Stauffenberg (film)
Stauffenberg is the title of a German-Austrian television film from 2004. The television film was first broadcast on February 25, 2004 on First German Television .
About the film
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg becomes an opponent of National Socialist politics when Colonel Henning von Tresckow informed him about the war crimes of the Germans behind the Russian front. On July 20, 1944 , after several unsuccessful attempts, Stauffenberg had the chance to get close to the dictator Hitler with a bomb in his briefcase and to activate a time fuse. Although Hitler survived the assassination attempt, Stauffenberg and the rebel officers in Berlin try to carry out the coup anyway. The uprising finally collapses just before midnight. Stauffenberg speaks of his dream of a peace-loving Germany. Immediately afterwards, on Fromm's orders, the colonel and three co-conspirators were shot dead in the courtyard of the Bendler block in Berlin. The final scene is Tresckov's suicide near the Russian front. He wanted to protect the members of the conspiracy and his family.
The Stauffenberg biographer Peter Hoffmann distanced himself from the television film Jo Baiers. Hoffmann criticized that the film Stauffenberg appeared "as if he had never specifically and explicitly condemned the mass murder of the Jews." The opposite is proven. Jo Baier had contacted Hoffmann and other historians to get her scientific blessing. Hoffmann saw his 15-page report ignored and withdrew his name.
In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Stauffenberg's son Berthold complained about the fictional elements of the television film:
- “My experience with feature films is that drama always comes before facts. Take Jo Baier's film. The 15-page report that the film people had requested from Stauffenberg specialist Peter Hoffmann was completely ignored. "
- “I'm still annoyed that I went to the premiere in Berlin. For example, it is not the case that my parents got engaged in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in the presence of the Führer. You got engaged somewhere else for my father's 23rd birthday. My father was probably never even in Bayreuth. So that's not true. "
- “The thing with General Fellgiebel drunk at the toilet: invented. Or meeting a Ukrainian. Or this built-up conflict with my mother. Or the description of my father's last visit. Everything invented. "
Reviews
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Frank Schirrmacher: “This is the most precise film about the assassination attempt of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg that has been shot so far. And it is the most incomplete. "
- Süddeutsche Zeitung : "Excellent actors."
- kino.de : “With 'Stauffenberg', Jo Baier delivers an outstanding, attractively photographed and long overdue film about one of the heroes of the resistance against the Nazi regime. Sebastian Koch shines in the title role and the supporting roles are also well cast. Especially after the first third, when the day of the attack and the consequences are described, the drama gains strength and dynamism. Baier deliberately refrains from lengthy explanations, which only benefits the tension. In doing so, the director succeeds in not portraying Stauffenberg as an idealized moral hero with a pure white vest, which is all the more impressive as a monument to his civil courageous actions. "
- TV feature film : "Shocking, impressive, honorable."
literature
- Drehli Robnik: Aesthetics of History and Affect Politics . Stauffenberg and July 20 in the film 1948-2008. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85132-557-7 .
Awards
Among other things, the film received three nominations and an award at the German Television Prize :
- nomination
- Best Male Lead Actor
- Best cut
- Best music
- Best movie
- Award
- Best movie
See also
Further cinematic adaptations of July 20th:
- 1955: July 20th
- 1955: It happened on July 20th
- 1971: Operation Walküre , German television film
- 1990: Stauffenberg - conspiracy against Hitler
- 2004: The Officers' Hour , semi-documentary film
- 2005: Stauffenberg (TV documentary) The Conspiracy - the July 20 assassination attempt
- 2009: Operation Walküre - The Stauffenberg Assassination , American film by Bryan Singer with Tom Cruise as Stauffenberg
Web links
- Stauffenberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Stauffenberg . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2004 (PDF; test number: 98 077 V / DVD).
- ↑ - Matthias Lohre, The assassination attempt as a moral dimension against those in power ( Memento from February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de - June 22, 2007
- ^ "Stauffenberg" - a history film without a story
- ^ "Stauffenberg" - July 20, 1944 - Filmkritik kino.de accessed on July 20, 2013
- ^ "Stauffenberg" - TV political drama about the men who wanted to kill Hitler tvspielfilm.de accessed on July 20, 2013