Herrenpartie

original title:
Herrenpartie
other titles:
Muski izlet, Destination Death
country / year of production:
Germany , Yugoslavia / 1964
original length:
92 min. , black/white
premiere:
27 February 1964
genre:
melodrama
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director:
Wolfgang Staudte
film script:
Arsen Diklic , Werner Jörg Lüddecke
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cast (role):
Hans Nielsen , Götz George
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plot synopsis:
Eight German men are one a bus trip with their choir, when they run out of petrol in Yugoslavia. The village near by is only habitated by women who all wear balck. Their husbands were killed by German soldiers in World War II. This is why they don't want to help the choir. Instead they start their own revenge.
keywords:
occupation , execution , post-war era , war crimes , shell shock , fascism
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
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Won two awards at the "German Film Awards" in 1964.
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