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The flight = Die Flucht
Title
The flight = Die Flucht / Szenarium, Hannes Hüttner ; Dramaturgie, Christel Gräf ; Regie, Roland Gräf.
Published
[Berlin] : Icestorm Entertainment ; Amherst, MA : DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, ©2011.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Videodisc release of the 1977 motion picture.
Special features: biographies and filmographies; From the archive - interviews with Christel and Roland Gräf; Commercial escape organizations: the GDR's Public Enemy Number One, by historian Marion Detjen; Original film poster; About the DEFA Film Library.
Camera, Claus Neumann ; music, Gunther Fischer, with motifs from Mussorgsky ; editor, Monika Schindler.
In German with optional English subtitles.
Summary
"When Dr. Schmith's (Armin Mueller-Stahl) proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina (Jenny Gröllmann). Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly ..."--Internet Movie Database.
Variant and related titles
Die Flucht
Flight
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
German
Added to Catalog
August 15, 2018
Credits
Camera, Claus Neumann ; music, Gunther Fischer, with motifs from Mussorgsky ; editor, Monika Schindler.
Performers
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jenny Gröllmann, Erika Pelikowsky, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Karin Gregorek, Simone von Zglinicki.
System details note
DVD-R.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Foreign films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
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