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The Escape in the Silent
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Wikipedia article
'The Escape in the Silent' '[http://www.defa.de/cms/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=412&FilmID=Q6UJ9A002L5Z Flucht ins Schweigen]' on DEFA Foundation's website. is an East German black-and-white film, directed by Siegfried Hartmann. It was released in 1966.
Plot
Construction works carried out in a small village in Thuringia reveal the corpse of a member of the Waffen-SS, who seems to have been buried during the end of the Second World War - although no fighting took place in the area. Two forensics experts from the People's Police Investigations Department, Stetter and Hoffmann, arrive in the village to determine the death cause. At first, they suspect the owner of the lands in which the body was discovered; but after questioning him, he is murdered. A golden coin they found leads them to a local woman named Helga, and they reveal the truth behind the matter.
Cast
* Fritz Diez as Stetter
* Dieter Wien as Hoffmann
* Marita Bhme as Helga Klink
* Regine Albrecht as Inge Klink
* Ji Vrala as Wills
* Hans-Joachim Hanisch as Zschunke
* Hans Hardt-Hardtloff as Schindler
* Karlheinz Liefers as priest
* Wolfgang Brunecker as Mller
* Rolf Ludwig as Karl Reinhold
* Horst Schn as SS man
* Ernst-Georg Schwill as police clerk
* Siegfried Wei as jeweler
* Gnter Sonnenberg as Heinz Klink
* Willi Neuenhahn as the wheelwright
Production
The script was based on Wolfgang Held's novel, 'The Death Pays with Ducats', published at 1964.
Reception
At 1966, Albert Wilkening wrote that "this thriller continues the honored tradition of DEFA, by combining the genre with contemporary issues, as well as an important historical and political background."Andrea Guder. 'Genosse Hauptmann auf Verbrecherjagd: der Krimi in Film und Fernsehen der DDR'. ARCult Media (2003). . Page 190. The 'Eulenspiegel' magazine's reviewer commented that "Finally... One must see the film, for the sake of the elusive culmination of its plot."'[http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=gibt+es+nun+einen+DEFA-film+mehr%2C+als+film&btnG=Search+Books#sclient=psy&hl=en&tbo=1&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=Schweigen+Werk+dadurch%2C+da%C3%9F+man+den+sch%C3%BCtteren+Schatz%2C+um+den+es+geht%2C+schlie%C3%9Flich+sehen&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=64620b21149beb4e Eulenspiegel Magazine]', 1966. . Page 24. The German Film Lexicon regarded it as "a criminal drama, the powerful statement of which is weakened by formalistic deficiencies."'[http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?sucheNach=titel&wert=47492 Flucht ins Schweigen]' on zweitausendundeins.de.
References
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