Mother Courage and Her Children (1961)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Mother Courage and her children |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 151 minutes |
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| Director |
Bertolt Brecht (theater) Erich Engel (theater) Manfred Wekwerth (film) Peter Palitzsch (film) |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Paul Dessau |
| camera | Harry Bremer |
| cut | Ella Ensink |
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Mother Courage and Her Children is DEFA's recording, created between 1959 and 1961, of a production by Manfred Wekwerth and Peter Palitzsch at the Berliner Ensemble based on a model production by Bertolt Brecht and Erich Engel from 1949.
action
production
Mother Courage and her children was shot as a black and white film in Totalvision . The festive premiere took place on February 10, 1961 in the presence of the East German Minister of Culture Alexander Abusch as well as other personalities and the filmmakers in the Berlin OTL (Oranienburger Tor Lichtspiele) cinema . At the same time, on the occasion of Bertolt Brecht's 63rd birthday, the film premiered in all 14 district capitals of the GDR. The film was shown for the first time in Germany in October 1962 at the Mannheim International Film Week . In the other cinemas it was on March 12, 1965 and was recommended in June 1965 by the Evangelical Film Guild as Best Film of the Month . The Austrian premiere took place in August 1962 in Salzburg .
It was first broadcast on GDR television on March 27, 1973 in the first program.
criticism
Henryk Keisch found in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland that in the staging of this film one can find the complete and faithful representation of the play, which was recently shown for the 400th time in the Berliner Ensemble with undiminished effect after many years of running. This attempt to combine theater with film is not a new form of art, but it is very successful.
Helmut Ullrich von der Neue Zeit discovered that by bringing the camera up close to the faces you could see a lot that you missed in the theater. It is the gestures and looks that you otherwise cannot see due to the spatial distance between the stage and the parquet.
Awards
- 1961: Youth literature diploma at the XIV Locarno International Film Festival
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 424 to 425 .
Web links
- Mother Courage and Her Children in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mother Courage and her children at filmportal.de
- Mother Courage and her children in the dictionary of international films
- Mother Courage and her children at the DEFA Foundation