Playful home
Movie | |
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Original title | Playful home |
Country of production | GDR |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1971 |
length | 85 minutes |
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Director | Claus Dobberke |
script |
Gert Billing , Wolfgang Ebeling |
production | DEFA , KAG "Red Circle" |
music | Günter Hauk |
camera | Hans-Jürgen Sasse |
cut | Brigitte Krex |
occupation | |
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Playful home is a DDR - movie of 1971 . It tells of the lack of West German reappraisal of the National Socialist era . The novel of the same name by Franz Popp from 1968 served as a template .
action
The West German SPD functionary and editor-in-chief Karl Waldner meets the CDU politician and former Henlein leader Meißner at a meeting of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft . He had Karl's father murdered in the 1930s. With the help of the SPD, he tries in vain to initiate criminal prosecution of Meißner. The cross-party resistance is too great. In conversations with his childhood friend Sepp Lukas, Karl reconsiders his own history and that of social democracy.
background
The "Henlein-Jugend" was a group named after the National Socialist Reich Governor Konrad Henlein that fought for the Reichsgau Sudetenland , among other things .
Just two years after production, the film was taken out of distribution because it no longer politically fit into the landscape with the signing of the basic agreement as part of Willy Brandt's New Ostpolitik .
publication
The film had its cinema premiere on February 18, 1971 in Berlin's Kino International .
Reviews
In the magazine Neue Zeit . HU noticed that the script represents the weakness of the film:
“It affects the persuasiveness of his weighty political statements, which deserve the greatest interest. One knows (or at least can know) what is exemplified here. But the more emotional intensification that art could give does not materialize. Even the young director Claus Dobberke was unable to change anything with an objective, sober staging style. "
The Lexicon of International Films writes:
"A thematically interesting, but below average in terms of script and direction, the political objectives of which are formulated too amateurish and crude."
literature
- Franz Popp: A playful home. Verlag Neues Leben , 1968, DNB 457834137 .
- Lexicon of International Films. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-16357-8 , p. 6167.
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 664-665 .
Web links
- Playful home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Playful home at filmportal.de
- Playful home at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ German-Czech News, p. 67 (pdf)
- ↑ defa-stiftung.de
- ↑ New Germany . February 19, 1971, p. 2.
- ↑ New times. February 21, 1971, p. 4.
- ↑ Playful home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 13, 2018 .