Raid (1947)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Raid |
| Country of production | Germany (East) |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Klingler |
| script | Harald G. Petersson |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera |
Friedl Behn-Grund , Eugen Klagemann |
| cut | Fritz Stapenhorst |
| occupation | |
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Razzia is a German crime film by DEFA by Werner Klingler from 1947. The fifth DEFA film was also their first crime film.
action
Berlin , shortly after the end of the war : the black market is flourishing in the ruins of the city . Detective Inspector Naumann and his two colleagues Heinz Becker and Karl Lorenz, fiancé of Naumann's daughter Anna, try to put an end to a group of alcohol smugglers. However, a raid on the "Alibaba" bar, suspected of being a transhipment point, fails because there is apparently a mole in Naumann's group . In fact, Heinz Becker is a slave to the singer Yvonne, who appears at Alibaba. He told her about the planned raid and Yvonne's boss Goll uses the opportunity to blackmail Heinz Becker. Becker unintentionally becomes an informant for Goll.
Inspector Naumann experiences a private joy: his son Paul returns home from captivity . The time together only lasts for a short time. When Naumann goes it alone and looks behind the scenes of Alibaba and discovers a secret passage that is used for smuggling goods, he is murdered. A little later, children find his body while playing. Karl Lorenz wants to find the murderer.
Soon the unemployed musician Paul is hired as a smuggler by his former war comrade Willi. In his financial hardship and in order to be able to please his mother every now and then, he works as a pusher. In addition to Willi, the forwarding agent Mierisch also works for Goll , in whose warehouse the goods are handled. With the first cigarette cartons acquired in this way, Paul built up a small existence as a black market trader until Lorenz found out about him during a family visit. A dispute ensues and in the end it is Anna who takes away his contraband and gives Lorenz over. In the meantime, he has made inquiries at Alibaba and is reported as a possible mole by Heinz Becker, forced by Goll to do so, to his superior, Detective Hugo Lembke. Lembke informs Becker and Lorenz independently of each other that he wants to carry out a raid on Alibaba. Becker rushes to Alibaba to warn Yvonne and so exposes himself as a mole. Paul is meanwhile working as a driver for a large drug smuggling organized by Goll.
At Alibaba there is a dispute between Goll and Becker, who no longer wants to work as an informant. Becker holds Goll up to know everything about his machinations. Mierisch murdered Naumann in Goll's name at the time - Paul overhears the conversation unrecognized and realizes that he is making common cause with his father's murderer. He armed himself with a revolver. Meanwhile, Becker is brutally beaten up by Goll. Lembke and his men carry out the raid on Alibaba ahead of schedule. When Goll tries to escape through the back door, he, like Mierisch and Willi, is stopped by Paul, who threatens them with a pistol. The following police officers in turn receive help from Becker. Together we succeed in arresting all perpetrators.
Paul gets away with a suspended sentence. He has finally found a job as a musician. Anna and Karl Lorenz are getting married. To celebrate, Lembke gives them a handsome bouquet of flowers - since there are no flowers, Lembke had to get them from the black market.
production
Razzia was filmed in the Atelier Berlin-Johannisthal and in Berlin and the surrounding area. You can see the Reichstag , the Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate , among other things . In the film, Nina Konsta sings two hits in scenes around the Alibaba bar, for which Günther Schwenn wrote the lyrics. Bruno Monden and Otto Hunte created the film structures, Willi Herrmann was production manager.
The film had its premiere on May 2, 1947 in the German State Opera Berlin . The first crime film was received extremely positively by the audience and, along with Marriage in the Shadow, was the most popular DEFA film of those years with eight million viewers and is one of the most successful DEFA films of all. As an exchange film between Central Germany and West Germany, its West German premiere took place on October 15, 1948 in Solingen .
criticism
Contemporary critics stated that DEFA had set high standards with its first films. "Now, within these limits, the consumer goods come into production - contemporary and realistic here too, they are not without faults in the raw material and manufacture." of the film [...] does not always result in a completely happy marriage - the already abundant paper-based dialogue has a noticeable tendency towards the pastoral, which often paralyzes the tension as well as the actors. "Because the perpetrator was established early for the viewer, "[The film] lacks something of the tingling tension that characterizes the real crime film - which it doesn't want to be either."
The film-dienst wrote: “Current time problems and social criticism after the Second World War in DEFA's first crime film. Not entirely believable, but exciting and historically informative. "
Cinema called Razzia "a respectable crime drama and contemporary document."
literature
- Raid . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 475-476.
Web links
- Raid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Raid on filmportal.de
- Raid on the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. progress-film.de ( memento of the original from November 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 37.
- ↑ See insidekino.de
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 11
- ↑ A realistic time film. Premiere of the DEFA film Razzia in the State Opera . In: Daily Rundschau , Berlin / Ost, May 3, 1947.
- ↑ Helmut Eisel in: Sonntag , No. 19, 1947.
- ^ Raid. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 20, 2018 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
