Stunde Null

original title:
Stunde Null
other titles:
Zero Hour
country / year of production:
Germany / 1977
original length:
108 min. , black/white
premiere:
13 May 1977
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
Edgar Reitz
film script:
Edgar Reitz , Peter F. Steinbach
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cast (role):
Klaus Dierig , Anette Jünger , Erich Kleiber
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plot synopsis:
The film takes place in 1945 between the departure of the Americans and the advance of the Russians and deals with the boy Joschi, who stops in a small village on his way west. The population of the village is worried by uncertainty and doubt. At "Zero Hour" positive and negative feelings are very close to each other.
keywords:
youth during wartime , post-war era , home front , occupation , children , escape
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Uta Gerhardt: Soziologie der Stunde Null: Zur Gesellschaftskonzeption des amerikanischen Besatzungsregimes in Deutschland 1944-1945/46. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2005. ISBN: 3-518-29368-0

Wolfgang Trees: Stunde Null in Deutschland: Die westliche Besatzungszone 1945-1948, ein Bild-Text-Band. Bindlach: Gondrom, 1989. ISBN: 3-8112-0651-6

Ernesto Cardenal: Die Stunde Null. Wuppertal: Hammer, 1980. ISBN: 3-87294-147-X
remarks:
Was filmed in Emmerstedt and Helmstedt.

Won a price at the "German Film Awards" in 1977.
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