Until two years we had to wait for Germany to be able to see the movie “City 44″. ZDF public television aired it as the “Warsaw 44″ in very good time slot. – It is a pearl on the long road to understand what happened – says naTemat Barbara, who watched the movie with her husband – 75-year-old German.
Saturday evening. Magda, who has nine years living in Berlin gets an email from his aunt from southern Germany:
Tomorrow is the ZDF at 22:00 movie City 44 (Warsaw 44) with Joseph Pawlowski. They do a big ad here. It’s about the Warsaw Uprising. Even Nov / EN-editor says that anyone who wants to UK must understand the movie to see. How do you have time I recommend, we want him necessarily see.
Magda also wanted. Therefore, in accordance with the recommendation of her aunt, on Sunday evening he sat in front of the TV. What is important, she did not herself. A film about the Warsaw Uprising also wanted to see her partner – Christian – 40-year-old German doctor. Not because of the uprising did not know anything. On the contrary. Like many Germans are aware of what happened on August 1, 1944 in occupied Warsaw. But he was curious as to how the Poles now look at the events of 71 years.
– The film had a very good announcement on television. The main news edition published material in which talked about the Warsaw Uprising, about the film, was also a statement Tomasz Lis, who strove for a long time to make the video was shown on German television – I hear from Magda, residents of Berlin.
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Movie move
Magda is convinced that the film Komasa been spotted in Germany. – He was well advertised and people know about it – says Polk. Christian after seeing the film said that it made a Hollywood-style, and mostly for young people, due to the large number of “fireworks”. – Threads bother him a little love shown in the film. In his opinion, it was unnecessary, because the story itself is so interesting and shocking that there was no need to embellish it so – I hear from Magda.
Germany know about the Warsaw Uprising, because a lot on this subject says . They ask whether it was needed at all, would not it be better if the Poles waited for the Russians etc. It comments that it was a patriotic uprising Polków who wanted to show, “we will give advice”.
Aunt Magda also watched “Warsaw 44″ with her German husband – 75-year-old Dieter, who was not a spectator, like everyone else. He survived the war and knows far more about it than the average German. – My husband was born in 1940, so it is no longer such a young boy. He was certainly touched – says Ms. Barbara lives in southern Germany.
Sensations Barbara and her husband Dieter are mixed. They both have a rich knowledge of history, because they believe the video passed too few facts from the past. – It is a pearl on the long road to understand what happened. The film highlighted the tragedy of these young people, little explaining why it happened. As someone now wants to thoroughly investigate what happened in Warsaw in 1944, he needs to dig deeper – says the Polish emigrant.According to Ms. Barbara, the movie could move people, who may start now more interested in those events. – Especially young people, because the old slowly dying out. By way – that interested me, I want to go further – says a resident of Ulm. Only if young Germans, to whom she could speak most unconventional form of the film are equally interested in history, what these elders?
Echoes “Cities”
lives in Berlin blogger Justin Dolecińska also have mixed feelings after the broadcast of the film. In her view, Germany willingly viewed “Tatort” (German crime series) than the Polish film “City 44″. – I have not met with great interest the film. The only mention of it appeared in the Polish section of Deutsche Welle, a German newspaper this topic in general did not move – he says naTemat.
Among young Germans I do not see interest in the subject of war. They are not interested in this topic as Poles do not identify themselves or with family histories of war. Despite initiatives such as. Zeszłoczorna exhibition Fri. & Gt; The Warsaw Uprising 1944 & lt; organized in Topography of Terror, young Germans are still distancing themselves from the history associated with the Second World War. Read more
Agata Lewandowski, director of the Migrant Film Festival Berlin emigre and a resident of cuts agrees with this opinion. From her observation is that the issue of the film on public television became interested in the German media of the highest quality. – I found an interesting article on this topic in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which is very opinion-magazine in Germany. The author talks about the film, and finally publishes very strong opinion. “It is the movie to see it to know what Poles have before their eyes when they think about the Second World War” – says naTemat Lewandowska.
Response to “Our mothers, our fathers”
Agata Lewandowska, who at our request, looked at the comments in the German-speaking part of the internet notes that the implementation of Komasa film is often compared to the Wachowski brothers’ trilogy – “The Matrix”.
– They come out also people who want to prove their knowledge of history and compare the Warsaw Rising to other events. Perfectly sums up this discussion, one saying: “we reflect on the pages of this forum, how to wage war in a fair, orderly way. And the most important is that war never was – says the journalist.
According to Agatha Lewandowski, many Germans passed the “City 44″ to typical anti-war film. It was almost like it was one of 50 other films on similar subjects. – They do this, not emotionally wondering what he brings behind. And here quote another citation German women of Hindu first and last name. “I shrugged my movie as The Pianist. I do not like an action movie aesthetics to such an important subject, “- says Agata Lewandowski, showing a discussion that began around the movie.
The issue Komasa film in German public television has been well received in response to the loud, German production” Generation War “. – People have pointed out that the answer to the movie was released only after two years. But a lot of time, and many people have already forgotten about that show – says Agata Lewandowski.
Movie John Komasa watched the ZDF 1.06 million people. As reported by the portal Virtual Media, aired a week earlier in the same band two-hour episode of the British TV series “Murder in Misdomer” was watched by 2.51 million viewers.
write to the author: krzysztof.majak@natemat.pl
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