Death or freedom

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Movie
Original title Death or freedom
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1977
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Wolf Gremm
script Wolf Gremm
Collaboration: Fritz Müller-Scherz , Thomas Keck, Barbara Naujok - based on Friedrich Schiller's Die Räuber
production Regina Ziegler
Willi Benninger for Paramount Germany, Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion and ZDF
music Guido de Angelis
Maurizio de Angelis (Oliver Onions)
camera Jost Vacano
cut Siegrun hunter
John Victor Smith
occupation

Death or Freedom is a German costume and adventure film from 1977, freely based on Friedrich Schiller's Die Räuber . Under the direction of wolf gremm played Erika Pluhar , Peter Sattmann , Mario Adorf and Gert Fröbe the leading roles.

action

Southern Germany around 1750. A sovereign prince who is as despotic as it is ostentatious and lavishly has indiscriminate innocent peasant sons arrested directly from the fields where they are currently doing their work, in order to sell them to America as mercenaries for a bounty . The young Fritz von Buttlar, the offspring of an old noble family, no longer wants to watch this monstrous goings-on. His indignation becomes limitless when he has to watch how even the young noblewoman Nicole von Beck is imprisoned.

Fritz then took the necessary steps, left his father's castle and formed a rebel troop with like-minded friends who wanted to rebel against the sovereign's despotism. He quickly succeeds in setting up a quick-witted unit with his people. In the forests around Coburg, Urach and Bamberg he wants to fight against the royal army. Only his brother Ludwig opposes this, since he has long since kept an eye on Fritz's bride Maria. He wants to take advantage of the hour and win it over. In the end, the princely rope awaits some of the rebels.

Production notes

The premiere of the film took place on December 25, 1977 in the Residenz cinema in Urach .

The shooting took place over 40 days from July 9th to August 27th 1977 on location in the area of Coburg , Bamberg , at the Rosenberg Fortress in Kronach, the Irmelshausen moated castle (Northern Bavaria), the Brennhausen moated castle and in Urach. The film was completed on November 22, 1977.

Ingrid Zoré designed the costumes , Götz Heymann provided the equipment . Erwin Lange designed the pyrotechnic special effects .

The only 26-year-old Malte Thorsten , who was seen here under his real name Wolfgang Schumacher in one of the leading roles as Peter Sattmann's brother, ended his short-lived film career with death or freedom .

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged: " Film fed from a variety of sources (including Schiller's" Räuber "), fluctuating between open-air performance and spaghetti westerns."

In Cinema it says: "Director Gremm has edited the still topical material very freely for the cinema. His rapidly staged play of light looks like a contribution to contemporary history (packed into the film scene)."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German films 1977, compiled by Rüdiger Koschnitzki. German Institute for Film Studies, Wiesbaden 1978, p. 61 a.
  2. Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 8, p. 3802. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  3. Cinema, No. 2, December 1977, p. 17.