Konrad Wolf — Director (10)

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People with Wings (1960)
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other title: Leute mit Flügeln / Men with Wings …
This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber airplane plant. Director Dehringer offers him the opportunity to train as an airplane constructor if he is willing to give up his communist beliefs under oath. Bartuschek will not allow himself to be bought and instead joins the underground resistance movement.

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妈妈,我还活着! (1977)
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other title: Mama, ich lebe / Mama, I'm Alive
Four young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and Russians, and are difficult to live up to when they are sent behind German lines.

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The Divided Heaven (1965)
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other title: 分裂的天空 / Der geteilte Himmel …
改编文学之作,这改编对象是因敢言而长期被监视的著名东德女作家Christa Wolf。故事设于1950年代末,女主角丽塔毕业在即被派往电车厂工作,了解劳动生活。在那里,她爱上了比她年长十年的化学家。可惜好恋不常,男朋友因事业失意决定投奔西柏林,令丽塔进退两难。禾斯夫用上前卫的意识流手法,以倒叙方式道出丽塔的经历,藉以对共产理念与实行提出大胆的批判,此片亦因此被誉为“第一部呈现东德觉醒的作品”。

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独唱苏妮 (1980)
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康拉德·沃尔夫 / 沃尔夫冈·科尔哈泽 actor: 雷娜特·克劳斯纳 / Alexander Lang …
other title: Solo Sunny / 独身苏妮 …
Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life as a whole. She begins a relationship with the amateur saxophonist and studied philosopher Ralph who writes her a very personal song - but his obsession with death and unfaithful lifestyle is not for her. After getting into a quarrel with a band member who harasses her and telling off a show-host she is thrown out of the band. Abandoned, she struggles to regain control over her life.

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Sterne (1959)
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康拉德·沃尔夫 actor: Sasha Krushars / Jürgen Frohriep
other title: 星 / Stars …
Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter – a German Wehrmacht sergeant and artist – lives in almost idyllic distance from the war. Then a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. When Ruth, one of the internees, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman, the two form an unlikely bond.

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Professor Mamlock (1961)
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other title: 马姆洛克教授 / 马门教授
杰出的犹太族外科医生马姆洛克教授是一个只关心医学,不过问政治的人。他看不出纳粹产生的危险,也不明白看病的瓦尔特为什么会为了政治主张而置自己的健康而不顾。在他看来,纳粹分子就跟黑尔帕赫博士一样,既“不顾大局”,也决不会杀人。当他的儿子罗尔夫投入反纳粹的斗争中时,他把儿子赶出家门。他相信,不需要暴力,光靠理性和讲道理就能解决问题,取得胜利。希特勒上台不久,因为马姆洛克是犹太,他便不能继续在医院里工作了……

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Goya, or sorely learning way (1971)
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康拉德·沃尔夫 actor: 多纳塔斯•奥威戴斯 / 奥利韦拉·卡塔琳娜 …
other title: 戈雅或认知的恶途 / Goya - oder Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis …
About the life of the great Spanish painter, engraver and graphic Francisco Jose de Goya (1746-1828), whose works are distinguished by bold innovation, passionate emotions, the exigencies of the characteristics and social direction grotesque.

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I Was Nineteen (1968)
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other title: 我当年19岁 / Ich war neunzehn …
A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him to confront the atrocities and lies he encounters along the way.