Jörg Ratgeb - Maler (1978)

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Director:

Bernhard Stephan

Writers:

Manfred Freitag (scenario)
Joachim Nestler (scenario)

Release Date:

26 May 1978 (East Germany)

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Alois Svehlík	...	Jörg Ratgeb
Margrit Tenner	...	Barbara
Olgierd Lukaszewicz	...	Bischof
Günter Naumann	...	Joß Fritz
Malgorzata Braunek	...	Junge Bäurin
Henry Hübchen	...	Thomas Niedler
Rolf Hoppe	...	Gaukler
Marylu Poolman	...	Seine Frau
Martin Trettau	...	Albrecht Dürer
Helga Göring	...	Agnes Dürer
Hilmar Baumann	...	Vogt
Thomas Neumann	...	Christoph Enderlin
Monika Hildebrand	...	Frau Ratgeb
Giso Weißbach	...	Kommandeur
Günter Rüger	...	Fiedler

Also Known As:

Jörg Ratgeb - Painter (International: English title)

Runtime:

East Germany:101 min

Country:

East Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Deutsche Film (DEFA)

Awesome movie about midevil times, totally overlooked !

I watched this movie in west germany, where I was able to get east german TV. I was not only impressed about the accurate details of this film noir, but also about the very suspensefull story.

This movie accomplished a high degree of realism, in sometimes gritty fashion. There is no sugar coating, like in most hollywood productions about this topic, nor any gross overdramatisations. A movie that has to be seen , to be believed.

I hope there will be a time, where the viewers will get fed up with the constant "fantasy - run of the mill" material, and view movies that portrait more historic realism. Like this movie truly does. This movie proofs, that they can be also highly entertaining: Great battle scenes with awesome fotography.