Goods for Catalonia
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Goods for Catalonia |
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| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Groschopp |
| script |
Lothar Creutz , Carl Andrießen , Richard Groschopp |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Hans Hendrik Wehding |
| camera | Eugen Klagemann |
| cut | Helga Emmrich |
| occupation | |
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Ware für Katalonien is a German crime film by DEFA by Richard Groschopp from 1959. It is based on real facts.
action
A dead person is found in a gazebo. On the train to West Berlin , police arrest an elderly lady who has binoculars in her pocket. It turns out that the dead man was part of a smuggler's ring that was active in the field of optics shifting. The old woman, on the other hand, regularly brought optical devices from the GDR to her son in the "Kant-Klause" in West Berlin, which is apparently a central hub for smuggled goods. Unterleutnant Schellenberg, who has just joined the optics shift department, and Lieutenant Hasselbach are dealing with the case. The beautiful saleswoman Sabine Falk, who exposes an optical slide in her HO store and has it arrested, is soon ensnared by both police officers, but in the end she decides for Schellenberg.
The young Marion Stöckel also apparently has an admirer: On a trip to West Berlin, she met the gallant Bob Georgi, who soon courted her and eventually even got engaged to her. What Marion does not suspect is that Bob, as “The Fat Bob”, is the head of the smugglers' gang for optical devices. Only his partner Hasso Teschendorf, known as “The Spaniard”, stands higher. Bob, who feels that Hasso has taken advantage of him, wants to set up his own organization and uses Marion's apartment as an interim storage facility for diverted contraband.
Together with Marion and Hasso he goes on an “engagement trip” to Germany and via France to Spain, where numerous optical devices are delivered to the end user. When Hasso returns to West Berlin and notices that Bob wants to betray him, he has him beaten up and collects the smuggled goods from Marion. When Bob again wants to get his goods from Marion and these have already disappeared, Bob shows his true colors. In the meantime, the police have tracked down Bob and Hasso and arrested Bob as he tried to leave Marion's apartment. Hasso, in turn, is placed on the border with West Berlin and overpowered by Schellenberg on the run to the Brandenburg Gate .
production
Ware to Catalonia was created at the suggestion of the GDR Interior Ministry. The film deals with real events, with the figure of Hasso Teschendorf based on Hasso Schützendorf , who worked as an optics smuggler. In contrast to the film, Schützendorf escaped arrest and flee to Spain, where he only died in 2003.
Ware for Catalonia was filmed under the working title Der Fall Schützendorf in East Berlin, among other places. The film premiered on March 6, 1959 in the Leipzig Capitol and was released in GDR cinemas on March 13, 1959.
criticism
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler praised Ware for Catalonia in the Filmspiegel as “the best crime film that our DEFA has made so far.” The film possesses a convincing “fidelity in detail [and] a remarkable acting and dialogue”.
The lexicon of international film called Ware for Catalonia a "well-built crime film based on authentic cases with appealing acting performances."
Award
In 1959, director Richard Groschopp was awarded the GDR Art Prize for goods for Catalonia .
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 676-677 .
Web links
- Goods for Catalonia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Goods for Catalonia at filmportal.de
- Goods for Catalonia from the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl-Eduard von Schnitzer in Filmspiegel , No. 7, 1959.
- ↑ Goods for Catalonia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 9, 2017 .