Regie:
Gerhard KleinCamera:
Jan ČuříkActeurs:
Hannjo Hasse, Herwart Grosse, Hilmar Thate, Rolf Ludwig, Rolf Ripperger, Achim Wolff, Werner Dissel, Hubert Hoelzke, Georg Leopold, Dieter Schindelhauer (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Considered one of the most modern and experimental films in DEFA's history, the eccentric THE GLEIWITZ CASE (DER FALL GLEIWITZ) is the blunt, confrontational, minutely detailed fictional recreation of the infamous Gleiwitz event at the beginning of World War II, told in a highly stylized visual manner that recalls Leni Riefenstahl's 'The Triumph of the Will'.
THE GLEIWITZ CASE offers an almost documentary account of the events surrounding the Nazi's staged attack on a radio transmitter near Gleiwitz on the German-Polish border on August 31st, 1939. Under the command of SS officer Helmut Naujocks, six ethnic Germans living in Poland are selected and prepared for the secret operation--to take over the station and create the appearance of an assault, complete with radio message by the alleged Polish insurgents. One dead concentration camp inmate in Polish uniform is left behind as proof of the attack. This little-known "incident" gave the Third Reich a reason for invading Poland and, in so doing, starting World War II.
THE GLEIWITZ CASE accomplishes the reconstruction of an event as well as the deconstruction of fascist film imagery by using a style that recalls the convergence of aesthetics and politics under fascism. The chilling beauty of the images and the compulsively linear narrative offer disturbing insights into the collective mentality of the protagonists. The carefully composed shots of ordinary settings and locations, the hard lighting and low camera angles, and geometrical configurations are deliberate references to the techniques used by Leni Riefenstahl in 'Triumph of the Will'.
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Acteurs
Hannjo Hasse
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Vyšší princip (1960)
Polnočná omša (1962)
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Herwart Grosse
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Professor Mamlock (1961)
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (serie)
Hilmar Thate
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Professor Mamlock (1961)
Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982)
Rolf Ludwig
Zweden
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Das Buschgespenst (1986) (Tv-film)
Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1973)
Rolf Ripperger
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (serie)
Achim Wolff
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (serie)
Wie angelt man sich seinen Chef? (2000) (Tv-film)
Werner Dissel
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Les Misérables (1958)
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Coming out (1989)
Hubert Hoelzke
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (serie)
Georg Leopold
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Une femme française (1995)
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (serie)
Dieter Schindelhauer
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (serie)
Herbert Manz
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (serie)
Fritz Ernst Fechner
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Osvobožděnije 3: Napravlenije glavnogo udara (1971)
Fünf Patronenhülsen (1960)
Horst Friedrich
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)
Kurt Mühlhardt
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Les Misérables (1958)
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Marianne Christina Schilling
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Signale - Ein Weltraumabenteuer (1970)
Heinz Kögel
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Der schweigende Stern (1959)
Heinz Behrens
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (serie)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (serie)
Margarete Taudte
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Manfred Günther
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Bolwieser (1977) (Tv-film)
Tatort (1970) (serie)
Friedrich Richter
Oostenrijk-Hongarije
Beste films:
Der Fall Gleiwitz (1961)
Jakob der Lügner (1974)
Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (1953)