Hello, comrade

Movie
Original title	Hello, comrade
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1993
length	89 minutes
Rod
Director	Manfred Stelzer
script	Gerhard Bengsch
production	Studio Hamburg Production for Film and Television GmbH (Hamburg) and NDR
music	Klaus Doldinger
camera	Michael Wiesweg , BVK Jürgen Schulz
cut	Birgit Leusch, FSO Iris Vallenthin
occupation
Jürgen Schmidt : Adolf Wendler Renate Krößner : Maria Wendler Georg Marischka : Ludwig Kattner Irm Hermann : Rosl Kattner Pierre René Müller : Thomas Gorn Wolfgang Winkler : Erwin Gorn Renate Geissler : Hanna Gorn Christian Grashof : Rudi Siebart Egon Biscan : Dr. Josef Grohmann Werner Zeussel : Alfons Ebenfelder Eckhart-Alexander Wachholz : Bank Director Blüchel Anton Pointecker : Headmaster Kramm Franz Hanfstingl : Mayor Riedel René Chromik : Zangenberg student

Grüß Gott, Comrade is a television film from Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Studio Hamburg Produktion für Film und Fernsehen GmbH (Hamburg) , in coproduction with Arte , by Manfred Stelzer from 1993. The slightly satirical film comedy was based on a script by Writer and author Gerhard Bengsch . The premiere and first broadcast in German took place on September 11, 1993 in the joint Franco-German cultural program Arte .

action

More by chance than planned, the East German teacher Adolf Wendler and his wife Maria spent a camping holiday in 1989 in Hungary in the golden west. Before he knows it, the timpanist, who until then has always been a loyal and one hundred percent comrade, has a job in the Bavarian school service and "makes" a career in it without hesitation. It can all be started very comfortably, because Wendler and his wife will soon even become the proud owners of a smart home. Everything is going well, until one day the rebellious and recalcitrant ex-student Thomas Gorn from back then comes into his class and exposes his old teacher from GDR times as a real turnaround and formerly loyal communist.

production

The outdoor recordings of the shooting of the film took place on behalf of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) from July 10, 1992 to August 6, 1992 at locations in the Bavarian communities of Markt Murnau and Bad Kohlgrub , as well as in Hungary and Brandenburg . The final studio recordings and the final production of the film were carried out between November 23, 1992 and November 28, 1992 at Studio Hamburg Produktion für Film und Fernsehen GmbH (Hamburg) .

premiere

The film was officially premiered on June 28, 1993 as part of the 1993 Munich Film Festival .

criticism

TV fiction film judges: "A turning neck almost breaks its neck".

When it was first broadcast in 1993, Arte called the film: "A German-German comedy with satirical nuances that does not spare either the West or the East Germans".

The TV magazine “TV Klar” described “Grüß Gott, Comrade” as a “satirical view of history”.

Web links

• / Hello, comrade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hello, comrade at tvspielfilm.de
• Hello, comrade at filmportal.de
• Hello, comrade at prisma.de
• Hello, comrade at ofdb.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hello, comrade . Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 17, 2016.
2. ↑ Hello, comrade . filmportal.de. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
3. ↑ Hello, comrade . filmportal.de. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
4. ↑ Hello, comrade. tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 17, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Source: Arte-Videotext from 11./12. September 1993
6. ↑ Source: "TV Klar" No. 40 from August 30, 1993