''The Escape in the Silent'' (german: Flucht ins Schweigen)
Flucht ins Schweigen
' on DEFA Foundation's website. is an
East German
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
black-and-white film
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Media
The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology imp ...
, directed by Siegfried Hartmann. It was released in 1966.
Plot
Construction works carried out in a small village in
Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Erfurt is the capital and larg ...
reveal the corpse of a member of the
Waffen-SS
The (, "Armed SS") was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, volunteers and conscripts from both occup ...
, 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
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Fritz Diez
Fritz Diez (27 February 1901 – 19 October 1979) was a German actor, producer, director and theater manager.
Biography
Early life
Diez's mother was a servant, and raised her three children alone. To support his family, the child began working a ...
as Stetter
* Dieter Wien as Hoffmann
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Marita Böhme as Helga Klink
* Regine Albrecht as Inge Klink
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Jiří Vršťala as Wills
* Hans-Joachim Hanisch as Zschunke
* Hans Hardt-Hardtloff as Schindler
* Karlheinz Liefers as priest
* Wolfgang Brunecker as Möller
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Rolf Ludwig
Rolf Ludwig (28 July 1925 – 27 March 1999) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1952 to 1997.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1925 births
1999 deaths
Male actors from Stockholm
Germ ...
as Karl Reinhold
* Horst Schön as SS man
* Ernst-Georg Schwill as police clerk
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Siegfried Weiß as jeweler
* Günter Sonnenberg as Heinz Klink
* Willi Neuenhahn as the wheelwright
Production
The script was based on
Wolfgang Held's novel, ''The Death Pays with
Ducat
The ducat () coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages from the 13th to 19th centuries. Its most familiar version, the gold ducat or sequin containing around of 98.6% fine gold, originated in Venice in 1284 and gained wi ...
s'', published at 1964.
Reception
At 1966, Albert Wilkening wrote that "this thriller continues the honored tradition of
DEFA
DEFA (''Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft'') was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence.
Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PRO ...
, by combining the genre with contemporary issues, as well as an important historical and political background." The ''Eulenspiegel'' magazine's reviewer commented that "Finally... One must see the film, for the sake of the elusive culmination of its plot." The German Film Lexicon regarded it as "a criminal drama, the powerful statement of which is weakened by formalistic deficiencies."
Flucht ins Schweigen
' on zweitausendundeins.de.
References
External links
*
Flucht ins Schweigen' on the IMDb.
on ostfilm.de.
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1966 films
1966 crime films
German crime films
East German films
1960s German-language films
German black-and-white films
Police detective films
1960s German films