''Das Leben geht weiter'' (also known as ''Life Goes On'') is a 2002 German
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
directed by
Mark Cairns. It's based on the book by the same name written by , the film meticulously reconstructs the last months of the
Third Reich
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
.
Synopsis
Autumn 1944 – The
Third Reich
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
is near to collapse and the first
Allied soldiers are on German soil. Meanwhile, just outside Berlin, the cameras start rolling on one of the biggest propaganda films ever planned by the Nazis: ' – a film intended to show how the German people cope and retain their spirit through the destruction and horror of their everyday life, struggling through to the promised victory. The premiere for this film was planned for the end of June 1945, two months after the war was lost. This is the absurd and often tragic story behind the making of ''Das Leben geht weiter''.
Cast
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Dieter Moor ... Narrador
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Hans Abich
Hans Abich (4 August 1918 – 17 July 2003) was a German film producer.Rentschler p.13
Selected filmography
* '' Love '47'' (1949)
* ''Keepers of the Night'' (1949)
* '' A Day Will Come'' (1950)
* '' The Day Before the Wedding'' (1952)
* '' His ...
... Himself
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Günther Anders
Günther Anders (born Günther Siegmund Stern, 12 July 1902 – 17 December 1992) was a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist.
Trained in the phenomenological tradition, he developed a philosophical anthropolo ...
... Himself (voice) (archive footage)
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Frank Brückner ... Soldado
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Joseph Goebbels ... Himself (as Josef Goebbels)
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Heinz Graue ... Himself
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Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the highpoint of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film '' Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversia ...
... Himself (archive footage)
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Elisabeth Lennartz ... Himself (as Elisabeth Knuth-Lennartz)
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Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner (6 October 1905 – 28 November 1987) was a German actor, film director and theatre director.
Beginnings
He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of th ...
... Himself (archive footage)
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Gunnar Möller
Gunnar Möller (1 July 1928 – 16 May 2017) was a German television and film actor. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He was most successful as a leading man in German cinema of the 1950s, especially w ...
... Himself
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Heinz Pehlke
Heinz Pehlke (October 8, 1922 – March 12, 2002) was a freelance German cinematographer in film and television. In 1943, he worked as an assistant on the Nazi propaganda film, '' Kolberg'' directed by Veit Harlan and in 1962, on the anti-Nazi tele ...
... Himself
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Karl Ritter ... Himself (archive footage)
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Siegfried Wolter ... Himself
Awards
See also
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
References
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2002 films
German documentary films
2002 documentary films
Documentary films about World War II
2000s German films
Films about filmmaking