Escape (1961)

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Movie
Original title Escape
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1961
length 13 minutes
Rod
Director Jürgen Hilgert , Gerhard Schmidt
script Gerd Hergen Lübben
music Georg Müller
occupation
  • Klaus Marr
  • Uwe Friedrich
  • Horst Rolf Weber

Flucht is a German short film by filmmakers Jürgen Hilgert and Gerhard Schmidt from 1961 .

action

The short documentary / feature film "Flucht" is about the socialization of young people in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the beginning of 1961: ideological adaptation and commitment to the system of rule on the one hand, rebellion against it and the decision to flee the GDR on the other. One of two refugees is shot to death immediately before crossing the border fence.

background

In the period before the Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961, hundreds, even thousands, of people fleeing the GDR were reported daily. The short fiction film - 13 minutes; black-and-white; German-speaking - was developed at the end of 1960 / beginning of 1961 by Jürgen Hilgert and Gerhard Schmidt in collaboration with the author Gerd Hergen Lübben and the composer Georg Müller, funded by the "Citizens' Education Center of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia" and awarded the title "Valuable" . - The filmmaker team Jürgen Hilgert and Gerhard Schmidt (direction, production), Gerd Hergen Lübben (screenplay, text) and Georg Müller (music) shot the short feature film Dawn (1962/1963; predicate “valuable”) and the short documentary from the life of Georg Wenzel (1964; Federal Film Prize), which, after viewing and evaluating documentary image and word material from the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) / German Democratic Republic (GDR), is now expressly a documentary about the life of a young man in the GDR is: A member of the border security forces, is on duty with the weapon to protect the fortified state border west, witness of an attempt to escape. - "Escape" was premiered on June 30, 1961 in Bonn as part of the "First public event on the stage for sensual perception - KONZIL ".

reception

More than fifty years after Hilgert and Schmidt's first short feature film was made, “Flucht” - like many other short films made at the time - cannot be found in databases such as IMDb , but in the Federal Archives Film Archive , which, like the “Citizenship Education Center des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen ”, mentioned in the opening credits: The short film, which has been praised as documentary and exciting as well as poetic and thoughtful, can therefore still be borrowed for screenings at any time.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In the "Federal Archives" : From the life of Georg Wenzel
  2. ^ "Federal Film Prize to Bonn. Team Hilgert-Schmidt received cultural film award ”; in: Bonner Rundschau, October 14, 1964.
  3. ↑ Cf. “Art exercises of young talents in words and pictures. First public evening of the Bonn 'Council' with three world premieres ”; in: "Bonner Rundschau", July 4, 1961.

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