Star without a sky (film)

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Movie
Original title Star without a sky
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1981
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ottokar Runze
script Leonie Ossowski
production Ottokar Runze
music Hans-Martin Majewski
camera Michael Epp
cut Inge P. Drestler
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Stern ohne Himmel is a German drama film by Ottokar Runze , made in 1980 and set in the final phase of the Second World War , about children who save a Jewish peer from deportation. The story is based on the novel of the same name (1958) by Leonie Ossowski , who also wrote the screenplay.

action

Spring 1945, the “Greater German Reich” crumbles in the face of the impending military defeat. In Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, four 15-year-old youths discovered a food depot that was spilled by the debris of the war. You discover a cellar full of ham, sausages, preserves and canned goods. Paradise seems to have broken out for the four before the general horror comes to an end. But Antek, one of the four boys, discovers a little later a little boy who has escaped from a concentration camp and who has found a hiding place right here, in the basement, on this island of plenty, in order to survive the Nazi madness. His name is Abiram and is now, for better or worse, dependent on the benevolence of Willi, Antek, Zick and Paule, who are almost the same age.

The boys, some of whom have been ethically and morally marked by the twelve years of Hitler’s dictatorship, do not agree on how to deal with Abiram. While three of them think that it is imperative to protect the boy from the access of his captors shortly before the gate closes, Willi, a convinced HJ brown shirt, is still completely on the party line and reports Abiram to the school principal. However, it is also clear to everyone that the small food paradise discovered and protected by the four will also be exposed. Willi, who could not jump over his shadow and denounce Abiram, has to pay for his betrayal with his life in the end. Abiram has to flee again, but this time he has three friends who - long since lost faith in “Führer” and “final victory” - help him. In the midst of Russian shell fire, the remaining children try to get to safety.

Production notes

Stern ohne Himmel was created between March 27 and April 28, 1980 in Berlin (West) . The strip premiered on April 24, 1981. It was first broadcast on television on September 15, 1982 on ARD .

Others

While director Runze largely stuck to Ossowski's literary model, the young people involved pushed him to change one point: unlike in the novel, the traitor Willi does not survive the war, but perishes.

Reviews

The numerous reviews of this film were all in all quite positive. Below is an overview:

In Vorwärts it was said: “Runze have succeeded ... pictures of oppressive intensity. So relaxed, so tight, as seldom in a film about the greater German Götterdämmerung. "

The taz wrote: “... I recommend STAR WITHOUT HEAVEN to all young people who want to learn a little more about the time of National Socialism than can be read in the history books. It's an honest, realistic, and extremely tough film whose young actors couldn't have been better chosen. You don't play. You live"

The Lexicon of International Films found that the film, "Although in parts too much attached to the television dramaturgy, is an important contribution to contemporary history".

The film's large lexicon of people called the film "remarkable" and "a plea for humanity in dire straits."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Star without a sky on children's film correspondence
  2. ↑ Base film: 60 years of the end of the war
  3. ↑ Star without a sky. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 680.