Do not know where Mr. Kisch is
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Do not know where Mr. Kisch is |
| Country of production |
GDR ČSSR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 20 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eduard Schreiber |
| script | Eduard Schreiber |
| production |
DEFA Krátký Film , Prague |
| music |
Michael Kocak archive footage |
| camera |
Ervín Sanders Evžen Plítek |
| cut | Viktoria Dietrich |
Don't you know where Mr. Kisch is , is a documentary that was made in 1985 by Eduard Schreiber in co-production at DEFA Studios for Documentaries and Krátký Film from Prague .
action
A man in a hat walks through the streets of Prague with its many passageways that he especially loves. Omnipresent in the film, sometimes blurred, sometimes clear, the man in the hat symbolizes the search for the mad reporter Egon Erwin Kisch . Pictures of the city from the time of his childhood and youth are shown. These are images that remained of pre-war Prague, in which Germans, Czechs and Jews could still live together. This also includes those of the house where he was born, “To the Two Golden Bears” in Ledergasse, his neighbors but also with his four brothers or with his mother.
Right at the beginning of the world war he went to Serbia as a soldier. Since he keeps diaries, because the newspapers keep silent about the horrors of war, his comrades keep shouting to him: "Write that down, Kisch". In the last year of the war, Lieutenant Egon Erwin Kisch, editorial officer in the war press headquarters, constantly changed names and rank in order to work in the illegal soldiers' council without being recognized. After the war he wants to go out into the world.
His place of residence is Berlin , but he also writes from Moscow , New York City , Tashkent or Shanghai . He is always difficult to find, sometimes he is in Australia , sometimes he takes part in the battles of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and then goes to Mexico as an emigrant . After the Second World War he takes part in the trial of Hitler's governor in Czechoslovakia, Karl Hermann Frank , and reports on it. The return to his beloved Prague is joy and sorrow for him, many of his friends and acquaintances are no longer alive. Two of his brothers were also killed by the National Socialists .
The socialist republic is proclaimed in 1948 just a few steps from the house "To the two golden bears". It is the last that Egon Erwin Kisch can still experience from the new beginning.
production
The premiere of the film shot on ORWO color took place on October 18, 1985 in Neubrandenburg on the occasion of the 8th National Festival of Documentaries and Short Films of the GDR . The film premiered in Berlin on November 19, 1985 in the ČSSR's Culture and Information Center at Leipziger Strasse 60. The film was first broadcast on April 27, 1986 in the first program on East German television.
The film music was recorded by the DEFA Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Manfred Rosenberg . The dramaturgy was in the hands of Evžen Plítek and Richard Ritterbusch . The title in the opening credits is written without a question mark.
criticism
Gisela Harkenthal describes the film in the Berliner Zeitung as idiosyncratic and experimental.
Awards
- 1986: Honorary diploma at the 16th International Short Film Festival in Tampere
- 1986: Heinrich Greif Prize for directing
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 26, 1985, p. 10
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 8, 1985, p. 8
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 17, 1986, p. 10
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 26, 1985, p. 10.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 6, 1986, p. 6
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 15, 1986, p. 7