Enemies
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Enemies |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK reserve film |
| Rod | |
| Director | Viktor Tourjansky |
| script |
Emil Burri Arthur Luethy Viktor Tourjansky |
| music | Lothar Bruhne |
| camera | Fritz Arno Wagner |
| cut | Walter Fredersdorf |
| occupation | |
Also: Hans Benedikt ; Walter Ebert-Grassow , Franz Fröhlich , Walter Kindler , Otto Kuhlmann , Helmut Kutzner , Werner Völger | |
Enemies is a German propaganda - adventure film of Victor Tourjansky from the year 1940th
Today it is a reserved film from the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation . It is part of the foundation's portfolio, has not been released for distribution and may only be shown with the consent and under the conditions of the foundation.
The leading roles are cast with Brigitte Horney and Willy Birgel .
action
Immediately before the 1939 war against Poland , Polish workers paralyzed work in a German sawmill in a wooded area near the border with an act of sabotage . Antek leads the group of anti-German workers. He pushed a piece of iron into the mechanism of the big saw. You need the afternoon to receive weapons that have arrived. Keith, who works as an inspector at the sawmill, uncovers the sabotage and expels Antek of the sawmill. He dispels sawmill owner Arnold Wegner's concerns. Wegner instinctively feels that a dangerous mood is brewing. In the afternoon of the same day, his feeling was confirmed when it became known that a German settler had been attacked and slain. After his farm was looted, it was burned down. Armed men have now banded together everywhere, occupied the roads leading to the border and started a hunt for ethnic Germans in the area. The authorities close their eyes and ears to their goings-on. Now the Wegner family also makes the decision to leave Poland across the nearby border as quickly as possible.
Since Arnold Wegner's 12-year-old son Paul went fishing with his servant Andreas, Keith and Marianne Wegner, Paul's sister, went to look for him. During this time men instigated by Antek break into the sawmill at his instigation and destroy it almost completely. Much worse, however, is that they killed Arnold Wegner.
When Keith, together with Marianne and Paul Wegner and Andreas, arrives some time later at the agreed meeting point in the forest, where around 200 German refugees are already hiding, he sees perplexed faces and naturally takes over the leadership of the group. When you come across an extensive swamp area, you cannot think of getting any further in view of the oncoming night. Keith knows the pursuers are on their way. Together with Andreas he wants to explore the situation under cover of night because he knows of a route that leads past an anti-German tavern to the German border. When they enter the tavern, he stands across from the young Anna, whose acquaintance he had already made that morning. At a second glance, however, he sees to his great horror that the men who are chasing the Germans have set up their meeting point here of all places. Many of them are drunk. Nobody knows him except Anna. Anna, however, the stepdaughter of the German hostess, is an ethnic German. The young woman fell in love with Keith the first time she saw him and wants to help him and the other refugees. Her late father once showed her a secret path through the swamp to the German border. In order to lull the men into safety, Anna takes up the advertisement of wild Jans, leader of the gang. Keith doesn't know what to think and begins to doubt Anna. When Antek, looking for Keith, whom he especially hates, appears in the tavern and exposes Keith as the leader of the Volksdeutsche, Anna has to act. She sets a fire to confuse the gang, with her weapons also falling victim to the fire. In the general confusion, she manages to escape with Keith and lead the settlers through the swamp to the German border. A life together now lies ahead of Anna and Keith.
Production notes
The shooting for Enemies took place from March 8th to June 1940 in Prague . Bavaria Filmkunst GmbH (Munich-Geiselgasteig - Carl W. Tetting production group) acted as the production company . The production line was Carl W. Tetting . The buildings were built under the direction of Julius von Borsody , Herbert Hochreiter and Alfred Metscher. Ruth Wagner designed the costumes .
The premiere of the film took place on November 7, 1940 in the Capitol in Berlin .
criticism
After the end of the Second World War, all copies of the film were confiscated by the high command of the victorious Allied powers and the performance was banned. Today the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation claims the evaluation rights. The film was classified as a reserved film because of its content, which contradicts the idea of international understanding . Since then, its public performance has only been possible to a limited extent.
The descriptions of repression against German citizens by Poland were intended to morally justify the war against Poland.
See also
Web links
- Enemies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Enemies at filmportal.de
- Enemies at Murnau Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Anna Sarah Vielhaber: The popular German film 1930-1970, BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, p. 71
- ↑ Enemy credits at Filmportal.de
- ↑ Jürgen Egyptien (Ed.), Memory in Text and Image: On the Representation of War and Holocaust in Literary and Cinematic Creation in Germany and Poland, Akademie Verlag 2012, p. 328