Battlefields
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Battlefields |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 51 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Voigt |
| script | Peter Voigt |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| camera | Winfried Goldner |
| cut | Peter Voigt |
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Battlefields is a documentary film by DEFA Studio for Documentaries by Peter Voigt from 1986 .
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The film begins with shots from today's Volgograd and the hint that you are always in two cities at the same time, because Stalingrad is omnipresent. Today Stalingrad is no longer the name for a city, but just a world historical legend. Two million soldiers faced each other here and on the soil of this city on the Volga the Red Army forced the Second World War to reverse in the winter of 1942/1943 , after which Stalingrad was just a huge dump of rubble. The following photos show new buildings that were built in the first years of peace.
At the other end of Europe, another battlefield comes into focus in France , overgrown trenches, shell holes and minefields are still evidence of the Battle of Verdun . From February to September 1916, the Germans and French fought heavy fighting during World War I. In contrast to Stalingrad, the fighting took place here at the gates of the city.
The film deals with these battles of two world wars, shows shots of life in the present day and how the past is dealt with. What remains is the knowledge of the inhumanity of war and the fragility of peace.
Production and publication
Battlefields was filmed under the working title Volgograd - Jetztzeit on ORWO -Color and had its first verifiable performance in the series Offers at the Babylon cinema in Berlin on January 8, 1986 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 2, 1986, p. 9