Tamara (1968)
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| Original title | Tamara |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 86, 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Hansjürgen Pohland |
| script | Hansjürgen Pohland based on the novel “No Schnaps for Tamara” (1966) by Hansjörg Martin |
| production | Hansjürgen Pohland |
| music | Attila Zoller |
| camera | Robert van Ackeren |
| cut | Christa Pohland |
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Tamara is a German feature film from 1967 by Hansjürgen Pohland with the cameraman Petrus Schloemp in one of his few film roles as well as Wolfgang Preiss and Barbara Rütting .
action
The young advertising expert Hans Obuch takes the train from the city north to Hamburg and finds a dead young woman in a compartment. The girl, who will later find out that she died of poisoning, was called Tamara and was obviously violently killed. Whether it's suicide or murder is not entirely clear at the beginning. Shaken by her bleak end, Obuch now begins to research on her own and tries to unravel her life. In doing so, he quickly encounters obstacles and difficulties that a wealthy, well-to-do, “decent” family in a small town begins to cause him.
This family, run by Wilhelm Bricks, the owner of a schnapps factory, apparently has no interest in solving this mysterious case, although or perhaps precisely because Tamara, who came from Algeria, was engaged to one of the sons of the house. All levers are deliberately set in motion to torpedo Obuch's investigation. The man Obuch visited, who once painted Tamara, died a little later. Soon Obuch, too, was in dire danger, although he did not let himself be deterred. In the moor there is finally a showdown and the surprising clarification of Tamara's cruel death. A narrator on the off finally explains at the end that the story is based on a real case that has remained unresolved.
Production notes
The shooting of Tamara began on June 3rd and ended on July 11th, 1967. The shooting took place in the north and surroundings, Norddeich and on the island of Norderney . The film ran in German cinemas on January 25, 1968 (premiere in Oldenburg ).
Tamara actress Judith Topf, who only appears briefly in the picture, was primarily employed as a makeup artist for this film. Jürgen Jürges assisted chief cameraman Robert van Ackeren . Producer and director Pohland also took over the production management.
The author of the novel, Hansjörg Martin , was given a supporting role as a local reporter.
Reviews
"An atmospherically dense crime film with documentary incorporated time and socially critical references."
“Pohland's main interest was probably the time and society-critical background of the material. (...) The film received little attention and Pohland was disgraced in the usual way by 'Katz und Maus', including the allegation that he was only looking for a riot instead of social criticism:' It's a shame that filmmakers who were initially counted among the young Germans whose awkwardness one overlooked as initial difficulties, also resulting from a discrepancy between claim and ability, now quickly fell for speculative cinema. ' (Film, March 1968). "
Individual evidence
- ^ Tamara in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ Tamara in Zeughaus Kino
Web links
- Tamara in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tamara at filmportal.de