Children, mothers and a general
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Children, mothers and a general |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | László Benedek |
| script | László Benedek |
| production | Intercontinental-Film, Munich ( Erich Pommer , Heinz-Joachim Ewert ) |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Günther Rittau |
| cut | Anneliese Artelt |
| occupation | |
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Children, Mothers and a General is a German feature film from 1955. The film was based on a novel by Herbert Reinecker . In the distribution district of Düsseldorf , the film was also shown under the title Get off with heroism .
action
The film is set towards the end of World War II . The war is lost for Germany, but boys still go to war voluntarily for Hitler . The war front is already close near Szczecin . A group of high school students fanatically goes to war. However, their mothers do not want to accept that their sons should fall for the Führer in the last months of the war and go in search of them. They learn that they belong to Captain Dornberg's group. Indeed, they can track down their boys. At the front they meet stubborn officers and disaffected soldiers. Only their own sons are motivated, and they definitely don't want to go home with their mothers. An older, experienced soldier, who also does not understand that these boys should die unnecessarily, finally hides the mothers with their sons in a barn while the front moves further west.
background
The film was produced in the Hamburg-Wandsbek studio, the post-shots were taken in the Bavaria Film studio in Geiselgasteig. The filming of the film took place from October to December 1954 in the Lüneburg Heath , in Walsrode and Buchholz in the Nordheide . The world premiere was on March 4, 1955 in Hamburg .
Other actors included such well-known actors as Hans Mahler (inter alia the artistic director and director at the Ohnsorg Theater ), Elke Aberle , Horst Beck , Hans Karl Friedrich , Horst Gnekow , Hermann Kner , Paul Edwin Roth and Karl Striebeck .
In contrast to the distribution version intended for the German market, the version intended for foreign countries ends when the children leave for the front.
Reviews
“A film worth discussing, which unequivocally denounces the degeneracy of the warfare of the time and illuminates the disruption of man in total war from the perspective of maternal emotions. His efforts to condemn the war, despite the impressive actors and good camera work, all too often get stuck in feeling and cliché and do not achieve the effect of Bernhard Wicki's themed film Die Brücke . "
"The film fluctuates between dignified film craftsmanship and committed message, which, however, remains all too stereotyped and - despite impressive acting performances - is tied to a dramaturgy of superficial effects."
Awards
- Therese Giehse was awarded the German Film Prize in the Best Actress category in 1955 .
- In 1956, the film won the Golden Globe Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film received this award together with the Danish film Das Wort by Carl Theodor Dreyer , the Greek film Stella by Michael Cacoyannis and the Japanese film Kodomo no me by Yoshiro Kawazu .
- The film evaluation board of the federal states awarded the film the rating “valuable”.
- The film was recommended by the Evangelical Film Guild as "best film of the month" (February 1955).
literature
- Felicitas Milke: "The time is not yet ripe for such a film". CHILDREN, MOTHER AND A GENERAL (1955) as a legacy from Erich Pommer. In: Filmblatt, Volume 16, No. 45 Summer 2011, ISSN 1433-2051 , pp. 75–90.
Web links
- Children, mothers and a general in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Children, mothers and a general at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 528-529
- ↑ Children, Mothers, and a General. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 25, 2016 .