Konrad Adenauer - hours of decision

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Movie
Original title Konrad Adenauer - hours of decision
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2012
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK without restriction
Rod
Director Stefan Schneider
script Werner Biermann
production Christian Feyerabend
Peter Gottschalk
Gerolf Karwath
Uwe Kersken
Imogen Nabel
Beate Schlanstein
Walter Sucher
music Markus Lehmann-Horn
camera Martin Christ
cut Josef von Ooyen
occupation

Konrad Adenauer - Hours of Decision is a German television film from 2012. The docudrama was first broadcast in 2012 on Arte and in Das Erste .

content

Konrad Adenauer - Hours of Decision tells important stages in his political and private life from 1933 to 1967. The film begins with Konrad Adenauer receiving the news on the morning of August 13, 1961 that a wall was being built in Berlin . The hours before he makes the decision not to go to Berlin on the same day, but to Regensburg for an election campaign event, form the framework in which Adenauer's career from 1933 to 1961 is told based on key scenes. After the resumption of the events of August 13th, the further developments until 1963/1967 are shown.

Over half of the film consists of game scenes that the author Werner Biermann reconstructed from interviews with children and grandchildren of Konrad Adenauer, other contemporary witnesses and written sources. Interviews with contemporary witnesses with Georg Adenauer, Libet Werhahn-Adenauer , Adenauer's secretary Hannelore Siegel and the interpreter Hermann Kusterer as well as the historians Henning Köhler , Frank Bösch and Peter Merseburger supplement the scenes from the game and archive material.

Reviews

  • Die Welt Kompakt , Sven Felix Kellerhoff : "With 'Hours of Decision' the Kulturkanal has made a very worth seeing film".
  • Hamburger Abendblatt , Karolin Jacquemain: "'Konrad Adenauer' is an excellent history lesson about post-war Germany and a mediocre television film."
  • HÖRZU , Michael Tokarski / Thomas Kunze : "Overall, an unusually differentiated picture of the original Federal Chancellor emerges: He is not the saint that followers revered him, but neither is he the devil that some opponents thought he was.
  • Spiegel online , Nikolaus von Festenberg: “With 'Konrad Adenauer - Hours of Decision', Stefan Schneider (director) and Werner Biermann (book) have made a big deal that is hard to get past. A heroic epic - but without pathos. The mixture of game scenes - around 60 percent - archive material and interviews works, the rhythm and tension arcs work, the story is pleasantly told chronologically. "
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung , Franziska Augstein : “The two-part docu-drama about Konrad Adenauer tries to make Adenauer's vita palatable to an audience that the public broadcasters usually ingratiate themselves with with folk music and kitschy smack. The result is amazing. Yes, it is possible: Konrad Adenauer's life can also be shown as if it were a Rosamunde Pilcher film. "
  • FAZ , Jochen Hieber : “A technically and aesthetically convincing docu-drama that is fascinating over long stretches can be seen tonight at Arte and next Sunday in Erste. 'Konrad Adenauer - Hours of Decision' does not have to hide behind comparable highlights of the genre, such as Heinrich Breloer's 'Wehner - The Untold Story' from 1993 or Thomas Schadt's 'Der Mann aus der Pfalz' (2009). The screenwriter Werner Biermann and the director Stefan Schneider, both belonging to the first post-war generation, meet the insidious, i.e. difficult-to-meet demands of the hybrid genre almost perfectly. They avoid the illustrated school radio as well as the dazzling histotainment, they show their main character without any hagiographic bow, but with enlightened sympathy. The biggest mistake in your film is that it ends after ninety minutes. "

Others

The first broadcast on Arte was on July 31, 2012 at 8.15 p.m., ARD showed the film on August 5, 2012 at 9.45 p.m. on Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When he lost his feel - Arte shows docudrama about founding Chancellor Adenauer ( memento from December 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on welt.de
  2. ↑ Konrad Adenauer: A life for power on Abendblatt.de
  3. ↑ Konrad Adenauer - Hours of Decision on hoerzu.de
  4. ↑ Just the same on spiegel.de
  5. ↑ Forget politics, at least today on sueddeutsche.de
  6. ↑ http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/dokudrama-zu-konrad-adenauer-er-war-der-chef-von-dem-ganzen-verein-11837841.html
  7. ^ Spiegel.de and Tagesspiegel.de .