Secrets (1968)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Secrets |
| Original title | Secrets / Малки тайни |
| Country of production |
Germany , Bulgaria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 87, 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Staudte |
| script |
Angel Wagenstein , Wolfgang Staudte |
| production | Wolfgang Staudte, Kiril Kirow |
| music | Milcho Lewiew |
| camera | Wolf Wirth |
| cut | Rosemarie Kubera |
| occupation | |
| |
Secrets (later title: Memories in the Morning ) is a German-Bulgarian feature film from 1968. Directed by Wolfgang Staudte , Karl Michael Vogler and Reinhild Solf play secret lovers on vacation.
action
The investigation of a murder - a woman's corpse was washed up from the sea - on a beach on the Black Sea in Bulgaria populated by numerous tourists from west and east brings with it quite unpleasant complications for some of the beach holidaymakers. The surveys show that many vacationers have secrets that they try to hide. For example Gisela Stein, who traveled here from the GDR, and her West German counterpart Walter Riemeck, a married businessman who lives in West Berlin. Walter has decided to divorce his unsuspecting wife Margot. Gisela, who picked Walter up from the airport, is having an affair here that nobody should know about. Both have registered as married couples in the hotel. In order to appear credible, Walter stole Margot's passport to show when Gisela checked in.
The police investigations threaten to reveal both secrets. Walter is soon seized by fear and then downright panic, which prompts him to flee the seaside resort hastily. But other guests also have their secrets, such as the German citizen Lothar Kunze, who has a deep Nazi past, and also the musician Jan, who had a problematic relationship with a Bulgarian native during the Cold War. Police inspector Damyanov proceeds cautiously with his investigations and makes it clear to the secret people that a life of fraud, falsehood and secrecy will cause problems in the long run.
Production notes
Secrets was filmed on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast in Varna in the summer of 1968 and was shown in German cinemas on November 15, 1968. From August 11, 1969, the film under the title "Малки тайни" could also be seen in co-producing Bulgaria.
The equipment, costumes and buildings were supplied by Bulgarians, Frank Brühne assisted chief cameraman Wolf Wirth .
The shooting was accompanied by numerous imponderables, which significantly hindered the shooting. So one morning in August 1968 the entire Bulgarian crew was missing: some of them had been drafted to march into Czechoslovakia with other Warsaw Pact soldiers. The German team then had to leave Bulgaria as quickly as possible, and Staudte stretched the film in order to get it to the usual cinema length with various landscape shots made by Wirth. Secrecy was a huge cash flop, and Staudte had to pay off debts that he had taken on with this project until the end of his life. For this reason he shot numerous commissioned productions for television such as individual episodes of popular crime series or Christmas multi-part series.
criticism
In the film service it was said that Staudte was trying to “only touch the stories and not tell them to the end. Different storylines initially run in parallel, are then interwoven, the viewer has the opportunity to make their own thoughts and to continue the story himself (...). Staudte had Wolf Wirth film a lot of beautiful pictures up to flavourful nature shots, but in the way the pictures are arranged he reveals their deceptive appearance. "
“An ambitious entertainment film that provides insights into political realities and human behavior in episodically nested storylines. In a short narrative style, the stories are only touched and deliberately not told to the end. The social criticism is quiet and manifests itself in looks, gestures and the demonstrated lack of contact of the people. Their deceptive appearance is revealed in the arrangement of the (sometimes flavourful) images: suddenly abysses open up in perfectly normal people. "
Web links
- Secrets in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Secrecies at filmportal.de
- Secrets in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Secrecy on google.books.de
- ↑ movie service, 48/1968
- ↑ Secrets in the Lexicon of International Films