Sie nannten ihn Amigo

DDR 1958/1959 Spielfilm

Summary

They Called Him Amigo

Germany, 1939. A 13-year-old boy from Berlin, Rainer Meister, known as Amigo, finds a man in the junk room of the cellar in the back courtyard. This is Pepp, a political prisoner who has fled a concentration camp. Born into a family of working-class communists, Amigo is well aware of the danger involved in helping Pepp. Nevertheless, help he does; he also makes his two confidants, his younger brother and friend, swear to remain silent. But the friend confides in his father. The latter, a self-satisfied, cowardly Nazi sympathiser, eventually becomes a denunciator.

Source: 69. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Comments

You have seen this movie? We are looking forward to your comment!

Credits

Director

Director of photography

Editing

Music

Cast

All Credits

Director

Assistant director

Director of photography

Assistant camera

Still photography

Lighting design

Production design

Set construction

Property master

Make-up artist

Costume design

Editing

Sound

Music

Cast

Unit production manager

Original distributor

Duration:
1721 m, 63 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 22.01.1959, Berlin, Babylon, Vorwärts/Karlshorst

Titles

  • Originaltitel (DD) Sie nannten ihn Amigo

Versions

Original

Duration:
1721 m, 63 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 22.01.1959, Berlin, Babylon, Vorwärts/Karlshorst