Mom i'm alive

Movie
Original title	Mom i'm alive
Country of production	GDR
original language	German , Russian
Publishing year	1976
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Konrad Wolf
script	Konrad Wolf, Wolfgang Kohlhaase
production	Herbert Ehler
music	Rainer Bohm
camera	Werner Bergmann
cut	Evelyn Carow
occupation
Peter Prager : Becker Uwe Zerbe : Pankonin Eberhard Kirchberg : Koralewski Detlef Gieß : Kuschke Donatas Banionis : Mauris Margarita Terechowa : Svetlana Yevgeny Kindinov : Glunski Mikhail Waskov : Kolya Ivan Lapikov : General Eugen Albert : Peat cutter Bolot Beischenalijew : Kyrgyz Colonel Gerd Blahuschek : Linge Norbert Christian : Schober Jürgen Graf : Rattmann Jürgen Hentsch : tank officer Anatoly Papanov : Lopatkin Martin Trettau : Kosel Klaus Piontek : Speaker

Mama, I'm Alive is one of the last films by director Konrad Wolf . Screenplay writer Wolfgang Kohlhaase had already given the material questions to a photo design in the radio play in 1969 . The film was shot in 1976 among others in the Soviet Union ; the premiere took place on February 24, 1977.

action

In a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp, the German soldiers Becker, Pankonin, Koralewski and Kuschke decided to work with the Red Army against the German troops. The Baltic-Soviet Major Mauris accompanied the new comrades, who were now wearing Soviet uniforms, to the front.

On their long journey in the train, which is very comfortable for war conditions, the four get to know the people and living conditions of the country they once fought and think about their situation. The viewer gradually learns the story of each and every one of them and can understand their inner development.

When they arrived at the front, only three of them decided to take up armed struggle against their compatriots. At the crucial moment, however, they hesitate to shoot them, killing their Soviet comrade and friend Kolya.

Meanwhile, the fourth of them, Pankonin, has taken on the task of listening to German radio messages together with the Red Army soldier Swetlana. Svetlana and he fall in love.

Eventually three of them, determined by lot, were dropped off behind enemy lines in German uniforms for a commando operation and died while trying to get back to the Soviet side. Svetlana's lover Pankonin is among the dead.

Only Becker survived, who had received a slip of paper from a German inmate in the prison camp with his address and the sentence “Mama, I'm alive”.

Awards

• Berlinale 1977 : Interfilm Prize "Special Mention"
• 1977: FDGB art prize to director Konrad Wolf
• 1977: Avellino International Film Festival of Neorealist Films : Silver Medal

literature

• The second life of the film city Babelsberg: DEFA-Spielfilme 1946–1992 , published by Filmmuseum Potsdam; Editor: Ralf Schenk; Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1994

Web links

• Mom, I live in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mom, I live at filmportal.de
• Mom, I live with the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Director: Helmut Hellstorff , printed in: Neue Deutsche Literatur , 1970, No. 1.