People on the net

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Movie
Original title People on the net
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1959
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Franz Peter Wirth
script Herbert Reinecker
production Film construction production GmbH, Munich
( Hans Abich , Rolf Thiele )
music Hans-Martin Majewski
camera Günther Senftleben
cut Claus from Boro
occupation

Menschen im Netz is a German black and white film from 1959 by Franz Peter Wirth . Herbert Reinecker wrote the script . It is based on the "factual report" of the same name by Will Tremper, published in Stern magazine . The main roles are occupied by Hansjörg Felmy , Johanna von Koczian , Hannes Messemer and Ingeborg Schöner . The film had its cinema premiere on July 23, 1959.

action

Klaus Martens is happy to be home after his release from prison. But it seems strange to him that on the very first day a woman named Olga Hajek shows up in the apartment and sends his wife Gitta an urgent order. Gitta has to leave immediately and doesn't return until hours later. This is repeated over the next few days. Because Gitta does not tell him what she has to do evening after evening in the "Fischer writing and translation office", Klaus becomes suspicious. Finally, he demands that Gitta give up her job at that suspicious company.

Behind the Fischer company is an eastern group of agents. Fischer makes it clear to his employee that he cannot let her go because she already knows too much. Gitta ignores Fischer's warnings. After all, she embarked on this “adventure” for just one reason, to get her husband free, who had been innocently sentenced to a long prison sentence in Leipzig. Fischer had offered her his help, and she had accepted the price. Because she has now reached her goal, she no longer wants to have anything to do with Fischer.

Klaus didn't wait for his wife to quit the translation agency. He secretly watched her meet a smartly dressed gentleman in a hotel bar. It is now clear to him that his wife is cheating on him. Without confronting Gitta, he packs his suitcase and leaves the apartment in anger. Soon after, he regrets his rash actions. When he enters the married apartment, he finds his wife on an armchair with a wire loop around her neck. Suddenly he is scared that the police might mistake him for the murderer. He finds refuge with his work colleague Marianne Gardella. She takes him to the police.

When Klaus comes into the apartment with the detective inspector, the body has disappeared. He receives a letter from the caretaker that a stranger had given him. In it Gitta announces that she has left him; he shouldn't look for her. The police now think Martens is a nutcase. This changes quickly when Braun from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution stands at the door. Braun probably knows why Gitta had to die. When he revealed the circumstances to Martens, Martens feels guilty for the death of his wife. Braun suggests that he play the decoy for the protection of the constitution. Martens initially refuses the order, but Braun doesn’t leave him in peace until he has patted it soft. Martens now has only one desire to convict his wife's murderer. He is becoming increasingly entangled in the invisible network of the secret services. In the end he did see the stranger; however, he manages to go underground at the last moment. Martens realizes that one day he too may suffer the same fate as his wife.

Production notes

The film was made from April 10, 1959 to June 1959 in the Bavaria -Atelier Munich-Geiselgasteig. The buildings were created by the film architects Franz Bi and Max Seefelder . The cloakrooms are from Ilse Dubois . Production management was in the hands of Gottfried Wegeleben . The world premiere took place on July 23, 1959 in Munich (Sendlinger Tor, Rathauslichtspiele).

source

Program for the film: "The New Film Program", published by Heinrich Klemmer Verlag, Mannheim, number 4505

criticism

The lexicon of international films judges ambiguously: “The warning film novel from the time of the“ Cold War ”found good actors and a capable director; It didn't make it any more believable. ” Der Spiegel didn't exactly burst into enthusiasm either:“ The high-spirited calculation made with TV director Franz Peter Wirth after his production of Shaw's 'Heroes' did not work out in this film. After the screenplay, which had been poorly trimmed from material from a magazine [...], Wirth put together a tedious penny colportage about west-east agent activity, which on the whole and in certain parts seems implausible [...]. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ People on the Net at filmportal.de, accessed on November 2, 2019
  2. ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2561
  3. ↑ NEW IN GERMANY People on the Net (Germany). In: Spiegel online. August 26, 1959, accessed July 17, 2015 .