Stauffenberg - The real story
Stauffenberg - The true story (1st and 2nd part) is a two-part German television production. The documentary from 2009 tells of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944 .
The first part is called Stauffenberg - The true story: The assassin , the second part is called Stauffenberg - The true story: The assassination .
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Part 1 - the assassin:
The first part traces Stauffenberg's curriculum vitae from joining the Reichswehr to his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War and his decision to eliminate Hitler . The film ends with the description of the immediate preparations for the assassination.
The contemporary witnesses who have their say in the first part are: Ewald von Kleist (conspirator of July 20), Richard von Weizsäcker (was first lieutenant at the time - knew about the plan), Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg (daughter of Stauffenberg), Berthold Graf von Stauffenberg (Stauffenberg's eldest son), Otto Phillip Graf von Stauffenberg (Stauffenberg's nephew), Ulrich de Maizière (officer in the general staff), Freya von Moltke (civil resistance), Raban von Canstein (officer at Manstein), Horst von Oppenfeld ( orderly officer at Stauffenberg) and Klaus Burk (Ordonnanzoffizier at Stauffenberg). Also having their say: Peter Hoffmann (Stauffenberg biographer), Thomas Karlauf ( Stefan George biographer) and Peter Steinbach (resistance expert).
Part 2 - The Assassination:
The second part focuses on the actual attack.
The contemporary witnesses who have their say in the second part are: Ewald von Kleist (conspirator of July 20), Berthold Graf von Stauffenberg (Stauffenberg's eldest son), Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg (daughter of Stauffenberg), Christoph Scheibler (orderly officer in the " Wolfschanze "), Kurt Salterberg (guard area 1a), Erich Kretz ( driver standby "Wolfschanze"), Erwin Schenzel (intelligence officer in the Bendler block ), Alfons Schulz (radio operator in the "Wolfschanze"), Rudolf Kuphal (was then in the Bendler block) and Joachim Fuchs (radio operator in the Bendlerblock). Also having their say: Peter Steinbach (historian) (resistance expert), Peter Hoffmann (Stauffenberg biographer) and Bernhard Kroener (historian and Fromm biographer).
background
The film was produced by Loopfilm GmbH for ZDF . During the production of the film, a lot was reconstructed in great detail. For example, the briefcase in which Stauffenberg placed the explosives on July 20, 1944, was recreated according to information from Gestapo files . Other things were generated by computer, for example the Spitfires attacking a convoy . The off-screen comments were made by Christian Schult .
The documentary was shot in Bamberg and Berlin , Germany as well as in Poland and Tunisia .
The film was shown for the first time on January 13, 2009 (1st part) and on January 20, 2009 (2nd part) on the television of the Second German Television. On July 18, 2010, two days before the actual memorial day, and on July 19, 2010, the television production ran again on television, this time on Phoenix .
The film has not yet been released on video or DVD.
criticism
The star wrote: “There was a lot of fuss about the filming and casting of the Hollywood film Operation Walküre with Tom Cruise as Hitler's assassin Stauffenberg. One week before the US strip starts in German cinemas, ZDF is showing a docu-drama about Stauffenberg and attaches great importance to facts. ”And thus indicated that this two-parter is much more historical than the film adaptation with Tom Cruise.
In FAZ.NET one could read: “[…] Knopp's team of course hardly listens. It is not without pathos that one tailors the two-parter to a poem that Stauffenberg's wife wrote shortly after the failed assassination attempt: “Beloved child! Be strong, be an inheritance to me! Wherever you are, I'll be with you! "What that means: to consider yourself the heir of Stauffenberg, one asks in vain about this film."
The Berliner Zeitung wrote: “[...] the speaker is very busy putting a dash in every sentence. Just as it has been fashionable for some time to raise your voice a little at the end of a sentence and thus give every statement a quiet question mark. Both are annoying and unnecessary, and in the speaker's indent sentences there is an added complication that there are often more strokes than thoughts. […] Otherwise it's a typical docudrama by Guido Knopp, little documentary, a lot of drama. In particular, the second part of the real story, which describes the assassination, consists largely of re-enacted game scenes. In the first part, which is dedicated to Stauffenberg as a person, they are not quite as superficial. And yet the most touching scene comes from a contemporary witness from the second part. [...] On the evening of July 20, he had to take part in the shooting of Stauffenberg and the others in the Bendlerblock. 'You can't deal with that at the moment,' he says. 'The soul gets sick, it suffers.' Then he shakes his head and cries. "
The Süddeutsche Zeitung : “All of this is technically clean 'histotainment', but superfluous. There are more than half a dozen films about July 20th, some good ones (Jo Baier, 2004). The attack is known to everyone who is a little interested in the German resistance. The missing package of explosives, the misplaced briefcase, the hiccups in Berlin: not new. Tom Cruise has to tell the world again. But the ZDF? Knopp promised the 'true story', but he only delivers the well-known one. "
Web links
- Stauffenberg - The True Story in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stauffenberg - The true story online film database
- Video interview on the ZDF docudrama Stauffenberg - The true story
References and comments
- ↑ Participating companies. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ TV feature film - 20:15 in the TV documentary ; Retrieved July 18, 2010
- ↑ locations. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Start dates. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ a b A typical button . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 13, 2009
- ↑ Stauffenberg - The true story . World online
- ↑ Stauffenberg - The true story . Phoenix
- ↑ A book by Guido Knopp with the title: Stauffenberg - The true story , however, was published in 2008.
- ↑ The ZDF precedes Tom Cruise . In: Stern , January 13, 2009
- ↑ Stauffenberg film - Be strong, be an inheritance to me! FAZ.NET January 2009