Corpse case Zernik
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Corpse case Zernik |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Nitzschke |
| script | Gerhard Klein |
| music | Hans-Dieter Hosalla |
| camera | Claus Neumann |
| cut | Evelyn Carow |
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Leichensache Zernik is a crime film from 1972 produced by DEFA's feature film studio .
The subject is based on real crimes and the memories of Berlin police officers. In the spring of 1970, the director Gerhard Klein began working on the film, but he fell seriously ill on the 10th day of shooting and died a little later. Two years later, his assistant and student Helmut Nitzschke continued the work. The old friend of Klein, the scriptwriter and director Wolfgang Kohlhaase , provided essential help .
action
In 1948 Katharina Zernik was strangled in a forest near Berlin and doused with sulfuric acid. During the investigation, Kramm is struggling with the organizational and political turmoil of the post-war period, and there are more victims in the meantime. But the murderer leaves traces when he breaks into Zernik's apartment and can ultimately be found in a hotel by Kramm.
The overarching topic is the scuffles of competence between police stations in the Berlin sectors as well as the division of cross-sectoral criminal activity in connection with the so-called silent police .
background
Zernik corpse matter was filmed in black and white by the Berlin Artistic Working Group and premiered on March 30, 1972 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . The first broadcast on the first program of the GDR television took place on August 12, 1973. The film's locations were largely in the vicinity of the street of the Paris Commune in Berlin.
At the beginning of the shooting in the Prague film studios Barrandov in 1970, the main role of the murderer Retzmann was occupied by Wolfgang Kieling and the criminal candidate Kramm by Wolfgang Winkler . When filming resumed in 1972, Kieling had already left the GDR and the role was reassigned. The actor Alexander Lang finally took on the role of Kramm .
The corpse matter Zernik is based in part on the case of the serial killer Willi Kimmritz , who kept the people of Berlin and Brandenburg in suspense with his crimes in the years 1946–1948.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 350-351 .
criticism
"An artistically above average crime film with a convincing, partly documentary depiction of the time milieu."
“The film builds on the tradition of Affaire Blum , which was filmed in the same year that Zernik played the corpse . The successful combination of documentary and play scenes resulted in an exciting contemporary document that doesn't save on humor. "
Web links
- Corpse thing Zernik in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Corpse matter Zernik at filmportal.de
- Zernik corpse case at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ True Crime from East Germany . Review by Jan Eik on Wolfgang Mittmann: Aktion Roland - Hunt for a woman murderer . Retrieved from luise-berlin.de on November 18, 2014.
- ↑ Progress Film-Verleih ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
