Hitler cantata
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Hitler cantata |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jutta Brückner |
| script | Jutta Brückner |
| production | Hans-Werner Honert, Klaus Schmutzer , Sven Böck , Michael André (WDR), Birgit Kämper (Arte) |
| music | Peter Gotthardt |
| camera | Thomas Mauch |
| cut |
Monika Schindler , Lena Rem |
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Hitler Cantata is a German Nazi melodrama from 2005 . The director was the filmmaker Jutta Brückner , she also wrote the script.
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The film is set in Berlin and in a summer house in Finland from October 1938 to April 1939. The music student Ursula is full of enthusiasm for the Führer and wants to support the composer Hanns Broch in composing a cantata for Hitler's 50th birthday. Since her application is rejected, her fiancé, Gottlieb Just, has to help out. After all, the Reich Chamber of Music pursues its own interests along Broch's communist sentiments. The composer wants to work undisturbed in his summer house in Finland. Gottlieb takes care of the matter and Ursula is finally allowed to assist Broch. Various key experiences and the bitter realization that she probably does not belong to the chosen male breed soon let Ursula's enthusiasm fall silent. She decides to help the pretty Jewish actress Gisela escape from a raid led by Gottlieb. The two very similar women exchange their identities. When Gottlieb Gisela wanted to arrest, Ursula suddenly stood in front of him - she cut her wrists, but survived the attempted suicide.
Healed from National Socialism, Ursula finally meets Hanns again - he visits her at home. His wife Alma left him after she found out about her husband's stormy affair with Ursula. It is shortly before the outbreak of World War II and two individuals have already had to learn bitterly how the Nazi regime violently encroaches on people's privacy.
Reviews
“Finally a film about the erotic parts of fascist seduction. A film that is not a schoolmaster, but conveys emotional and intellectual insights into the psychological dimensions of totalitarianism. A necessary film. "
“A Fassbinder story of moral compromises and questioned ideals in Nazi Germany shortly before the outbreak of World War II ... Peter Gotthardt's original music is an important element. The music advances or comments on the action differently. The musical styles of this time are well matched from chamber music to hits. "
“The Hitler Cantata is one of the most necessary films about fascism of late. It is the film that tells us that thinking in the pictures has not yet been abolished. "
“The editing and especially the pictures by cameraman Thomas Mauch, who learned his trade by working with Reitz, Kluge and Herzog, are often terribly brittle. This film, which is sovereign even in the higher and higher tone, does not give any concise messages. There is absurdity in the room. But how could it be otherwise, if you want to adequately portray the madness of Nazi ideology. "
"With her film Hitlerkantate, the director has achieved something very rare in German cinema: a film that tells of the suggestive power of National Socialism without making any underlying common ground with its aesthetics."
Awards
Invitations to A-festivals: Tokyo, Moscow, Montréal, Mar del Plata, Batumi (award for the best male leading actor to Hilmar Thate)
Web links
- Hitler cantata in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website for the film Hitler Cantata
- The DVD of the film Hitler Cantata
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Hitlerkantate” by Jutta Brückner successfully rebels against the corruption in the images of fascism in German cinema ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: getidan.de .
- ↑ DVDESK: Show the madness . In: taz.de , September 18, 2014.