KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle | |
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Directed by | Horst E. Brandt |
Written by | Wera and Claus Küchenmeister |
Produced by | Heinz Herrmann, Wolfgang Rennebarth |
Starring | Horst Drinda, Irma Münch, Horst Schulze |
Cinematography | Günter Haubold |
Edited by | Erika Lehmphul |
Music by | Helmut Nier |
Production company | |
Distributed by | PROGRESS-Film Verleih |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
Country | East German Mark[1] |
KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra[2] (alternate title: KLK To PTX – The Red Band;[3] German: KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle) is a 1971 East German film about the history of the Red Orchestra espionage ring.
Plot
After
Cast
- Horst Drinda: Arvid Harnack
- Irma Münch: Mildred Harnack
- Horst Schulze: Adam Kuckhoff
- Barbara Adolph: Greta Kuckhoff
- Klaus Piontek: Harro Schulze-Boysen
- Jutta Wachowiak: Libertas Schulze-Boysen
- Harry Pietzsch: Walter Küchenmeister
- Karin Lesch: Elfriede Paul
- Marylu Poolman: Elisabeth Schumacher
- Eberhard Esche: Kurt Schumacher
- Katharina Lind: Oda Schottmüller
- Günther Simon: John Sieg
- Jessy Rameik: Sophie Sieg
- Ursula Karusseit: Hilde Coppi
- Manfred Karge: Hans Coppi
- Leon Niemczyk: Vincente Douglas
- Siegfried Weiss: Wilhelm Canaris
- Alfred Müller: Wolfgang Langhoff
- Hannjo Hasse: guest in the American Embassy
- Alfred Struwe: Bellini
- Peter Sturm: Krapotschkin
- Horst Giese: Schröder
Production
Writer Claus Küchenmeister and his wife Wera began conducting interviews with former members of the Red Orchestra during 1966. Claus, son of the executed organization member Walter Küchenmeister, intended to make a documentary about the activities of his father. When officials in the Ministry of State Security's Department of Agitation heard of his project, he was granted full government support and access to previously undisclosed materials in the Ministry's archives. Rather than documentary, a full-length feature film was commissioned.[4]
Reception
KLK Calling PTZ was distributed in fifty-eight copies,[5] and sold 2,107,093 tickets in the first year after its release.[6]
On 4 October 1971, director Horst E. Brandt, cinematographer Günter Haubold and the Küchenmeister couple were awarded the
Daniela Bergahn noted that, while the film still "inflated" the role of the communists in the resistance to the Nazis, it "at least acknowledged" the participation of other groups.
References
- ^ KLK TO PTX - THE RED BAND. Archived 2012-06-04 at the Wayback Machine progress-film.de.
- Internet Movie Database
- ^ a b KLK an PTX - Die Rote Kapelle. defa.de.
- ISBN 978-3-89244-943-0. Page 263.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7190-6172-1. Pages 80, 97.
- ISBN 978-0-8078-5385-6. Page 289.
- ^ DEFA chronicle of 1971.
External links
- KLK Calling PTZ - The Red Orchestra on the IMDb.