WWI Film Collection: Farewell [DVD] [UK Import]

Vereinigte Königreich Edition, PAL/Region 0 DVD: TON: Englisch ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Englisch ( Mono ), BONUSMATERIAL: Schwarz und Weiß, Szene Zugang, Wechselwirkendes Menü, SYNOPSIS: Einen sensiblen Gymnasiasten führt die Opposition gegen das reaktionär-militaristische Elternhaus zum Sozialismus und Pazifismus und zum Bruch mit der bürgerlichen Welt. Verfilmung des autobiografischen Romans des ehemaligen DDR-Kulturministers Johannes R. Becher; formal beachtlich, auch als gleichnishafte Satire auf die Emanzipation von einer versteinerten Obrigkeit interpretierbar. Nach kurzem Einsatz in der DDR nur noch für Sondervorführungen freigegeben.

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...Farewell (1968) ( Abschied )
In 1914 many young men euphorically volunteered to go and fight the First World War. Hans Gastl was one of those who took his leave from his mother and his militaristically inclined father, a state prosecutor in Munich. Hans does not become a soldier, he is against the war and his bourgeois parental upbringing. Their burghers hypocrisy and pseudo-morality repulse him. Regardless of his father s fury, Hans refuses to participate; he wants to change his life.

The film, based on the novel by Johannes R. Becher, recounts in flashback-form the story of Hans tender love to the housemaid, a love that is brutally repressed by his father; of his time in a boarding school for badly behaved children; of his love for a former prostitute with a fateful end; of his friendship to the Jew Löwenstein and the working-class boy Hartlinger.

It is a film about searching, rebellion and the growth of understanding. It was considered particularly valuable in GDR reviews, only then to be withdrawn from circulation.