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KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle
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 Hitler's rise to power in 1933, a group of regime opponents from various backgrounds consolidated under the leadership of

German invasion of the Soviet Union, they intensify their work. In August 1942, the Gestapo
arrests Boysen and soon after cracks down on the spy ring.

Cast

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

National Prize 1st class for their work on the film.[7] They, dramatist Anne Pfeuffer and actors Horst Drinda, Irma Münch, Horst Schulze, Klaus Piontek, Barbara Adolph, Jutta Wachowiak, Manfred Karge, Ursula Karusseit, Harry Pietzsch, Eberhard Esche and Günther Simon were all granted the Art Prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation in the same year.[3]

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.

West German story version was disseminated in the television mini series "Die rote Kapelle
".

References

  1. ^ KLK TO PTX - THE RED BAND. Archived 2012-06-04 at the Wayback Machine progress-film.de.
  2. Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ a b KLK an PTX - Die Rote Kapelle. defa.de.
  4. ISBN 978-3-89244-943-0
    . Page 263.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7190-6172-1
    . Pages 80, 97.
  6. ISBN 978-0-8078-5385-6
    . Page 289.
  7. ^ DEFA chronicle of 1971.

External links

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