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Königskinder

DDR 1961/1962 Spielfilm

Royal Children

The film tells the story of three young people in Berlin during the 1930s. Magdalena and Michael are in love. Jürgen, the third one, eventually comes to term with the Nazis because he wants to live in peace. Michael and Magdalena on the other hand want to put up resistance. Then, Michael gets arrested and is sentenced to 15 years in jail. When Magdalena also gets in danger, Jürgen helps her although he has become a member of the SA in the meantime. During the war, Michael is sent to a penal battalion. At the front, he and Jürgen meet again and both desert to the Red Army. But the film does not reveal if there will be a reunion with Magdalena who by now also fights for the Red Army.

 

Credits

Director

  • Frank Beyer

Screenplay

  • Edith Gorrish
  • Walter Gorrish

Director of photography

  • Günter Marczinkowsky

Editing

  • Hildegard Conrad-Nöller

Music

  • Joachim Werzlau

Cast

  • Annekathrin Bürger
    Magdalena
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Michael
  • Ulrich Thein
    Jürgen
  • Marga Legal
    Mutter Seifert
  • Charlotte Küter
    Hanna Bartels
  • Monika Lennartz
    Katja
  • Gertraud Kreißig
    Lehrmädchen Ursula
  • Natalja J. Iljina
    Wera
  • Talla S. Nowikowa
    Pilotin
  • Leonid P. Swetlow
    Sowjetischer Soldat Sascha

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Roter Kreis")

Alle Credits

Director

  • Frank Beyer

Assistant director

  • Rolf Losansky

Screenplay

  • Edith Gorrish
  • Walter Gorrish

Script editor

  • Gerhard Hartwig

Director of photography

  • Günter Marczinkowsky

Assistant camera

  • Klaus Groch

2nd Camera unit

  • Karl Dömmer

Still photography

  • Waltraut Pathenheimer

Lighting design

  • Günther Müller

Production design

  • Alfred Hirschmeier

Set construction

  • Willi Schäfer

Prop master

  • Hans Kühnel
  • Adolf Jark

Make-up artist

  • Lothar Stäglich
  • Rosemarie Stäglich

Costume design

  • Joachim Dittrich

Editing

  • Hildegard Conrad-Nöller

Sound

  • Werner Blass

Music

  • Joachim Werzlau

Cast

  • Annekathrin Bürger
    Magdalena
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Michael
  • Ulrich Thein
    Jürgen
  • Marga Legal
    Mutter Seifert
  • Charlotte Küter
    Hanna Bartels
  • Monika Lennartz
    Katja
  • Gertraud Kreißig
    Lehrmädchen Ursula
  • Natalja J. Iljina
    Wera
  • Talla S. Nowikowa
    Pilotin
  • Leonid P. Swetlow
    Sowjetischer Soldat Sascha
  • Nikolaij Lukinow
    Sowjetischer Major
  • Walter Lendrich
    Schröter
  • Günter Naumann
    Soldat Herbert
  • Fred Delmare
    Soldat Albert
  • Erik Veldre
    Soldat Hans
  • Manfred Krug
    Hauptmann
  • Erich Brauer
    Röder
  • Johannes Maus
    Anton
  • Waldemar Jacobi
    Schuster
  • Horst Jonischkan
    Junger Soldat
  • Senta Cordel
  • Heinz Damaske
  • Paul Funk
  • Hans Flössel
  • Kurt Großer
  • Klaus Gehrke
  • Freimut Götsch
  • Peter Hill
  • Maximilian Larsen
  • Gerhard Lah
  • Fred Ludwig
  • Rolf Losansky
  • Horst Lommatzsch
  • Heinz-Walter Mörke
  • Frank Michelis
  • Jürgen Plust
  • Hans Sievers
  • Günter Quast
  • Günther Schmidt
  • Albert Zahn
  • Nico Turoff
  • Martina Noack
  • Bernd Meding
  • Joachim Scheyer

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Roter Kreis")

Unit production manager

  • Hans Mahlich

Location manager

  • Fried Eichel
  • Oskar Ludmann

Original distributor

  • Progress Film-Verleih (Berlin/Ost)
Duration:
2435 m, 89 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 08.06.1962, Gotha, 4. Arbeiterfestspiele

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DD) Königskinder

Versions

Original

Duration:
2435 m, 89 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 08.06.1962, Gotha, 4. Arbeiterfestspiele

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