Septemberliebe

Septemberliebe (1961)

Leading chemist Hans Schramm is betrothed to Hanna, but falls in love with her younger sister Franka. The two attempt to repress their feelings, but eventually begin an affair. When Hans is extorted by a group of West German agents, who demand to know about his secret work, he is gripped by panic and decides the only way out is to flee to the West …

Data di uscita
1961-02-01
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (3)
Durata
1 h 18 min
Generi
Dramma
Regista
Kurt Maetzig

Cast

Curiosità

September Love is an East German film directed by Kurt Maetzig. It was released in 1961.

Production

While the Khrushchev Thaw allowed a considerable degree of liberalization in all Eastern Bloc countries, including in East Germany, the commitment of DEFA to follow the Socialist Unity Party of Germany's line was reaffirmed in the 1958 Bitterfeld Conference; although many pictures with less ideological restrictions were made at the time, the studio devoted considerable resources to produce films about the East-West tensions between the two German…

Maetzig told an interviewer that he was influenced by the sharpening political climate, on the eve of the erection of the Berlin Wall: "it became clear that a confrontation of some kind was brewing... We could not stand and watch... As events lurched toward a crisis".

The script was adapted from Herbert Otto's novel by the same name.

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