Dawn (1962/1963)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dawn |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 18 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Hilgert , Gerhard Schmidt |
| script | Gerd Hergen Lübben |
| production | "Cinestudio" (Bonn) |
| music | Georg Müller |
| occupation | |
|
Wolfgang Strohmeyer | |
Dawn is a German short film by director Jürgen Hilgert and producer Gerhard Schmidt (production company "cinestudio", Bonn) from 1963 .
action
The short feature film "Dawn" is about an individual's confrontation with society in the form of a parable: One morning a man wakes up in a forest. Next to him he finds a dummy, a mannequin in the form of a deaf and mute Eve, to whom he can talk about anything and everything, about God and the world. Speaking incessantly, he creates his own world, his own paradise, word for word. When he meets people again, initially stunned by his self-obsessed worldview, he finds, ultimately disappointed, back into the reality of a society, to his happiness.
background
The short feature film - 18 minutes; 35 mm; black-and-white; German-speaking - was developed at the end of 1962 / beginning of 1963 by Jürgen Hilgert and Gerhard Schmidt in collaboration with the author Gerd Hergen Lübben and the composer Georg Müller; the leading role was played by the Contra-Kreis actor Wolfgang Strohmeyer. The filmmaker team Hilgert / Lübben / Müller / Schmidt was already successful in 1961 with the short film " Flucht ", which was sponsored by the "Citizens' Education Center of North Rhine-Westphalia" . - "Dawn" was premiered on February 8, 1963 in Bonn as part of the "Fifth public event of the stage for sensual perception - KONZIL " and then at film festivals in Oberhausen (West German Short Film Festival; awarded here), Mannheim (International Film Week) and Amsterdam ( Criterion - International Film Study Days). “Dawn” made it to German cinemas as a supporting film for the third feature film by director Alain Resnais, “Muriel or The Time of Return” (“Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour”).
reception
Fifty years after the creation and the praised first presentations of the short feature film by Hilgert and Schmidt, “Dawn” must be considered missing, if not lost; “Filmportal.de”: “You saw this film? Then we look forward to your contribution! "
Individual evidence
- ↑ See “Kriterion” program booklet, International Film Study Days, Amsterdam 1963, page 26
- ↑ Cf. “Art exercises of young talents in words and pictures. First public evening of the Bonn 'Council' with three world premieres ”; in: "Bonner Rundschau", July 4, 1961.
- ^ "Federal Film Prize to Bonn. Team Hilgert-Schmidt received cultural film award ”; in: Bonner Rundschau, October 14, 1964.
- ↑ Inquiries about IMDb and the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv remain unsuccessful.
- ↑ "Filmportal.de" (as of August 12, 2013): short feature film Dawn .
Web links
- KOBV search: Dawn
- Filmportal.de: Short feature film Dawn
- Gerd Hergen Lübben: " Dawn (1963) "