Fathers of a Thousand Suns
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fathers of a Thousand Suns |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joachim Hellwig |
| script | Joachim Hellwig |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| music | Brigitte Unterdörfer |
| camera | Wolfgang Dietzel |
| cut | Dieter Koerner |
Fathers of a Thousand Suns is a documentary by the DEFA Studio for Documentaries by Joachim Hellwig from 1990.
action
The focus is on the GDR nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs , who died in January 1988 and whose life was embedded in the history of the atomic bomb. The film describes the story of people who lived and worked in the field of tension between the urge to research and the need for conscience and each of whom had to deal with it in his own way.
The film also contains video material in which Klaus Fuchs reported openly about himself, his life and his ideals, about what moved him, the Soviet Union , to give information that seemed useful to him. According to the director, the conversation was recorded in 1983 by Markus Wolf as documentation for posterity with his knowledge . These sequences, in which a humble, clever man speaks full of human warmth about his actions, motives and attitudes, are exciting and touching.
Above all, the film consists of interviews with scientists, friends and contemporary witnesses. For example, the American physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer , Albert Einstein , Niels Bohr , the English Nobel Prize winner Nevill Francis Mott , the physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , the scientist Robert Jungk from Salzburg, the writer Ruth Werner , the lieutenant general and peace researcher Wolf von Baudissin and Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski can be seen.
production
Fathers of a Thousand Suns was filmed on ORWO color under the working title atomic researcher and supplemented with historical black and white film excerpts. It had its festive premiere on January 4, 1990 in the Berlin Academy of the Arts of the GDR .
criticism
Rüdiger Thunemann said in the Berliner Zeitung that the film will never become a radio play and that a lot can be learned about the lives of great personalities.
The lexicon of international films called the Fathers of a Thousand Suns a fact-rich documentary.
Web links
- Fathers of a thousand suns in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fathers of a Thousand Suns at filmportal.de
- Fathers of a Thousand Suns on DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 6, 1990, p. 4
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 16, 1990, p. 13
- ^ Fathers of a Thousand Suns in the Lexicon of International Films