Georg Elser - One from Germany
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Georg Elser - One from Germany |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Klaus Maria Brandauer |
| script | Stephen Sheppard |
| production |
Rainer Söhnlein , Moritz Borman |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Lajos Koltai |
| cut | Dagmar Hirtz |
| occupation | |
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Georg Elser - Eine aus Deutschland is a German feature film (produced in English under the title Seven Minutes ) from 1989 . The film was based on the novel Georg Elser, one from Germany. Novel (Original title: The Artisan ) by Stephen Sheppard , who also wrote the screenplay. The film is the directorial debut of the actor Klaus Maria Brandauer . The subject of the Hitler assassin Georg Elser , whose film role is also played by Brandauer. The film does not exactly correspond to the sequence before and after Elser's assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and high-ranking followers on November 8, 1939. For dramaturgical reasons, for example, Brandauer had a fictional opponent appear and Elser suggested a relationship with a waitress in the Bürgerbräukeller.
The film premiered on October 19, 1989 in Stuttgart and was first broadcast on television on November 6, 1991 on ARD . The revival in German cinemas began on November 7, 2009.
action
The film tells the story of Georg Elser . Elser is a Swabian watchmaker and anti-fascist . He is a quiet, withdrawn man who lives and works without paying much attention. His anti-fascism is only expressed in small gestures. He refuses the Hitler salute and is against the war. However, the watchmaker builds a bomb that is supposed to kill Adolf Hitler . In November 1939, Hitler is supposed to give a speech in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich . The occasion is the anniversary of the coup attempt in 1923. Elser wants to end the war that has just begun with an assassination attempt on Hitler . He succeeds in planting his bomb near the lectern. The bomb detonated, but Hitler set out shortly before and was spared. The fugitive Georg Elser was caught and was taken to the Dachau concentration camp , where he was murdered in 1945.
Reviews
“Dispensing with chronological consistency and rash attempts at explanation, the film describes an unspectacular, largely forgotten hero of the Nazi era; With the means of exciting and entertaining narrative cinema, he emphatically paints a picture of everyday fascism without diluting the seriousness of the subject and the moral claim. "
Awards
The producers of the film received the Bavarian Film Prize in 1989 . In 1990 the film was awarded the German Film Prize in Gold in the categories of best actor (Brandauer) and best editing. In the same year, the film received the Gilde Film Prize in silver from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater .
reception
Franz Hirth (* 1929), Elser's nephew, who for a long time refused to speak about his uncle out of shame, made the decision immediately after the premiere of the film in Stuttgart to reveal himself to Klaus Maria Brandauer as Elser's nephew.
See also
Elser - He would have changed the world , film from 2015.
literature
- Stephen Sheppard : Georg Elser, one from Germany. Roman (Original title: The Artisan ). German from collective Druck-Reif. Goldmann, Munich 1989, 347 pages, ISBN 3-442-09663-4
Web links
- Georg Elser - One of Germany in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Georg Elser - One from Germany at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Elser - One from Germany - Release Info . In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 14, 2018.
- ^ A b Hermann G. Abmayr: My uncle wanted to kill Adolf Hitler . In: Badische Zeitung.de , March 25, 2015. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
- ↑ Georg Elser - One from Germany . In: Filmportal.de . Retrieved February 14, 2018.
- ↑ Georg Elser - One from Germany. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 26, 2017 .