Sterne / Progress Film-Vertrieb zeigt eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion des DEFA-Studios fur Spielfilme und des Studios fur Spielfilme Sofia ; Buch, Angel Wagenstein ; Produktionsleitung, Vyltscho Draganov, Siegfried Nurnberger ; Regie, Konrad Wolf.
Publisher:
DEFA Film LibraryUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Sascha Kruscharska, Jurgen Frohriep, Erik S. Klein, Stefan Pejtschev, Georgi Naumov, Ivan Kondov, Milka Tujkova, Stiljan Kunev, Naitscho Petrov, Elena Chranova. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959. Special features include : biographies & filmographies ; film interview : Angel Wagenstein ; trailer ; PDF files: critical essay by scholar Thomas Elsaesser, Historical background: the Holocaust in Bulgaria ; scene selections.
Summary:
A detachment of Nazi soldiers escorting Greek Jews to the Oswiencim death camp stops at a small Bulgarian town in 1943. Walter, the non-commissioned officer from the Nazi army, a skeptical and disillusioned intellectual, falls most unexpectedly in love with the Jewish girl Rutt. This new feeling gradually makes him stop and reflect on the events taking place around him and comes face to face with the inhuman nature of fascism. He is tortured by anxious thought about the part he is called to play in the eternal struggle between evil and good.
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