SAS 181 does not answer

Movie
Original title	SAS 181 does not answer
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1959
length	91 minutes
Rod
Director	Carl Balhaus
script	Günter Reisch as Wolfgang Krüger Margot Beichler (dramaturgy)
production	DEFA studio for feature films
music	Helmut Nier
camera	Horst E. Brandt
cut	Use Peters
occupation
Ulrich Thein : Kurt, apprentice in the fish combine Otmar Richter : Hannes, apprentice in the fish combine Rita Gödikmeier : Anke, apprentice in the fish combine Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge : Linnet Erwin Geschonneck : Laue, captain of a fishing trawler Wilhelm Koch-Hooge : Poppe Gustav Püttjer : Jens, fisherman in the fish combine Erich Brauer : Deckhand von Laue Hans Finohr : Wilhelm Kollmorgen Klaus Gendries : Eisermann Fritz Diez : Head of the Combine Harry Hindemith : Danish port captain Hans-Joachim Gläser : Spuchti Gerd Scheibel : Crumple Klaus Erforth : Hicker Monika Lennartz : Snippets Erik S. Klein : radio operator Adolf Peter Hoffmann : Danish policeman Carl Balhaus : Stieseck Rudolf Ulrich : Comrade von Laue Horst Buder : Atze Ernst-Georg Schwill : Kalle

SAS 181 does not answer is a DEFA - feature film by Carl Balhaus from 1959, of the fishery on the -Milieu Baltic coast of East Germany and on the Danish island of Bornholm plays. SAS is the fishing identifier for Sassnitz , SAS 181 a fictional fishing boat a fishing Combine .

action

Kurt, Hannes and Anke work together as apprentices in a fish combine in Saßnitz. At a sailboat - Regatta of the Society for Sport and Technology overestimated Kurt his skills and causes an accident, for which he will be reprimanded. He feels that he has been treated unfairly and finds captain Laue understanding for his bravado. Laue was a boatswain in the Navy during World War II .

Laue takes Kurt and Hannes as well as the old fisherman Jens, who moved from Bremerhaven to the GDR due to the high unemployment in West Germany , as a team. Laue is considered a successful captain with whom a good catch is in prospect.

Surprisingly, Laue heads for the Danish island of Bornholm with the cutter SAS 181 under a pretext . Kurt and Hannes shadow Laue in a bar and learn that Laue and the deckhand are leaving the GDR and want to sell the cutter abroad. With the help of the Danish police and Jens', the boys are able to prevent the boat from being handed over to a buyer, but they have to take the boat back to Saßnitz on a stormy crossing, while Laue remains on Bornholm.

production

SAS 181 does not answer was filmed from 1958 under the working title SOS mission for Ilona . Rosemarie Wandelt created the costumes, Alfred Hirschmeier designed the film . Adolf Fischer was in charge of production , while Roland Dressel acted as camera assistant. The film had its premiere on July 3, 1959 in the Berlin Colosseum .

criticism

Horst Knietzsch criticized the staging rather than the topic in 1959 in the film mirror :

“The heroes of the film do their job well, because they are much more children of our republic than they admit to themselves… Unfortunately, the artistic implementation of the material by the director was not always successful. There are all sorts of technical impurities, the most disturbing is the theatrical staging style, which has nothing to do with modern film direction ... Balhaus has remained a man of the theater ... "

literature

• Ralf Schenk (editor): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA-Spielfilme 1946-1992 , Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89487-175-X , p. 395.
• SAS 181 does not answer . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 503-504.

Web links

• SAS 181 does not respond in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• SAS 181 does not respond to filmportal.de
• SAS 181 does not respond to the DEFA foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Knietzsch: The sea and the waves of love. Two DEFA premieres: “SAS 181 does not answer” and “Senta goes astray” . In: Filmspiegel , No. 16, 1959, p. 5.