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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A POW camp in the Soviet Union. Four young Germans exchange their uniforms to fight alongside the former enemy for a quicker end to the war. In Soviet uniform they drive with their caregiver on the train to the front. The fellow traveler does not hide long that they are German. It is not easy for them to cope with the new identity. In the camp they were referred to by some comrades as traitors. The behavior of the Soviet soldiers towards them is different. Some are uncertain, others consider them as equals. Arriving at the front, they have to decide whether to take an order behind the German lines. One stays behind. The others go to the forest to prepare for the partisan fight, and suddenly encounter downed German airmen. They are not capable of shooting at the Germans; her caretaker Kolja costs her life. His death causes great concern to them. In the meantime, the retarded German and the Soviet radio operator Svetlana have fallen in love. She holds to him, although he is criticized by some Russians. Finally, he decides to use.

Film text: Mom, I live. A screenplay by Wolfgang Kohlhaase. In film and television 1977/5.

(Source: The Second Life of the Film City Babelsberg, DEFA Feature Films 1946-1992)

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Language:German
Subtitles:English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Lithuanian, Spanish

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The Dreileben trilogy comes to a nail-biting close with director Christoph Hochhäusler’s expert thriller, which also brings escaped felon Molosch—a peripheral character in the first two parts—into sharp focus. Hot on the killer’s trail, grizzled police inspector Marcus (Eberhard Kirchberg) tries to put himself inside the mind of the criminal, even as he begins to wonder if the condemned man really is guilty as charged. Meanwhile, as Molosch (brilliantly played by Stefan Kurt) flees deeper into Dreileben’s possibly enchanted forest, he has an unexpectedly tender encounter with a young runaway girl—scenes that echo the Frankenstein story and transform One Minute of Darkness into a dark, memorably strange fairy tale.

Three of the brightest talents at work in contemporary German cinema, Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler have each made a feature-length film on the same general subject—the escape of a convicted criminal in a small central German town—but told from completely different points of view and in radically contrasting filmmaking styles: one as an offbeat youth romance, one as a Big Chill-style relationship drama, and one as a tense police procedural. Taken together, these compulsively watchable films make for generous entertainment and a fascinating exercise in the polymorphous possibilities of storytelling. (-filmlinc.com)

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A trio of interlocking films rather than a standard trilogy or omnibus, Dreileben is an invigorating experiment in narrative construc­tion by three of Germany’s leading filmmakers. Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler began an impassioned e-mail exchange prompted by the German film magazine Revolver. That conversation — on the implications of film style and genre, aesthetic possibility and the so-called Berlin School, a loose movement of contemporary German auteurs — led to the creation of one the most exciting collaborative film projects in recent times, in which attentive viewing yields surprising pleasures and chills aplenty.

The premise of Dreileben (literally “three lives”) stems from an incident in which a convicted murderer and sex offender escaped from a hospital, setting off a manhunt. Each director chose a different angle from which to tell the story, and did so in their respective signature style. The result is an idiosyncratic yet modestly masterful cubist puzzle in which points of view continuously shift focus, and a transmuted storyline engages the audience’s imagination and sense of visual recall. The films cumulatively reveal parallel worlds, moving from Petzold’s cool, Hitchcockian romantic thriller (Beats Being Dead); to Graf’s novelistic criminal investigation (Don’t Follow Me Around); to Hochhäusler’s dual psycho­logical character study that veers toward a Thuringian fairytale. A feverish tension builds over the five-hour whole as characters inter­sect and suspicions are overturned.

Although made by filmmaker/critics, Dreileben checks its theory at the door to give us the year’s most refreshing, play­ful and clever instances of inter-narrative filmmaking. (-tiff.net)

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Subtitles:English

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