| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): .flv file, sound |
| Summary |
Based on Hermann Kant's autobiographical novel, the acclaimed film HELD FOR QUESTIONING raises existential questions about crime and punishment, as well as obedience and responsibility. In the fall of 1945, a few months after the end of WWII, 19-year-old German POW Mark Niebuhr (Sylvester Groth, "Inglourious Basterds") arrives with other prisoners at a train station near Warsaw. When a Polish woman accuses him of being the Nazi officer who killed her daughter, Mark is thrown into a Kafkaesque nightmare of accusations and persecution--first in solitary confinement, then among hostile Polish prisoners, and finally with German Nazis who assume he is a spy planted by the Poles. East Germany's official submission for the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Venice Film Festival** |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
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Film |
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In Process Record |
| Performer |
Fred Düren, Matthias Günther, Sylvester Groth |
| Event |
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1982 |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, German.
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Foreign films.
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Drama.
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Balts (Indo-European people)
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German language.
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War films.
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Motion pictures.
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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Balts (Indo-European people)
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Drama.
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Foreign films.
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German language.
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Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures, German.
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War films.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Feature films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Beyer, Frank, film director
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Düren, Fred, actor
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Günther, Matthias, actor
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Groth, Sylvester, actor
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DEFA Film Library (Firm),
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Kanopy (Firm)
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