| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Hans-Peter Minetti, Horst Drinda, Sonja Sutter |
| Event |
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1957. |
| Summary |
Berlin, early 1930s. Lissy (Sonja Sutter), a young woman raised in a socialist working-class family, marries a clerk who promises her a better life. During the depression, however, he gets fired and can’t find a new job. Desperate for companionship and money, he falls for Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers. Lissy's brother, who for a time sympathized with the communists, now also wears the SA uniform. When he is killed by the Nazis—because of his oppositional ideas—Lissy starts questioning things and makes a difficult and potentially dangerous decision. This East German classic, created by a young Konrad Wolf (*Stars*, *I Was Nineteen*, *Professor Mamlock*), son of the playwright Friedrich Wolf, prefigures the years of Nazi tyranny. The gripping story is based on the novel *Die Versuchung*, by Jewish author F.C. Weiskopf, who was able to flee the Nazis in Czechoslovakia and immigrate to the USA with the help of the League of American Writers in 1939. *“This film brilliantly and accurately impresses us with its subtle depiction of characters, with an eye to both the typical and the contradictory.” - Ulrich Gregor, **Konrad Wolf: Film in der DDR*** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, German.
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Foreign films.
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Motion Pictures.
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Drama.
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Balts (Indo-European people).
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German language.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Wolf, Konrad, film director.
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Minetti, Hans-Peter, actor.
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Drinda, Horst, actor.
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Sutter, Sonja, actor.
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DEFA Film Library (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
2663876 Kanopy |
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