In the forecourt of truth
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | In the forecourt of truth |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 136 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fritz Umgelter |
| script | Johannes Hendrich |
| production | Hans Kwiet , SFB |
| camera | Rolf Ammon |
| cut | Friederike Badekow |
| occupation | |
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In the Forecourt of Truth is a television film by Fritz Umgelter from 1974. The actors include Gerhard Acktun , Matthias Habich and Gertraud Jesserer .
action
The television film is based on the experiences of a Czech who suffered bad things as a child on the Eastern Front of World War II . In the post-war period he stayed in Germany as a teenager and took part in black market deals and found himself in a criminal environment. Because of his own misconduct, he has repeated problems with the judiciary.
background
The screenplay by Johannes Hendrich is based on tape recordings of the Czech prisoner Jaroslav Wedrich in Berlin-Tegel, who was sentenced to five years in prison for manslaughter because he shot a person in a shootout between two opposing pimp groups in Berlin in June 1970 .
Reviews
- The lexicon of international film rates Im Vorhof der Truth as "an elaborately staged television game whose critical concern is unfortunately pushed into the background in view of the obvious pleasure in the broadly painted representation of gruesome strokes of fate."
- The television magazine Prisma praises the television film on its website as an "impressive, because atmospherically dense drama with a good cast" and awards it 3 out of 5 stars.
publication
On March 1, 2012, the television film was released on DVD.
Web links
- In the forecourt of the truth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ OFDb
- ↑ a b c In the Forecourt of Truth on the Prisma website
- ↑ THIS WEEK ON TELEVISION, Tuesday, November 26th, 9:00 pm ARD. In the forecourt of truth in: Der Spiegel 48/1974 of November 25, 1974
- ↑ CRIME: Saved work in: Der Spiegel 37/1971 from September 6, 1971
- ↑ In the forecourt of truth. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .