Always your face on the way
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Always your face on the way |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 65 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Achim Huebner |
| script |
Rudolf Boehm Achim Huebner |
| production |
DEFA on behalf of DFF |
| music | Günter Hauk |
| camera | Otto Merz |
| cut | Ursula Zweig |
| occupation | |
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Always on the way your face is a German anti-war film by Achim Hübner from 1960 , which was produced by DEFA for GDR television.
action
Herbert Langer traveled to Minsk on business in the late 1950s . He works for a company that supplies pipes for an oil pipeline. In Minsk he is accompanied by the interpreter Gima and both go to a bar on New Year's Eve. Herbert has tried to get a telephone connection to Sascha since his arrival in Minsk. Gima can only get Sascha on the phone in the bar. He reacts enthusiastically when he learns that Herbert is in town and comes straight to the bar. It turns out that Sascha and Herbert know each other from 1944, when Sascha was still a child. Gima keeps her distance from Herbert, but he tells his story.
Herbert was on the way to his division with a comrade when he noticed the SS in front of him . The soldiers stormed a house, a Russian was shot and two others, including a young woman, were arrested. The two were led past them and the woman's gaze touched Herbert deeply. Once again he questioned the war and the actions of the Germans, even when they were later sitting in a team home. A superior hears Herbert's words and takes away his pay book . When he tries to lead him away, Herbert flees and takes refuge in a forest. The captured Russian, whose name is Sonja, is being interrogated by SS-Hauptsturmführer Brüser. Before the war she was a German teacher. Now she is supposed to betray the partisan Kuleschow to the SS, but pretends not to know him. Brüser releases Sonja because everyone and the partisans will distrust her. He offers her that she can come back to him at any time. Sonja also flees into the forest and is found by the partisans, who soon discover Herbert. He had once received the Iron Cross , which he has now secretly removed from his uniform and hidden in an inside pocket of his jacket.
The partisans are suspicious, as they almost discovered Sonja and Herbert together, and believe that Sonja defected to the Germans and led Herbert to the partisan's hiding place. Herbert explains when he first saw Sonja and Sonja strictly refuses to go back to Brüser. The boy Sascha appears, who has seen the incidents in the team home and so can relieve Herbert. Herbert stays with the partisans, who are slowly beginning to trust him. They want to free their comrade Kuleschow, who is being held prisoner at the SS headquarters in Minsk. Herbert offers to go into town disguised as an officer and scout out Kuleschow's situation. When Sascha takes his jacket to be reworked, he discovers the Iron Cross. Herbert had stated when he picked up that he had not received any awards. The partisans now withdraw his assignment and Sonja agrees to go into town and to see Brüser herself. Herbert and Sonja have long since fallen in love, but both realize that there is no other way out to save Kuleschow's life.
After a few days, Sonja sent the partisans a plan of the rooms of the SS headquarters and the cell in which Kuleschow was located. As agreed, she should detonate a bomb in the headquarters and the explosion will ultimately serve as a sign for the partisans to storm the building. While Sonja is in the building, Herbert and the other partisans disguise themselves as German soldiers in front of the building and simulate a car breakdown. However, the explosion does not materialize. Sonja heard how Brüser wanted to go to Kuleschow to kill him in the course of a final torture. In her distress she activated the bomb with a timer, but offered Brüser to prevent him from implementing his plans. Later she leaves the building broken. Shortly after their departure, which Herbert and his men see, the bomb explodes. The partisans storm the building, shoot the SS men and free Kuleschow. Back in the partisan quarters, Sonja is close to suicide. She cannot suppress what she has experienced and can only slowly accept that the Germans among the partisans are not like brat. Some time later the partisan camp is attacked by the Wehrmacht. Herbert also defended the camp in order to spare Sonja any new acquaintance with the SS. Both are already making plans for the future when Sonja is hit by a bullet and dies.
Herbert finishes his story. At the stroke of midnight, he toasts Sonja with Sascha and Gima.
production
The film was produced in the studios of the DEFA studio for feature films, Albrecht -Produktion. The working title was The Glade . Werner Bergemann created the costumes, Hans Poppe designed the film . The film ran for the first time on December 27, 1960 on DFF 1 on GDR television.
criticism
The film service called Immer am Weg your face a "TV film that tries to overcome the taboo subject of love between a German and a Russian woman with pathos."
Web links
- Always on the way your face in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Always on the way your face at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Always your face on the way. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .