Report 57
Movie | |
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Original title | Report 57 |
Country of production | GDR |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1959 |
length | 104 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 6 |
Rod | |
Director | János Veiczi |
script |
Lothar Dutombé János Veiczi |
production | DEFA |
music | Peter Fischer |
camera | Hans Hauptmann |
cut | Ursula Kahlbaum |
occupation | |
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Report 57 is a DDR - Drama of 1959 a Berlin East couple that with the lure and criminal activities of the West is struggling.
action
The young couple Inge and Heinz lived in East Berlin in 1957. Inge works as an animation girl in the uncle's pub . Most of the time, Heinz is employed in a West Berlin car workshop where his father is a master craftsman. Inge does not like these activities and surroundings of the two. She gives up her bar job and starts working as a waitress in the HO restaurant “Zenner” . Inge asks her husband Heinz to find a serious, regulated job in the “ democratic sector ” . While Heinz is still busy in the western part of the city, he - unsuspectingly - gets caught up in a gang . However, he realizes in good time that he is involved in criminal machinations and notifies the People's Police . The entire gang is arrested and Inge picks up Heinz from the police station. Then Heinz explains that now he too will start a new life in the eastern part of the city.
Production and publication
Working title of this DEFA - black and white film were: " What man needs " and " 14 days of my life ." The premiere was on April 3, 1959 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . The film was released on April 10, 1959.
Reviews
In New Germany Elvira Mollenschott said in April 1959:
“The camera stays on the surface of the phenomena. Sector boundary signs, S-Bahn and U-Bahn trains are the props used all too often for this Berlin film, which hardly ever gets to the bottom of a problem, not even that of crossing borders. Compared to some of DEFA's other Berlin films - it is worth remembering above all 'Berlin - corner Schönhauser' ' Reportage 57' is no progress. Unfortunately, director Janos Veiczi cannot even be confirmed that he managed to maintain their artistic level. "
The lexicon of international film means: "Entertainment that is equally simple in terms of craftsmanship and ideology."
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 481 to 482 .
Web links
- Reportage 57 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Report 57 at filmportal.de
- Movie posters from Reportage 57 on flimmerkiste.bplaced.net
- Report 57 at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ defa-stiftung.de
- ↑ filmstarts.de
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from April 6, 1959, p. 3