| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 87 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
Playing time: 84 min. |
| Note |
In Process Record. |
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Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1973. |
| Summary |
Refusing to accept that he has become redundant when his job is automated, Platow, a 57-year-old railway crossing guard, embarks on a new life rebelling against the path laid out by society. Pretending to be his son, he enrolls in a training course and starts to live a second youth. Director Siegfried Kuhn was influenced by his mentor, the renowned Russian film director Sergei Gerasimov. Here he experiments with color, separating day-to-day dreariness in bandw, from scenes in color conveying an optimistic, imaginative vitality. Officials criticized this satirical comedy, with music by the East German rock band The Puhdys, for showing a distorted image of the working class. Despite its very limited release, it quickly became an insiders' tip. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In German |
| Indexed Term |
Film Studies |
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Foreign Language Film |
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German Studies |
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Movies |
| Added Author |
Kuhn, Siegried, filmmaker
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1152684 Kanopy |
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