Death Is My Trade (1977)
November 18, 1977Release Date
Death Is My Trade (1977)
November 18, 1977Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Götz George
Franz Lang
Elisabeth Schwarz
Else Lang
Kai Taschner
Franz Lang als Junge
Hans Korte
Heinrich Himmler
Walter Czaschke
Adolf Eichmann
Kurt Hübner
Oberst von Jeseritz
Sigurd Fitzek
Hauptmann Günther
Matthias Fuchs
Sturmbannführer Kellner
Werner Schwuchow
Obersturmführer
Claus-Dieter Reents
Obersturmführer Setzler
Peter Franke
Schrader
Werner Eichhorn
Arbeiter Erich
Theodor Kotulla
Director
Peter Moland
Arbeiter Henckel
Peter Petran
Karl
Robert Merle
Writer
Volker Canaris
Producer
Brigitte Janner
Magd
Klaus Münster
Landarbeiter
Josef Quadflieg
Georg
Eberhard Weber
Composer
Elisabeth Stepanek
Krankenschwester
Dieter Naujeck
Cinematographer
Wolfgang Richter
Editor
Yaak Karsunke
Unteroffizier
Wilfried Elste
Arbeiter Siebert
Wolfgang Schünke
ProductionDesigner
Evelyn Matzura
Franz Langs Mutter
Hermann Günther
Soldat Schmitz
Dietrich Kerky
Leutnant im Freikorps
Claus Enskat
SA-Mann Freddie
Hans Schulze
US-Oberstleutnant
Claus Fuchs
Geschäftsführer
Christa Helwig
Assistant Editor
Uta Wilhelm
Costume Design
Hajo Jörgens
Property Master
Gerd Schuberth
Makeup Artist
Annette Groschupp
Makeup Artist
Jürgen Hasenack
Assistant Camera
Gabriele Friedrichs
Assistant Editor
Harald Kratzer
Still Photographer
Friedel Zachäus
Lighting Design
Willi Meier
Lighting Technician
Michael Lünebach
Lighting Technician
Georg Bringezu
Lighting Technician
Hans Neu
Dolly Grip
Wolfgang Fredrich
Property Master
Günter Scheir
Special Effects
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 18, 1977
Original NameAus einem deutschen Leben
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 25m
Genres
Wiki.
Death is My Trade (German: Aus einem deutschen Leben) is a 1977 German film, which is based on the script of director Theodor Kotulla starring Götz George in the leading role. The realisation of the script is based on the French novel La mort est mon métier by Robert Merle, which was published in 1952 (English edition: Death Is My Trade).
Like the novel, the film is partly based on interrogation records of the trial against Rudolf Höß, SS-officer and commander of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, as well as on his autobiographical notes. He made these notes first during his time as British POW, then, after he was extradited, as Polish prisoner in 1946/47, before he was executed as a convicted war criminal. Instead of using the name Rudolf Höß, whose life was the model for the film, the pseudonym Franz Lang is used, in order that he remain anonymous. The real Rudolf Höß had gone into hiding allegedly working as a boatman after World War II using this (fake) name until he was unmasked and arrested in 1946.
The film is divided into 14 different episodes, which describe fragmentary and important scenes of Franz Lang's (alias Rudolf Höss) life.