I make you live

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Movie
Original title I make you live
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1978
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Ralf Kirsten
script Ralf Kirsten
production DEFA
music Siegfried Matthus
camera Jürgen Brauer
cut Ursula Zweig
occupation

I force you to live is a DEFA film by Ralf Kirsten from 1978 based on the story “Gambit” by Karl Sewart from 1972.

action

In the courtyard of the school in a small village in the Ore Mountains, several pupils are bid farewell to volunteer in the ranks of the SS as the last contest against the approaching Red Army. Also there is Wolfgang, the 15-year-old son of the teacher Grübler, while his father has to listen to the events in the classroom. The boy, who grew up in fascist Germany, wants to go on a military adventure in a fanatical blindness in the spring of 1945, volunteers, demonstrates the defiant loyalty to the Nibelungs that he has acquired. The father is filled with horror. Certainly, he voluntarily or involuntarily offered his services to the fascist rulers, fled into silent opposition, but now a deadly danger affects him very directly. Since the war is only a matter of days, he no longer wants to see his own son sacrificed on the altar of insane perseverance fanatics.

Brooding father sees no other way to save his son than to tie him up the night before his mission and kidnap him far away into the forest. A duel is fought. The boy, still a child, mortally hates his father, not only because he sees in him a “failure”, but a person who suddenly violently prevents him from living his “ideals”, what he believes is mythical Blood-and-soil ritual. Now they are sitting in a hole in the ground - father and son, have been watching each other suspiciously for days and with very contradicting intentions and hopes for a future of which they both have no idea.

Fähnleinführer Wulf organized the search for his friend Wolfgang and his father. The two notice this, and Wolfgang, who sees his liberation approaching, loudly reveals himself. Discovered by this, his father is willing to divert attention from him and steer the Hitler Youth on the wrong track. Wulf, who was given a hunting rifle by the director of the school, who was fleeing the Russians, uses it to shoot Wolfgang's father. The Red Army is already in sight.

production

I force you to live was filmed by the artistic working group “Babelsberg” under the working title “Gambit” on ORWO color and had its premiere on April 20, 1978 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . It was first broadcast on the first program on GDR television on May 8, 1980.

criticism

In New Germany , Horst Knietzsch finds that Ralf Kirsten with this film has courage in several respects to consistently psychological preparation of the material, to use music sparingly according to dramaturgical points of view or only to support emotions; Trust in the expressiveness of the images, which has proven the capabilities of the camera. There are some things that can formally provoke the viewer, there is a lot that is worth considering and thinking about.

Günter Sobe wrote in the Berliner Zeitung that this story, like a parable, aims to illustrate a conflict that millions had to face from May 1945. One had run astray a million times, a million times to learn to rethink. - A subject that concerns many.

In the Neue Zeit , HU notices after the premiere that Rolf Ludwig has added another to his important film roles with the lifelike incarnation of this character. Precise characteristics: the clumsiness of this man, the professional peculiarities, the touching attempts to re-establish the relationship with his slipped son, the guilty conscience and the breaking out of a downright stubborn determination that does not correspond to his nature.

The lexicon of international films described the film as a chamber play-like, dense and dramatically remarkable film, which, using the example of an exaggerated situation, seeks to encourage the discussion of fascism and false images of heroes.

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  1. ↑ Horst Kietzsch in New Germany from April 22, 1978
  2. ^ Günter Sobe in the Berliner Zeitung of April 25, 1978
  3. ^ HU in the New Time of April 27, 1978
  4. ↑ I'm forcing you to live. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used