Rendezvous with unknown
Movie | |
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Original title | Rendezvous with unknown |
Country of production | GDR |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1969 |
Rod | |
Director | János Veiczi |
script | János Veiczi Harry Thürk (scenario) Hans-Jürgen Faschina (dramaturgy) |
production |
Heinz Kuschke (production manager) DEFA studio for feature films |
music |
Günter Hauk , based on motifs from Béla Bartók's Allegro barbaro played by the Dresdner Tanzsinfoniker under the direction of Günter Hörig and the music corps of the guard regiment "Feliks Dzierzynski" |
camera | Siegfried Mogel |
cut |
Karin Kusche (episode 1-7) , Hildegard Conrad-Nöller (episode 2, 4-7) , Brigitte Krex (episode 8-11) , Wolfgang Hartwig (episode 8-9) , Margrit Brusendorf (episode 10) , Bärbel Bauersfeld ( Episode 11) |
occupation | |
I: Holidays at the lake
II: Greetings from over there
III: M for Mauser
IV: Berlin-W Adieu!
V: Gliding lessons
VI: Dead mailbox
VII: Frogman to Poland
VIII: Hot wire in the tap
IX: evening stroll
X: crosses in the grid
XI: piano lessons
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Rendezvous with unknown (subtitle reports from the pioneering days of the GDR's defense organs ) is a television series of the German television broadcasting company from 1969, which was developed in cooperation with the Ministry for State Security . According to its own information, authentic cases from the period from 1952 to 1954 were reproduced in it. The series consisted of eleven 25-minute episodes and was first broadcast from October 8 to December 17, 1969. She was the successor series of three of the K .
action
Each episode begins with a documentary opening credits in which the political background to the main story is discussed. It ends with the line: the plot is based on true events . The action time is the years 1952 to 1954.
The protagonists are Major Wendt, around 40 years old, formerly a KPD member ("I wore the red triangle ..."), who was imprisoned in a German concentration camp for political reasons during the Second World War , and Lieutenant Faber, around 25 years old as his colleague. Their task is to investigate and prevent acts of sabotage as well as to detect and prevent espionage . These are usually West German agent groups such as B. the BND or foreign secret services such as the US MID . In the Froschmann nach Poland episode , Wendt and Faber also work in Warsaw with the Polish ministerial office Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego to prevent a US agent from being smuggled into Poland.
Technical specifications
- Manager : Helmut Bransky, Dieter Krüger
- Camera assistant: Michael Göthe
- Production design: Christoph Schneider
- Lighting: Complex brigade Jürgen Jankowski, collective for socialist work
- Sound: Gerhard Baumgarten, Georg Gutschmidt
- Masks: Klaus Grobbecker, Lydia Beyer
- Costumes: Günter Pohl
- Format: 35 mm film , black and white
criticism
A worthy contribution in the 20th year of our socialist GDR, recognition for 20 years of work by the employees of our Ministry for State Security in the spring of 1970, which played a key role in the creation and success of this eleven-part television series.
Quoted from: Rendezvous with a stranger. In: filmspiegel . No. 21 of October 15, 1969, p. 10f.
Episodes
- "Holidays at the lake"
- "Greetings from over there"
- "M- like Mauser"
- "Berlin-W Adieu!"
- "Dead Mailbox"
- "Frogman to Poland"
- "Hot wire in the tap"
- "Crosses in the grid"
- "Evening walk"
- "Gliding lessons"
- "Piano Lesson"
Lore
In May 2016, Studio Hamburg Enterprises released a complete DVD edition of the series.
See also
literature
- Rendezvous with a stranger. In: filmspiegel . No. 21 of October 15, 1969, p. 10f.
- Katja Stern: Told about an invisible front , in: Neues Deutschland v. December 30, 1969
- Education for knowledge , in: ibid. Of December 3, 1969
- Not just program fillers , in: ibid. October 24, 1969
- Film-biographical yearbook of the GDR 1969
Web links
- List of episodes with brief contents (PDF; 995 kB)
- Rendezvous with unknown in the Internet Movie Database (English)