My best enemy (film)

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Movie
Original title My best Enemy
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Country of production Austria
Luxembourg
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Wolfgang Murnberger
script Paul Hengge ,
Wolfgang Murnberger
production Josef Aichholzer ,
Jani Thiltges
music Matthias Weber
camera Peter von Haller
cut Evi Romen
occupation

My best enemy is the title of an Austrian-Luxembourgish feature film by Wolfgang Murnberger released in 2011 . The director wrote the script together with Paul Hengge based on his novel How Victor Kaufmann managed to survive Adolf Hitler after all . The film with Moritz Bleibtreu and Georg Friedrich in the leading roles was shown in Austrian cinemas from March 11, 2011, and in Germany from September 1, 2011.

action

Vienna, shortly after the annexation of Austria to the German Empire : Victor Kaufmann and Rudi Smekal have been friends since their early childhood. But the new socio-political conditions put their friendship to the test. Because Victor is a Jew, Rudi is considered a German according to the Nuremberg race laws . Victor and his parents Hannah and Jakob Kaufmann were unable to flee Austria in time and are therefore deported to Mauthausen concentration camp . Rudi, meanwhile, joins the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and the SS , and hopes to make a career in Hitler's party. Rudi also becomes engaged to Lena, Victor's former fiancé.

A few years later Rudi visits his former friend Victor in the concentration camp. The reason, however, is not very friendly. In the now “Aryanized” possession of the Kaufmann family there is a drawing by the Italian painter Michelangelo . This should be handed over from Hitler to Benito Mussolini as a sign of the brotherhood of arms . But it was found that it is a copy. Victor is now supposed to tell the SS where his late father hid the original. To do this, the SS took him to Berlin in a plane. His former friend Rudi is also on board. On the way, the plane is shot at by Polish resistance fighters and it crashes.

Victor is able to free Rudi from the wreck, but then makes a momentous decision: In a shed he exchanges clothes with Rudi. Now he is wearing an SS uniform and Rudi is wearing the shabby prisoner garb with a Jewish star . The transformation is complete because no German thinks Rudi is one of them. On the other hand, Victor always has to fear of being discovered. Victor devises a plan to help his mother, who is still alive, escape to Switzerland. For this he is apparently ready to leave the picture to the Nazis.

In the end he is exposed and taken prisoner again by the SS. Together with Rudi and his commanders, he returns to the family's former home. There he notices that his father has hidden the original in a self-portrait of himself, but he does not reveal it. Instead, the SS finds another copy of Michelangelo, and they now believe they have the original in their hands.

Victor finally survived the war and returned to Vienna with his mother and his lover Lena. Rudi has reopened the family's former gallery there and would like to auction the paintings of the Kaufmann family and the presumed original by Michelangelo at his first major auction. To ease his guilty conscience, Rudi gave Victor the portrait of his father free of charge. Almost at the same time, an expert found out that the picture to be auctioned was not the original, and the media pounced on Rudi. He sees Victor and his family leave outside with the original picture of Michelangelo in their hands.

background

The film was shot in Vienna and Lower Austria .

During the 2011 Berlinale , Mein bester Feind ran out of competition in the competition program.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for My Best Enemy . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ My best enemy on Filmstarts.de