Hop bunny hop

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Movie
Original title Hop bunny hop
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1991
length 60 minutes
Rod
Director Christian Steinke
script Ulrich Plenzdorf
production German television broadcasting
music Gerhard Rosenfeld
camera Hartwig Strobel
cut Karola Mittelstädt
occupation

Hüpf, Häschen hüpf is a feature film on German TV by Christian Steinke from 1991.

action

The former German Democratic Republic - Attorney Daniel sweeps over the fence in front of his family home. A closed van with the label “ An undverkauf GmbH ” stops and the driver asks whether a Mr. Bischoff lives here, which he denies. Ms. Daniels, who comes from shopping, doesn't know a neighbor by that name either, but sends him to the end of the street, where he should inquire again, but what he doesn't do and drives away. The man looks familiar to Daniels, but, like his wife, cannot remember. On the table in the apartment is a completed questionnaire that Daniels needs to reapply after the end of the GDR. He answers the questions very conscientiously, since a member of the decision-making committee is his former colleague, the public prosecutor Simonis, whom he himself once convicted of theft and who knows his past well. Together with his wife, he goes through all the questions again, some of the answers to which are new to her. Then she goes into the kitchen to prepare something for dinner while he falls asleep in front of the television.

Suddenly a man stands behind him who reveals himself to be a grill, a former major in the Ministry for State Security of the GDR and who is supposed to take him to Simonis. He lets him get into the van that was parked in front of his door before, is handcuffed and two civilians guard him. In the car, Grill reveals to him that the Simonis story was made up so he wouldn't cause any trouble. But Daniels is not the only one arrested, an actress arrives in front of the Deutsches Theater . A pastor voluntarily gets in in front of the old town hall , as he has been promised that he will immediately get his own parish again if he agrees with everything and a writer is arrested in front of the Humboldt University in Berlin . The inmates are driven to a bunker-like cellar in Berlin , where other prisoners are already located. It turns out that several of them were members of a commission of inquiry made up of civil rights activists trying to find the culprits who brutally mistreated and tortured hundreds of demonstrators at so-called feeder points during the days of October 1989 . Daniels is one of those arrested because, as a public prosecutor, he refused to issue arrest warrants against peaceful demonstrators, which is why 53 so-called criminals had to be released.

In the underground , the old rulers in the new society got together after the end of the GDR and are once again hunting down those who thought differently from back then. In a crouched position , they have to hop up several stairs into a large bare room in which there is a lattice cage in which they are crammed tightly together, even a heavily pregnant woman is not taken into account. All attempts to complain bounce off the uniformed soldiers, only the former members of the commission are led a little later out of the cage and into another part of the bunker. Daniels is directed to a command center where Major Grill is already waiting for him, who again accuses Daniels of his decisions in October 1989, which led to the release of several arrested persons. Today's indictment is opposition to the instructions of his then direct superior, which Daniels describes as a violation of the law, but Grill reminds him once again that he had to protect the interests of the state at the time. But that is not even the main charge, because now he is shown film recordings of his statements before the investigative commission, which show that he fully supported his decisions. Here he also reported that there were arrest warrants prepared by Major Grill, in which only the name had to be entered and which could not be implemented due to Daniel's behavior. Then Grill switches the playback on the monitor wall and you can see the members of the investigative commission being shot with submachine guns . Then Daniels is also led into the execution room, Gill takes his glasses off, asks if he wants to say anything else and is blindfolded. In this situation Daniels takes back all his former statements, laments and weeps for his life. He realizes that he has been guilty of serious betrayal that cannot be repaired and asks the new bodies for forgiveness . Then he tears the cloth from his eyes, sees the living members of the investigative committee who have heard the whining for his life and suddenly sits in front of his television set again.

When Daniel's wife enters the room with supper, he tells her the story he has just dreamed. Suddenly there is a knock and Grill stands in the door to bring Daniels an invitation from the Supreme Court Director Simonis, who describes him as an unencumbered person, who recognized the signs of the new times early on and who he absolutely wants to have for the upcoming tasks. In order to meet Simonis pretty quickly, Daniels gets into the already known transporter while his wife watches him.

Production and publication

In the opening and closing credits is hopping bunny hopping and is written without commas, but there are several publications in which the film with hopping, bunny, hüpf or the nightmare of a prosecutor , Bunny hüpf or the nightmare of a prosecutor or hüpf Hop, Bunny titled becomes. It was first broadcast as a color film on October 3, 1991 by Das Erste .

Ulrich Plenzdorf wrote the book for the film from memory records of those affected who were arrested on the nights of October 7th and 8th, 1989, which is why many of the scenes in the film are said to have happened that way. The dramaturgy was in the hands of Karl-Heinz Staamann .

criticism

In the Berliner Zeitung , Heide Schwochow remarked about the film and its late broadcast on television:

“In this film, the problems of people who live in a deformed society are put up for discussion. Text and direction work metaphorically. The camera (Hartwig Strobel) creates memorable images, real and distorted, calm and staccato. From one extreme to the other. Dream and reality merge. The viewer's imagination is required, he has to think along with it, deal with it, question himself. The problem goes beyond that of the Eastern citizen, it affects the behavior of people towards power in general. Don't get stuck in the mundane of everyday problems. That is the movie's strength.

There is apparently no demand for this in public television. The German citizens would not understand that, the claim would be set too high, said the bosses of the ARD and pushed the film into the late program at 10:50 p.m. The demanding belongs in the night. In the early evening we enjoy ourselves to death. "

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  1. ↑ Neue Zeit of November 6, 1991, p. 7
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 2, 1991, p. 17