The Escape In The Silent (film)
Encyclopedia
Flucht ins Schweigen is an East German black-and-white film, directed by Siegfried Hartmann. It was released in 1966.
reveal the corpse of a member of the Waffen-SS
, 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.
, published at 1964.
Plot
Construction works carried out in a small village in ThuringiaThuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
reveal the corpse of a member of the Waffen-SS
Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. It constituted the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside...
, 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
Volkspolizei
The Volkspolizei , or VP, were the national police of the German Democratic Republic . The Volkspolizei were responsible for most law enforcement in East Germany, but its organisation and structure were such that it could be considered a paramilitary force as well...
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
- Fritz DiezFritz DiezNot to be confused with the West German industrialist Fritz Dietz.Fritz Diez was a German actor, producer, director and theater manager.-Early life:...
as Stetter - Dieter Wien as Hoffmann
- Marita Böhme as Helga Klink
- Regine Albrecht as Inge Klink
- Jirí Vrstála as Wills
- Hans-Joachim Hanisch as Zschunke
- Hans Hardt-Hardtloff as Schindler
- Karlheinz Liefers as priest
- Wolfgang Brunecker as Möller
- Rolf Ludwig as Karl Reinhold
- Horst Schön as SS man
- Ernst-Georg Schwill as police clerk
- Siegfried WeißSiegfried Weiß (actor)-Biography:Weiss made his artistic debut on the stage of the Halberstadt Theater, at 1924. He continued his career in the theaters of Luebeck, Koenigsberg, Magdeburg, Leipzig and Berlin, where he acted in the Berlin Ensemble, among others....
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 DucatsDucat
The ducat is a gold coin that was used as a trade coin throughout Europe before World War I. Its weight is 3.4909 grams of .986 gold, which is 0.1107 troy ounce, actual gold weight...
, published at 1964.
Reception
At 1966, Albert Wilkening wrote that "this thriller continues the honored tradition of DEFA, 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."External links
- Flucht ins Schweigen on the IMDb.
- Flucht ins Schweigen original poster on ostfilm.de.