Pianke (film)
Pianke is a feature film of the DEFA commissioned by the television of the GDR by Gunter Friedrich from the year 1983 based on the novel Pianke of Peter Abraham from the year 1981st
action
At the end of the Second World War , a sailing boat moves on a river between the fighting troops of the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army. When the German guns set their sights on the boat, the inmates began to sing the folk song May has come , after which the shelling stopped. Now the story is told of how this situation came about, which began about two years earlier.
Mr. Groß is sitting with his son Andreas in the air raid shelter of his house. After the all-clear, an air raid officer told him that two plainclothes policemen were waiting in front of his apartment. So the two of them don't go upstairs, but into a gazebo that Andreas father had already bought. On the way there, the father explains the reasons for the change of location, which are of a political nature and that Andreas is now called Diethelm Krüger. In the allotment garden colony they are eavesdropped by the curious block warden Herms, whose father pretends to be an employee of Heinrich Hoffmann , the house photographer of Adolf Hitler. The boy's hope that from now on he will no longer have to go to school is unfortunately not fulfilled. The teacher also gives him a new nickname. Since he is not very strongly built, he calls him Pianke, which is the expression for vertigo wheat in the market.
One night a strange man is standing in the arbor with a Jewish star. He was able to provide credible assurance that he is the previous owner of the property and only wants to get a few hidden letters from his late wife. But Elias Schmuckstein is not ready to let Pianke's father help her to go into hiding. But when he visits again, he comes by with a backdated purchase contract for his sailboat, which he sells for a symbolic three marks. But he would be grateful if Father (Grand) / Krüger would take in the Jewish girl Rachel. The girl is already at the door, is now called Irma and is Pianke's cousin from now on. She just can't go to school, because Yiddish can be clearly heard in her pronunciation.
The three of them are slowly running out of food, because Pianke's father can no longer produce forged passports because he lacks certain materials. After much deliberation, he sends his son to a friend's photo shop to get the things. Miss Heumeier procures the materials on the same day, but tries to find out Pianke's whereabouts. The reason for this is a personal interest in his father, whose wife died a long time ago. With a trick, she finds out the address, which Pianke is very uncomfortable, especially when he realizes that the young woman will live in the arbor with him.
production
Pianke was shot on ORWO -Color and had its first broadcast on January 9, 1983 in the first program of East German television .
The filming locations included the former Haus der Technik and later the Kunsthaus Tacheles on Oranienburger Strasse and the Potsdam-Babelsberg S-Bahn station in Berlin .
Pianke was released on DVD on September 1st, 2017.
criticism
In Neues Deutschland, Peter Hoff remarked about the film that the film's scriptwriter and author of the children's book of the same name, Peter Abraham, created a meaningful fable and an oppressive image of the time in many details. The well-considered film dramaturgy of Anne Goßens also contributed to the great political and poetic power of the film.
The Lexicon of International Films states that television films depict everyday life in Germany in the Third Reich in an exciting way that is appropriate for children.
Awards
- 1983: Children's film festival “Goldener Spatz” - honorary award of the jury of the young audience for feature film / television play
- 1983: Children's film festival “Goldener Spatz” - special award from the Minister for Popular Education
Web links
- Pianke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pianke at filmportal.de
- Pianke in the online dictionary of television in the GDR
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland on January 12, 1983, p. 4
- ↑ Pianke. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .