Intermediate track
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Intermediate track |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Staudte |
| script | Dorothee Dahn |
| production | Harald Muller |
| music | Eugene Illinois |
| camera | Igor Luther |
| cut | Lilo Kruger |
| occupation | |
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Zwischengleis is a German film drama by Wolfgang Staudte and at the same time his last cinema production. Pola Kinski plays the leading role, with Hollywood star Mel Ferrer at her side .
action
Federal Republic of Germany in 1961. A young woman of 31 years falls from the Großhesseloher Bridge near Munich through a shaft hole to her death. The film fades back into the past and tells the story of the suicide, Anna Eichmayr, which began tragically 16 years ago. 1945, the Second World War is over, and 15-year-old Anna is on the run from the east with her mother and younger brother. All three of you board a train that is supposed to take you to the safe west of Germany. Another boy crawls into the cattle wagon and wants to find a better place to stay when the train pulls up at this moment. Since Anna is taking care of her rucksack with the remaining belongings, she can no longer hold the strange boy, and so he falls out of the car, gets onto the rail bed and is run over by the train.
Anna survives the chaos of war and escapes with her family to the West. But through this traumatic event and an appropriated guilt that will accompany her for the rest of her life, she has suffered severe damage to her soul since then. She marries the much older but benevolent American occupation officer Colonel Charles Stone, who, however , falls during the Korean War in the early 1950s . Then she gets involved with an insurance clerk and remarries. But this marriage, too, is determined by Anna's memories of the gruesome incident during the flight on the train. The demons in Anna get worse every year. Self-imposed guilt and self-accusation are her closest companions from now on. After 16 years, Anna Eichmayr finally sees only one way out to atone for her "failure" of yore ...
Production notes
The intermediate track was built from February 8 to March 30, 1978 in Munich and the surrounding area. The strip was shown for the first time at the end of May 1978 at the Cannes Film Festival . The German mass start was on October 27, 1978. Zwischengleis was first broadcast on television on December 30, 1981 in the 3rd program of the Bavarian radio.
Willy Schöne was in charge of production, Peter Herrmann the equipment. Stasi Kurz designed the costumes.
For Klaus Kinski's eldest daughter Pola, Zwischengleis meant her biggest and most important film role, for Mel Ferrer it was the first of three German films in just two years.
reception
"By the way, the film, a tragic love story between an American occupation officer and a young German in the late 1940s, is not good at all."
“It becomes painfully apparent how much Staudte has missed German film in recent years. If he hadn't been fobbed off with cheap TV crime novels during this time, he would certainly be an undisputed father figure for the new film today. "
“The actually dramatic story is carefully crafted, but staged in a very intricate manner. The film - Staudte's last cinema director - remains strangely impersonal, it is unable to stimulate reflection or arouse sympathy. "
“In his last film, Staudte once again referred to the issues of the post-war period, German guilt and the entanglement of the individual within the historical context. After the premiere he said: 'It was important for me to show the inner landscape of ruins instead of the real ruins', a reversal of his approach with ' The murderers are among us '. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Intermediate track in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Intermediate track on film.at
Web links
- Intermediate track in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Intermediate track at filmportal.de