Court martial (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Court martial |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Meisel |
| script |
Will Berthold ; Heinz Oskar Wuttig |
| production |
Arca film production ( Gero Wecker ; Helmuth Volmer ) |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Georg Krause |
| cut | Wolfgang Wehrum |
| occupation | |
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Court martial is a German anti-war film by Gero Wecker from 1959 , which was produced by Arca-Filmgesellschaft mbH in Berlin, with Karlheinz Böhm in a leading role. The basis was the story "Kreuzer Pommern" by Will Berthold in the magazine Revue . It is about the charge and conviction of Marines for deserting in World War II and was shot in black and white.
action
Three shipwrecked German marines, Oberleutnant Düren, Ensign Stahmer and Maat Hinze, are rescued from a German submarine . After it turns out that they are the only survivors of the sinking of the warship Pomerania , they are first celebrated and decorated as heroes. An investigator then notices inconsistencies in the reports of the three and considers the possibility that they deliberately left the ship out of self-interest. He obtained a court case and appeared there himself as a prosecutor with the allegation of desertion . Because of this personal union, the joint defense lawyer of the three, who are inexperienced in matters of military jurisdiction, unsuccessfully requests that he be rejected as biased. The three initially assert their innocence, but as they become more and more entangled in contradictions, one after the other admitted that they had left the ship prematurely, but complained, sometimes very emotional, that none of their comrades was harmed as a result staying on the ship any longer would have resulted in unnecessary death to no benefit to others. All three are ultimately sentenced to death .
Production notes
The film was made in the Berlin-Pichelsberg studio. The premiere took place on April 16, 1959 in the EM Theater in Stuttgart.
reception
Der Spiegel 12/1959 published an article about the film and its novel basis. This was based on the fate of the warship Bismarck , whereby the circumstances of the desertion are classified as doubtful in the article. The article also doubts the authenticity of the attorney's emotional and committed defense speech both in personal conversations with the judge and in the pleading before the court in view of real military jurisdiction in the Third Reich. He also evaluates other dramaturgical effects such as fading techniques in the judgment scene and the playing of a soldier's song.
criticism
"A phrase-like anti-war film, also questionable in its approach to the problem."
Others
The film was released on DVD by ems .
The film was nominated at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1959.
Web links
- Court martial in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Georg Krause
- ↑ spiegel.de
- ^ Court martial. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 19, 2016 .
- ↑ festival-cannes.com (English)