Farewell (1968) ( Abschied )

Farewell (1968) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Abschied
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1968 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Egon Günther

Written By:
Johannes R. Becher
Egon Günther

Actors:
Rolf Ludwig ..... Staatsanwalt Gastl
Andreas Kaden ..... Hans Gastl
Katharina Lind ..... Mutter Gastl
Jan Spitzer ..... Hans Gastl
Mathilde Danegger ..... Gastls Großmutter
Doris Thalmer ..... Christine
Heidemarie Wenzel ..... Fanny
Bodo Krämer ..... Feck
Wilfried Mattukat ..... Freyschlag
Klaus Hecke ..... Löwenstein
Jürgen Heinrich ..... Hartinger
Manfred Krug ..... Sack
Annekathrin Bürger ..... Magda
Carl Heinz Choynski ..... Hoch
Rolf Römer

Synopsis:

In 1914 many young men euphorically volunteered to go and fight the First World War. Hans Gastl was one of those who took his leave - from his mother and his militaristically inclined father, a state prosecutor in Munich. Hans does not become a soldier, he is against the war and his bourgeois parental upbringing. Their burghers' hypocrisy and pseudo-morality repulse him. Regardless of his father's fury, Hans refuses to participate; he wants to change his life. The film, based on the novel by Johannes R. Becher, recounts in flashback-form the story of Hans' tender love to the housemaid, a love that is brutally repressed by his father; of his time in a boarding school for badly behaved children; of his love for a former prostitute with a fateful end; of his friendship to the Jew Löwenstein and the working-class boy Hartlinger. It is a film about searching, rebellion and the growth of understanding.

It has been 100 years since the start of the First World War. More than 10 million people lost their lives between 1914 and 1918, and twice as many were injured or crippled. The First World War was a significant theme for the film artists of the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), the East German film company founded in 1946. The suffering of working people, the misery of life in the factories and poor accommodation in cities, the growing organisation of resistance to warmongers and profiteers, as well as the battle for a better world are the topics of this extraordinary collection of films.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 30 March, 2015.

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