DEFA Film Library Catalog

Your Unknown Brother

Original Title: Dein unbekannter Bruder
East Germany, 1982, 108 min., color
Director: Ulrich Weiss

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$24.95

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	Home Use and Public Libraries
	Educational Use and Academic Libraries	plus $30.00
	Non-Commercial Public Performance	plus $100.00

DVD Special Features:
English and German Menus, Biographies & Filmographies, Newsreels, "Member of Resistance: Irene Harloff Remembers", Introductory Essay, Photo Gallery

Synopsis:
1935, after being released from a concentration camp, Arnold Clasen remains committed to the underground anti-Nazi resistance in Hamburg. Otherwise, he lives quietly and works as a film projectionist. Arnold is in love with Renate but she does not share his political convictions, - a fact that only adds to his sense of isolation. When he seeks the friendship of Konrad, a fellow resistor, Arnold cannot help mistrusting him. Suspicions are running high, and in the wake of recent arrests only Walter emerges unscathed. Is he a Nazi informer? Based on Willi Bredel's book of the same name.

Press Comments:
"This film is narrated from a psychological point of view showing guts to experiment and great sense of style." -- Katholisches Institut fuer Medienforschung, 2002

"It has been for quite a time that I haven't been able to forget so many of the images in a DEFA-film, as I did in this one." -- Jutta Voigt, filmjournalist, Sonntag 22/1982

"A Milestone." -- The Museum of Modern Art

"Uses a keen sense of psychological drama to investigate the intrigue, betrayal and paranoia of the underground resistance movement to National Socialism in 1930s Hamburg." -- Leeds International Film Festival

"Director Ulrich Weiss was the greatest talent to emerge from the Babelsberg film school in the 1970s." -- The Oxford History of World Cinema

Crew:
Cinematography: Claus Neumann
Music: Peter Rabenalt
Set Design: Paul Lehmann
Editor: Ursula Rudzki
Costume Design: Lydia Fiege
Producer: Rolf Martius
Dramaturge: Gabriele Kotte
Screenplay: Wolfgang Trampe

Cast:
Uwe Kockisch (Arnold)
Michael Gwisdek (Walter)
Jenny Groellmann (Renate)
Bohumil Vavra (Deisen)
Michael Gerber (Stefan)
Arno Wyzniewski (Geheimdienstmann)

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