Mich dürstet (1956)
Spain 1936: Despite the victory of the Popular Front, nothing has changed for the peasants; the grandees continue to oppress them. The poor peasant son Pablo fights back and encourages the others to demand their rights. The grandees flee. Students from Madrid arrive and help the rural population to democratize. Pablo falls in love with Magdalena and learns to read and write from her. When Franco begins his bloody attack on the young republic, they defend the village together. When Magdalena dies in a bombing raid by German planes, Pablo begins to hate the Germans. However, fighting together with the International Brigades, he realizes that there are other Germans too, and that they share a common enemy.
- Date of release
- 1956-07-19
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Karl Paryla
Casting
- Edwin Marian — Pablo
- Isabell Carenato — Magdalena
- Harry Hindemith — Taga
- Uwe-Jens Pape — Carlos
- Maria Wendt — Pilar
- Curt Paulus — Jacinto
- Gert Beinemann — Pedro Bernardo
- Rolf Ludwig — Cerefino
- Harald Jopt — Lopez
- Charles Hans Vogt — Rodriguez
- Karl Block — Baptiste
- Friedrich Wolf — Gustavo
Interesting facts
Mich dürstet is an East German film. The film was directed by Austrian socialist filmmaker Karl Paryla for the state-owned DEFA film studio. It was released in 1956. The film was based on a 1946 short story by Walter Gorrisch, "Um Spaniens Freiheit" ; Gorrisch also wrote the screenplay.
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