Career (1971)

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Movie
Original title Career
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1971
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Heiner Carow
script Heiner Carow
Hermann Herlinghaus
production DEFA
music Peter Gotthardt
Dietrich Kittner (songs)
camera Jürgen Brauer
cut Evelyn Carow
occupation

Career is a DEFA feature film by Heiner Carow from 1971 .

action

Günter Walcher was born on the Baltic coast and goes to school there. At the end of the war , as a 16-year-old Hitler Youth, he was complicit in the shooting of a young Russian foreign worker . That is why the soldiers of the Red Army arrested him at the end of the war. In prison he meets the real murderer, whom he kills in a maddened state. A short time later, the area is occupied by the American army in the exchange of territory . So he will grow up in the later Federal Republic.

About 24 years later, Günter works in a West German company, is not interested in politics, is hard-working and just wants to live peacefully. Since there is no resistance from him, his superiors want to appoint him as head of department. The only condition is that he finds a reason to dismiss the works council chairman, Zacharias. Here Günter thinks back to his youth, when he was complicit in the death of a person through his wrong behavior. He has nothing against Zacharias, whom he knows as a fair fighter for his cause, even if he does not agree with him.

The management of the group now wants to pull him on their side by letting him participate in the social life of the upper level. They also try to make the advantages of such a position palatable to his wife. Günter succumbs to the offer of promotion and sees to it that Zacharias is fired for continued political activities.

production

Career was filmed in black and white and total vision and had its premiere on April 15, 1971 at the Berlin Kino International .

To a very large extent, the film consists of excerpts from the 1968 banned film The Russians Come (Heiner Carow tried to save a lot of the material that was shot) and German newsreels.

criticism

In Die Neue Zeit , Helmut Ulrich said that the film shows ability and the effort to find new forms of expression for contemporary political film. But it is also an inconsistent mix of different styles.

The lexicon of international films describes the film as a failed portrait of a careerist with rough descriptions of West German reality.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 10, 1971, p. 12
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of April 20, 1971, p. 4
  3. ↑ career. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used