Rendezvous with unknown

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Movie
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

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

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

  1. "Holidays at the lake"
  2. "Greetings from over there"
  3. "M- like Mauser"
  4. "Berlin-W Adieu!"
  5. "Dead Mailbox"
  6. "Frogman to Poland"
  7. "Hot wire in the tap"
  8. "Crosses in the grid"
  9. "Evening walk"
  10. "Gliding lessons"
  11. "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

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