Report 57

Movie
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
Annekathrin Bürger : Inge Willi Schrade : Heinz Gerhard Bienert : Father Kramer Wilhelm Koch-Hooge : Lowinsky Edwin Marian : glue bag Paul Berndt : Godelmann Manfred Krug : Bee Gert Andreae : Boy Werner Lierck : Paul Helga Göring : Ms. Mielke Hans Emons : Uncle Erich Eckart Friedrichson : Knopp Hans W. Hamacher : Captain Grünert Herbert Köfer : guest at the restaurant 'Zur Tonne' Jean Brahn : host to the 'sunflower' Gerlind Ahnert : usher in the "Babylon"

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 .

A location for the film: The real restaurant "Zenner"

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

1. ↑ defa-stiftung.de
2. ↑ filmstarts.de
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from April 6, 1959, p. 3