Escape into silence

Movie
Original title	Escape into silence
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1966
length	83 minutes
Rod
Director	Siegfried Hartmann
script	Siegfried Hartmann, Edmund Kiehl
production	DEFA
music	Karl Schinsky
camera	Rolf Sohre
cut	Ruth Schreiber
occupation
Fritz Diez : Captain Stetter Dieter Vienna : Lieutenant Hoffmann Hans Hardt-Hardtloff : Ernst Schindler Marita Böhme : Helga Klink Regine Albrecht : Inge Klink Rolf Ludwig : Karl Reinhold Günter Sonnenberg : Heinz Klink Wolfgang Brunecker : Möller Jiří Vršťala : Wills Hans-Joachim Hanisch : Zschunke Harald Halgardt : Dr. wreath Siegfried Weiß : Jeweler Ernst-Georg Schwill : Detective officer Willi Neuenhahn : wheelwright Heinz Liefers : Pastor Wolfgang Greese : Host Arnim Mühlstädt : Section representative Charlotte Küter : Farmer's wife Arno Wyzniewski : Forensic Technician Willi Schrade : construction worker Christel Bodenstein : Kindergarten teacher Horst Schön : SS officer

Escape into Silence is a GDR movie from 1966 . In the DEFA - thriller it comes to crime mid-1960s in Thuringia, traces down to the last days of the war rich 20 years ago. The film was based on the novel Death pays with ducats by Wolfgang Held .

action

During construction work in a Thuringian village, two decomposed corpses are discovered in the clay soil. The criminologists called in discover that they are SS officers . This seems strange as there was no fighting in this area during World War II . The first suspect is the landowner at the time, who is found murdered in the forest shortly afterwards. Since precious medieval gold coins are found on all the dead, a connection between the acts is suspected.

It turns out that the first murders were committed shortly before the end of the war in a dispute over a large, stolen gold treasure. Two suspicious strangers in town seem to want to get hold of the coins by all means 20 years later. The police discover that these are other former SS members and can convict them of the murders.

Production and publication

Escape into Silence was filmed as a black and white film by the artistic working group “Babelsberg” under the working title “Shadows from Back then: Murder Does Not Statute Bar” and had its cinema premiere on May 26, 1966 at the Berlin Kino International . It was first broadcast on television on German television on April 7, 1967.

criticism

"Detective drama, the noteworthy statement of which is impaired by considerable formal defects."

- Lexicon of international film

literature

• "The Second Life of the Film City Babelsberg, DEFA Feature Films 1946–1992" , ISBN 978-3-89487-175-8
• "Lexicon of International Films" , Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek, 1995, ISBN 978-3-499-16357-9 (page 1642)
• Film template: "Wolfgang Held: Death pays with ducats" , Das Neue Berlin , 1964

Web links

• Escape into silence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Escape into silence at filmportal.de
• Cinema poster on flimmerkiste.bplaced.net
• Escape into silence at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 176 to 177 .
2. ↑ Details about the film on defa-stiftung.de
3. ↑ Neue Zeit of May 20, 1966, p. 5.