPD leadership appointed him head of the Reich party school "Rosa Luxemburg" . In 1933 he was captured by the National Socialists and murdered in a concentration camp after spending 11 years in prison.
criticism
The lexicon of international film writes: "Hero worship filmed for GDR television according to a conventional pattern, cinematic and not very attractive for those interested in contemporary history."
production
The filming locations of the two-part film biography included Schwarzenberg and Berlin a. a. also Bermsgrün, Raschau and Sosa in the Saxon Ore Mountains. The studio recordings were made in the DEFA studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg .
According to his own admission, the director of the film did not intend to shoot a pure biography.
The “creative collective” of the film (the then head of the children / youth / sport division at GDR television Klaus Herde , director and screenwriter Rudi Kurz , the actors Horst Schulze , Sergei Bondartschuk and Renate Blume , cameraman Horst Hardt and dramaturge Fritz Schmenger ) became in August 1978 awarded the Ernst Schneller Prize of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST), which was awarded for the first time .
Audience numbers
The visual participation in both parts of the film was 22.7% (1st part) and 23.7% (2nd part) in 1977.
Web links
- Ernst Schneller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Beutelschmidt, Henning Wrage, Kristian Kißling, Susanne Liermann: The book for the film - the film for the book. Approaching the literary canon on GDR television , Leipzig 2004, p. 15.
- ↑ Ernst Schneller. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Society for cultural connections abroad: GDR review, 23 (1978)
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from August 12, 1978, p. 2
- ↑ Falk Tennert, Ingelore König: Flimmer hours. Data on television use by East German children up to 1989 , Leipzig 2003, p. 115.