Days of storm
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Days of storm |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Freundner |
| script |
Hans-Werner Honert Erich Loest |
| production | Hans-Werner Honert |
| music | JJ Gerndt |
| camera | Benjamin Dernbecher |
| cut | Margrit Schulz |
| occupation | |
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Days of the Storm is a German television film from 2003. The film was produced by MDR and had its premiere on May 7, 2003 in the first program of ARD . Using a fictional family fate, he deals with the events of June 17, 1953 in the GDR .
action
Hartmut Brücken works in the Bitterfeld chemical works as an industrial foreman, his wife Claudia at the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Brücken receives a job offer including a new apartment in the Mecklenburg province, but his wife does not want to go there. The marital dispute was interrupted on June 17, 1953 by the workers' protests in Berlin . The strikes spread to Bitterfeld, where Brücken is involved in the strike leadership and gives a speech at a rally. Claudia's father Alfred Mannschatz, who was still a member of the SPD before 1933 , also gets into a dispute with his friend Bruno Pfefferkorn, the head of the Stasi in Bitterfeld. In the course of the day, Soviet tanks finally put an end to the workers' protest. Hartmut Brücken has to flee. He says goodbye to Claudia and escapes his captors to West Germany. The pregnant Claudia stays behind and is arrested. The SED regains control, the insurgents are sentenced to prison terms.
background
The Leipzig writer Erich Loest researched the events of June 17, 1953 in Central Germany for this film and wrote the screenplay together with the producer Hans-Werner Honert. Director Thomas Freundner had already made the documentary film Sehnsucht nach Bitterfeld in 1992 about what happened there after German reunification. The shooting of the day of the storm took place from July 24th to August 31st, 2002 in Beuthen , Gleiwitz and near Breslau in Poland .
criticism
“Conventionally designed (television) drama which, pretending to be popular, puts private [sic] fate before contemporary relevance. A few confusing and inconsistently conceived figures is contrasted by the figure of a Stasi man who is very differentiated and multi-layered played by Hans Peter Hallwachs, who prevents an overly rough black and white drawing in the juxtaposition of the good and the bad. "
Web links
- Day of the storm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Days of the Storm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 30, 2017 .