In the dust of the stars
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | In the dust of the stars |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gottfried Kolditz |
| script | Joachim Hellwig |
| production | Helmut Klein |
| music | Karl-Ernst Sasse |
| camera | Peter Süring |
| cut | Christa Helwig |
| occupation | |
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In the Dust of the Stars is a science fiction film, which the Artistic Working Group futurum the DEFA and directed by Gottfried Kolditz produced. The film officially premiered during the Summer Film Festival on July 1, 1976.
action
The spaceship Cynro 19/4 sent from the planet Cynro reaches the planet TEM 4 after receiving an emergency call, but does not find an emergency situation there. On the contrary, the ruler of the planet known as the "boss" tries to persuade the visitors to return as soon as possible. Only the navigator remaining on board becomes suspicious and discovers on his own the natives of the planet who have to do slave labor in underground mines.
The occupation disagrees as to whether to support the indigenous peoples in their fight against the oppressors or to let the matter run its course. However, the occupiers of TEM 4 force the crew to leave in a hurry by flooding the spacecraft's landing site. The captain and the dying navigator must be left behind.
The film ends with the funeral of the navigator by the natives, who beforehand say goodbye to the starting spaceship like a deity.
Reviews
Friederike Haupt wrote in the Leipzig Almanac that the film was quite entertaining .
“The difference between two historical-social epochs should ... be made tangible for the viewer in the fable, but above all in the attitudes of the characters; The meaning of history and its special tension lay in the meeting of personalities of different historical and social orders, in the demonstration of the contradiction. But Gottfried Kolditz succeeds in creating this tension ... hardly ... The parable ... does not work. "
useful information
- In the DVD edition, the reference that Im Staub der Sterne was produced by the artistic working group futurum ( defa futurum ) is cut from the opening and closing credits. This notice can only be found in the original 35 mm copies.
- The film cost around 4,300,000 GDR marks and was visited by around 800,000 viewers in the first thirteen weeks after the premiere.
literature
- Karsten Kruschel : glue for Venus. The science fiction film in the GDR, In: Sascha Mamczak , Wolfgang Jeschke (Hrsg.): The science fiction year 2007. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag , Munich, ISBN 3-453-52261-3 , pp. 803-888.
- Sonja Fritzsche: East Germany's “Workshop Future”. Futurology and the Science Fiction Films of "defa-futurum". In: German Studies Review. Vol. 29, No. 2 (May 2006), pp. 367-386.
- Simon Spiegel: Pictures of a better world. The utopia in non-fictional film , Marburg 2019, pp. 179–211. ISBN 978-374100340-0 .
Web links
- In the Dust of the Stars in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Friederike Haupt: Back to the future: GDR meets science fiction: "In the dust of the stars" - a mixture that is second to none. on: leipzig-almanach.de
- Documentation of Progress ( Memento of April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Documentation of Progress
- In the dust of the stars at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friederike Haupt: Back to the Future: GDR meets Science Fiction: “In the dust of the stars” - a mixture that is second to none. on: leipzig-almanach.de
- ^ Film and television. quoted n. Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen: Lexicon of Science Fiction Films. Volume 1, Munich 1997, p. 450f.
- ↑ Heinecke, Herbert. Future in Film: Social Science Studies on Star Trek and Other Science Fiction . Scriptum, 2000. ISBN 9783933046475 . P. 66.