Everyone dies for himself alone (1962)
Everyone dies for himself is a German television film from 1962. The basis was the novel of the same name by Hans Fallada . The director was Falk Harnack , who directed the film on behalf of the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB). It was first broadcast on July 19, 1962 on ARD (now Das Erste ).
Like the book, the film is based on the life of the Berlin couple Otto Hermann Hampel and Elise Hampel .
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Berlin in the early 1940s under National Socialism . When the Quangel couple learned of their son's death in France, they felt the need to act as ordinary people against the injustice regime. The factory worker Otto Quangel writes cards in which he denounces the government and which he secretly stores in stairwells in the area in order to shake up the finders. For months and years, the police in the form of Inspector Escherich have not had a hot lead, the so-called "Klabautermann" remains a phantom. But then Otto Quangel makes a serious mistake and the couple is arrested, interrogated and sentenced to death by the guillotine in Plötzensee by the People's Court .
History of origin
The impetus for the underlying novel came, among other things, from DEFA , which was planning a film adaptation, but initially did not realize it. It appeared for the first time - shortened by "critical passages" - from April to August 1947 as a sequel to the Neue Berliner Illustrierte and in January 1948 as a book by the Aufbau-Verlag . Although it sold well in the GDR , it was not published in West Germany. The novel did not appear there until September 1964, well after the television film was broadcast.
Later adaptations
- 1970 Everyone dies for himself alone a TV multi-part series was created at DEFA in the GDR under director Hans-Joachim Kasprzik . The Quangel couple played Elsa Grube-Deister and Erwin Geschonneck . Other actors were here u. a. Wolfgang Kieling , Dieter Franke , Barbara Adolph , Wolfgang Greese , Fred Delmare , Christine Schorn , Fred Düren , Günther Simon and Rolf Hoppe .
- 1976 Everyone dies for himself alone . Feature film by Alfred Vohrer with Hildegard Knef and Carl Raddatz in the leading roles. Some of the actors who were already involved in the 1962 film adaptation also play a role here, which, however, is in complete contrast to the original role - especially actors who were known as voice actors such as Martin Hirthe and Klaus Miedel .
- 2016: Everyone Dies for Himself is a Franco-German-British fictional film by Vincent Perez with Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson in the leading roles.
criticism
“The best film is, as is usually the case, the least known and has disappeared in the archive; it comes from Falk Harnack, the former director of DEFA. "
Web links
- Every Man Dies Alone in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Everyone dies for himself alone at filmportal.de
- Classic of the German television game: Everyone dies for himself alone , crime website krimiserien.heimat.eu
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Fallada: Everyone dies for himself . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-27375-9 , in the epilogue by Michael Töteberg to the previous film versions of the novel