Tannbach - fate of a village
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tannbach - fate of a village |
| Country of production | Germany , Czech Republic |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015, 2018 |
| length | Episode 1: 90 minutes, Episode 2: 98 minutes, Episode 3: 104 minutes, Episode 4: 98 minutes, Episode 5: 95 minutes, Episode 6: 92 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 (episodes 1–5) FSK 6 (episode 6) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexander Dierbach |
| script |
Josephin von Thayenthal , Robert von Thayenthal , Martin Pristl , Gabriela Sperl , Gabriela Zerhau |
| production |
Quirin Berg , Gabriela Sperl , Max Wiedemann |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Clemens Messow |
| cut |
Matthew Newman , Simon Blasi |
| occupation | |
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The six-part ZDF - TV movie Tannbach - fate of a village is in two seasons of the fictional village "Tannbach" at the Bavarian - Thuringian border and its development after the end of World War II . Since the village is partly in the " East " and partly in the " West " because the Tannbach was declared a border, the fate of the population of divided Germany at the time of the Cold War can be found in it . The real model for "Tannbach" was the village of Mödlareuth .
action
season 1
The first part, The Morning After the War (first broadcast on January 4, 2015) is about the last days of the war and the conquest by US troops . At the end of the film, Tannbach is completely taken over by the Soviets .
The second part, The Expropriation (first broadcast on January 5, 2015) deals with the time of the Soviet occupation until the Potsdam Conference finally divided the village into a Soviet and a US-American part , as did Germany, Berlin and Mödlareuth . The word Klein-Berlin is used .
The third part, Mein Land, Dein Land (first broadcast on January 7, 2015) is about the time of the final division of the village in 1952. Its inhabitants now live in two states.
season 2
The fourth part, Shadow of War (first broadcast on January 8, 2018) is about the beginning of the Cold War , armament and how the last farms were forcibly collectivized in the “ socialist spring” of 1960 .
The fifth part, Peace from Stone (first broadcast on January 10, 2018) takes place in 1961 and tells of events in the year the Wall was built .
The sixth part Traum von Frühling (first broadcast on January 11, 2018) takes place during the Prague Spring in 1968. The events are also followed in Ost-Tannbach.
background
Naming
Tannbach is a fictional village. However, the stream that separates the two halves bears the name of the real Tannbach , which marked the course of the inner-German border in the middle of Mödlareuth .
Locations
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The multi-part series was shot mainly in Běsno (German: Wießen), a district of Kryry ( Czech Republic ), west of Prague . The castle in Hubenov near Kralovice served as the filming location for Gut Striesow . Some scenes were created in the Upper Franconian Farm Museum in Kleinlosnitz .
Main characters (selection)
Georg von Striesow
At the beginning of the film, the count and landowner returns home from the front as a deserter , but remains silent about his experiences. He had to watch in hiding as his wife Caroline von Striesow was shot in public by the National Socialists in the last days of the war on her estate because she did not want to betray him. At the end of the first part he is deported to France as a prisoner of war and returns after a year in the second part. Like all large landowners who own 100 hectares or more of land, they are expropriated without compensation and are forbidden to approach their former property within 50 kilometers (see land reform in Germany ). At the end of the second part, von Striesow flees to the west. The third part reveals his history as a major in the Wehrmacht . A returned prisoner of war confronts him with orders to retaliate against the civilian population for partisan attacks. Count von Striesow regrets his actions and is a staunch opponent of socialism, which he often shows his daughter and son-in-law. His second marriage son, Artur, attempted suicide by taking pills in 1968 .
Anna Erler, née von Striesow
Anna is the daughter of Caroline and Georg von Striesow. After her mother is shot and her father captured, she is responsible for the farm. Later, however, this is expropriated, whereby Anna loses everything. She marries the staunch communist Friedrich Erler in East Germany , who found refuge on her parents' farm during the war, and shares his ideals. They live with their son Felix and Lothar on a small, self-built farm, the Erlenhof, after their inheritance has been expropriated. After the death of her husband Friedrich in a fire on a farm, Erler turns to the pastor of the village in a friendly manner and has her two daughters Kathrin and Charlotte baptized.
Kathrin Erler
Kathrin Erler lives with her mother Anna Erler at the beginning of 1968. She is critical of the GDR leadership as a result of the Prague Spring and is also critical of her mother.
Felix Erler
Felix Erler is the son of Anna and Friedrich Erler. At the beginning of 1968 he served in the National People's Army and tried to desert because he feared the invasion of Czechoslovakia to crush the emerging democratization efforts ( Prague Spring ) and a war as a result. He finds shelter with Pastor Herder for a short time, but is reported to the police by his mother and taken into custody. He is sentenced to one year in barracks.
Liesbeth Erler
Liesbeth Erler is a tailor. During the war she saved the young Jew Lothar Erler by pretending to be her own child. She fled Berlin with Lothar and her biological son Friedrich Erler and found refuge in Striesow-Hof. But she has seen too much to believe in ideals. One scene in the film shows her arguing with her son, in which she predicts that the communist ideal, like the folk ideal , will become hell instead of heaven. She proves her courage in the dangerous smuggling of essential goods across the zone border. In the second part she leaves the Soviet zone and goes to New York as a tailor , but comes back to East Germany for the baptism of her grandson Felix Erler. Since the baptism takes place in the Tannbacher Church on West German soil, she remains on this side of the border after the baptism because, in contrast to her son and daughter-in-law, she has a well-founded fear of arrest on return to the GDR.
Friedrich Erler
Liesbeth Erler's son is a young man who fled Berlin with his mother and Lothar Erler to Tannbach. Here he meets his future wife Anna von Striesow, with whom he will have three children. In the course of the land reform in the Soviet zone of occupation , he was allocated five hectares of land that belonged to the von Striesows' former property. Friedrich, who finds pleasure in the new system primarily through Konrad Werner, is still convinced of the ideals of communism . While his mother Liesbeth Erler learned in the war years that ideals that are too high represent hell rather than heaven, he is still following this conviction. In the late 1950s, Friedrich died in a fire on a farm in the eastern part of the village.
Lothar Erler
Lothar is Liesbeth Erler's Jewish foster son and has a brotherly relationship with Friedrich. He lost his parents in the Auschwitz concentration camp . With the land reform he received five hectares of land for himself, which he combined with Friedrich's arable land. They build the "Erlerhof" on it. Lothar is later active as a smuggler and escape helper . He is a very popular person and almost everyone likes him. At the end of the third part, he is shot while crossing the border illegally . From the official East German side it is said that the West German border guards had killed him. Friedrich and his wife Anna Erler are also allowed to believe this.
Hilde Voeckler
Hilde is ashamed that her illegitimate son Horst, whose father is Franz Schober, had Countess Caroline von Striesow murdered. When he returns to the village a few weeks after the end of the war, she betrays him to the American occupiers. She wants to testify against Franz Schober, but is prevented from doing so by Adolph Herrmann. She accommodates Anna von Striesow when she should actually leave her former estate, and becomes the lover of Konrad Werner when he is looking for Anna. She opens a boarding house that accommodates refugees until Adolph Herrmann bans her. Then she works in the village shop. Since Hilde is assessed as "politically unreliable", at the end of the third part she is forcibly resettled with other residents by the " Vermin campaign ". In the 1950s she worked as a seamstress in a factory in East Berlin that worked for the Striesows mail order company. She is arrested by the Stasi for covering up a colleague who has committed sabotage at the plant.
Horst Voeckler
When the Countess hung up white sheets to surrender to the approaching American troops, SS-Untersturmführer Horst Vöckler was asked by his father Franz to keep Tannbach in order. In the last minutes of the war, before the American army reached the village, he had the countess shot. He later escapes and hides near the village, but is betrayed by his mother Hilde Vöckler and taken prisoner by the American army. Horst Vöckler, who has since turned from a Nazi to a BND agent in the 1950s , has a secret relationship with Walter Imhoff, whom he loves. In the early 1960s he was reported by a hotel owner for " fornication " (violation of § 175 StGB , the "gay paragraph") and arrested by the police. In the following years he lived in South America and returned to Germany in 1968 to free his mother from prison in East Germany .
Franz Schober
Franz Schober, who even after the defeat included Adolf Hitler in his grace and was a member of the NSDAP , initially instigated Horst Vöckler to maintain order, then cooperated with the American occupation forces and was later kept from the camp by the Russians. After correcting the border, he finds himself with his family's farm on the west side. He is the prototype of an opportunist who can evade punishment. In 1968 Franz Schober suffered a stroke .
Heinrich Schober
Franz Schober's son is never fully recognized by his father because of his physical handicap. He steals his party book and uses it to blackmail himself into the court inheritance. He knows that Theresa's first child is not his, but he lets the French child father go when his father Franz tries to shoot him. He saves his wife Theresa and his parents from deportation because he is giving away some pieces of land before the land reform, so that the farm is smaller than 100 hectares, but at 85 hectares it is still much larger than the five hectares that the new farmers took with the land reform get assigned.
Konrad Werner
He is a communist who has returned from the Soviet Union and becomes the lover of Hilde Vöckler. As district administrator, he has the upper hand over the village on the East German side. He was primarily involved in the land reform, i.e. the expropriation of the large landowners, but at the end of the third part he was increasingly replaced as an idealist with human emotions by Adolph Herrmann, a Stasi apparatchik who was a member of the NSDAP before the war.
Theresa Schober, née Prantl
When she was expecting a child from a French war worker, she married the physically handicapped Heinrich Schober, although she did not love him, so that she and her child Christa could be looked after, and had another child, Emil, with him. Her relationship with her father-in-law remained tense and she secretly gave Georg von Striesow the Franz Schober party book that Heinrich had stolen in order to expose him as an old Nazi. Her marriage made her a citizen of the West, while her father Hubertus made a career with the GDR border troops and was in charge of building the border fence. In the 1950s, she lost her little son Emil, who discovered a hand grenade while playing . In 1968 she decided to take care of Franz Schober, who had a stroke.
Former farmer Otto Mader
As a large farmer, he is reluctant to expropriate and join the LPG . From him, Friedrich learns who really killed his brother. At the end of the 1950s he set fire to his farm and committed suicide. Friedrich Erler, who hurries to his aid, also dies in the fire.
Rosemarie von Striesow, née Czerni
The East Berlin woman met Georg von Striesow in West Berlin, which was still freely accessible, and followed him to West Tannbach. As a woman who grew up in the Eastern Zone, she alienates patriarchal customs in the West; so it alienates her that as an unmarried woman she is not employed or is not allowed to work without her husband's permission. The mail order company for textiles learns through their mediation that one can produce cheaper in the "zone". Czerni married Georg von Striesow and successfully worked on the commercial success of the mail order company in the 1950s and early 1960s. In the following years she began a secret relationship with the reporter Gustl Schober. During all these years she worked as a Stasi agent in the Striesow Group, as she was blackmailed because of her brother Kurt, whose life she wanted to protect.
Wolfgang Herder
Herder is a pastor and has moved to the East out of conviction. The village church is on the Bavarian side, and so he has to build a new church in Tannbach if he wants to build a Christian community. After Friedrich's death, Anna Erler found support in her faith through him.
Christa Schober
Christa is the illegitimate daughter of Theresa Schober and the French war worker Philippe, who worked as a farmhand on the Striesow farm during the war. At the beginning of the second season she learns that Heinrich Schober is not her biological father. When her younger brother Emil, left to supervise, dies in an accident with a hand grenade deposited in the forest, she is made responsible for his death. After a violent argument with her stepfather and repeated inappropriate behavior, she is transferred to welfare education. In 1968 she lived with her family again and worked in the inn. She has been married to Walter Imhoff, Horst Vöckler's former lover, since 1967.
Gustl Schober
As a reporter, he writes about the stay-behind organization of NATO and is asked by his half-brother Horst Vöckler, who has since turned from a Nazi to a BND agent, to refrain from doing so. Vöckler threatens him with difficulties, but Gustl does not allow himself to be discouraged and announces that if necessary he will present his research to the mirror .
Walter Imhoff
As part of the western border troops, doubts about his activities grow in him. He is a secret lover of Horst Vöckler, but later turns away from him and marries Christa Schober.
reception
When first broadcast in 2015, the first three parts each reached an average of 6.55 million TV viewers.
FAZ reviewer Michael Hanfeld said in 2015: “... five hours of history television, during which you actually get an idea of how not only the iron curtain fell, but how a wall was created in your mind. Unfortunately it's just a hunch. "
The use of the Upper Bavarian instead of the East Franconian dialect in the film met with criticism, especially in Franconia , since Upper Franconia is on the Bavarian side of the Thuringian-Bavarian border and not Upper Bavaria .
Awards
- Bambi for Henriette Confurius in the category "National Actress"
- Nomination for Jonas Nay in the category "Actor National"
Award from the German Academy for Television 2015
- Gerhard Zeiss & Silka Lisku for the makeup
- Fabian Römer for the music
Bavarian TV Prize 2015
- Special prize to the producers Gabriela Sperl , Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann
- Nomination to Henriette Confurius as best actress in the categories "TV films / series and series"
- Nomination to Jonay Nay as best actor in the categories "TV films / series and series"
Shanghai International TV Festival 2015
- Magnolia Award for the best foreign television series
- Award for Jonas Nay in the category "Best Actor" (also for his role in Germany 83 )
- Nomination for Henriette Confurius in the category "Best Actress"
- Nomination for Fabian Römer in the category "Best Music"
- Nomination for Gabriele Binder (costume) and Knut Loewe (production design) in the category "Best Equipment"
Jupiter election 2016
- Best German TV feature film
Banff World Media Festival 2016
- Rockie Award in the "Drama Series" category
Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo 2016
- Best TV movie
Web links
- Tannbach - fate of a village in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tannbach - fate of a village on Fernsehserien.de
- Tannbach - fate of a village on ZDF side of the broadcast
- On the set of the ZDF three-part film “Tannbach”. Look at this village , sueddeutsche.de, April 30, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Tannbach - fate of a village (part 1) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 464 V).
- ↑ Release certificate for Tannbach - fate of a village (part 2) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 465 V).
- ↑ Release certificate for Tannbach - fate of a village (part 3) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 466 V).
- ↑ Release certificate for Tannbach - fate of a village (part 4) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Release certificate for Tannbach - fate of a village (part 5) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Release certificate for Tannbach - fate of a village (part 6) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ How the Wall Divided a Village . Die Welt from July 10th, 2014
- ↑ Shooting for the film "Tannbach" - restricted access. In: www.kleinlosnitz.de. June 2014, accessed January 13, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Franken angry about Bavarian "Seppldialekt". In: Welt.de. January 9, 2015, accessed January 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Hanfeld: The wall in the head does not want to fall. In: Faz.net of January 2, 2015.
- ↑ Der Blaue Panther - 27th Bavarian Television Prize: Announcement of the winners. Press release no. 106/15. Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology, May 22, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Der Blaue Panther - 27th Bavarian Television Award: Announcement of the nominations. Press release no. 77/15. Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology, April 20, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2018 .
- ^ Banff '16: Rockie Award Program Competition winners announced. In: Playback. June 14, 2016, accessed January 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Palmarès des Nymphes d'Or 2016. (No longer available online.) Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo , archived from the original on September 10, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
