Black Chapel secret operation
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Black Chapel secret operation |
| Country of production |
Germany France Italy |
| original language |
German Italian English |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 105, 100 minutes |
| Age rating | JMK from 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ralph Habib |
| script |
Hans Nicklisch Pierre Lévy Jean Lévitte |
| production |
Artur Brauner Emanuele Cassuto |
| music | Roman Vlad |
| camera | Georg Krause |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
| occupation | |
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Secret Operation Black Chapel is a German-French-Italian spy film from 1959, set during the Second World War. Peter van Eyck and Dawn Addams play the leading roles .
action
Europe, in the spring of 1940. After the lightning victory over Poland, Hitler's Wehrmacht drew up plans for attacking the overthrow of Western and Northern Europe. Several high-ranking officers fear that Hitler's excessive policy of conquest will ultimately plunge Germany into the abyss and therefore intend to contact Great Britain through diplomatic channels . After careful consideration, these officers from the management level of the Wehrmacht selected the journalist Robert Golder, who was critical of the regime, in order to establish contacts with the enemy. But the opposite side in the form of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler did not remain inactive and tried to dig the nest of resistance. Due to a warning from the waiter in his favorite pub, Golder barely escapes his arrest by the Gestapo, but is subsequently overwhelmed and kidnapped. But it is not Himmler's henchmen who kidnapped Golder. Rather, it is the resistance group behind it, who want to use Golder as a messenger. He is supposed to convey Hitler's plans for the upcoming campaign in the West to a person of trust in the Vatican so that countermeasures can be initiated in the affected countries. This is to prevent a further escalation of the war.
The plan of the opposing Wehrmacht officers is to be able to hold talks with the British and French after a planned overthrow of Hitler in order to conclude a separate peace. Robert Golder is sent to Rome with the secret plans for the western campaign to a respected member of the Catholic Church. Himmler cannot prevent Golder from leaving the empire for Italy with a forged passport. But he notifies his most loyal representative on site, the high-ranking SS man Hoffmann. This brawny guy has set up a regime of horror in the Italian capital that is disgusted by the ally in the form of the Roman police prefect Ferrari. While Golder intends to visit his contact, the other side is not inactive, because Golder's opponents still have an ace up their sleeve: the equally pretty and dangerous top agent Tilla Turner, who is assigned to the journalist on a secret mission. But opponents eventually become confidants when Golder and Tilla fall in love. Now both are in mortal danger ...
Production notes
The black chapel secret operation was filmed in the CCC film studios in Berlin-Spandau from June 23 to August 1959 . The world premiere took place on October 16, 1959. The film was released on DVD in 2014.
Otto Erdmann designed the buildings, Helmut Holger the costumes. At her side was Benito Montresor from the Italian side .
The story was based on a so-called “factual report” by Olaf Herfeldt .
A year later, Peter van Eyck and Dawn Addams appeared together again in front of the camera: In Fritz Lang's last film director, Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse they played again in 1960, lovers in extreme danger.
useful information
Since 1954, beginning with Canaris and children, mothers and a general , a wave of sometimes restorative, sometimes heroic films ( Der Stern von Afrika , U 47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien ) swept through the Federal Republican cinema landscape, thematically dealing with the Second World War and the German officer corps in the resistance ( It happened on July 20 , July 20 , the fox of Paris ) employed. With the black band secret action, the tendency to preferentially emphasize the resistance against the Nazi regime in West German films and thus to separate the Wehrmacht from the crimes of the political leadership was continued.
Historical background
In the early phase of World War II, the Gestapo named the group of Wehrmacht officers who conspired against Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist regime to overthrow the regime and to conclude a separate peace with the Western Allies as "Die Schwarze Kapelle " . The term " Red Orchestra " was coined as the opposite of a pro-Soviet, pro-communist resistance .
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: "An only semi-authentic, but using (weekly) original recordings, time-characteristically designed dramatic reportage that is seriously played, dynamically illustrated with music and technically satisfactory."
The lexicon of international film says: "Contemporary history in speculative cinema packaging."
In Cinema.online it says: “Love, pistols, good and bad Germans - these are the ingredients of this naive action film, which is rightly forgotten today. Conclusion: Absolutely outrageous espionage scenario. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Black Chapel secret operation in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Black Chapel secret operation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Black Chapel secret operation on cinema.de
Web links
- Secret Action Black Chapel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Black chapel secret operation at filmportal.de