Rotation
Rotation
The film focuses on the laborer Hans Behnke, who has finally become a machine supervisor at the rotary press of a big publishing house after long, hard years of unemployment. He does not really like the Nazis, but when they come to power he follows the path of least resistance, ending up a party member.
It is not until a confrontation with his brother-in-law, a communist in the active resistance, and the outbreak of war that he begins to think and act. He helps to set up a printing machine for illegal leaflets. His son – entangled in persecution and confusion as a result of a fascist education – denounces him, he is arrested, and sentenced to death. By chance, he survives the war, but his wife is killed. When his son returns from a prisoner-of-war camp, hesitant and uncertain whether his father will take him in, Behnke knows that he must face the future side by side with the young man – as the older generation bears the greater responsibility for the tragedy of the German youth.
Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Hans Behnke
- Lotte Behnke
- Kurt Blank
- Rudi Wille
- Udo Schulze
- Personalchef "VB"
- 1. SD-Mann
- 2. SD-Mann
- Hebamme
- Frau Salomon
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Screenplay
Story
Script editor
Director of photography
Still photography
Production design
Set construction
Costume design
Editing
Sound
Music
Cast
- Hans Behnke
- Lotte Behnke
- Kurt Blank
- Rudi Wille
- Udo Schulze
- Personalchef "VB"
- 1. SD-Mann
- 2. SD-Mann
- Hebamme
- Frau Salomon
- Herr Salomon
- Besucher
- Wirtin
- Schauspieler
- Hauswirt
- 1. Arbeiter im Rotationssaal
- Vorarbeiterin in der Weberei
- 2. Arbeiter im Rotationssaal
- SS-Mann
- SS-Offizier in Moabit
- Ordonnanz
- Luftschutzhelfer
- SD-Mann
- Flüchtlingsfrau
- SS-Mann im Gefängnishof
- Adjutant
- MG-Schütze
- 1. Arbeiter am Fabriktor
- 2. Arbeiter am Fabriktor
- 3. Arbeiter am Fabriktor
- 4. Arbeiter am Fabriktor
- 1. Arbeiter im Rotationssaal
- 2. Arbeiter im Rotationssaal
- 3. Arbeiter im Rotationssaal
- 4. Arbeiter im Rotationssaal
- 5. Arbeiter im Rotationssaal
Production company
Unit production manager
Location manager
Production assistant
Original distributor
Shoot
- 29.09.1948 - November 1948: Potsdam, Berlin
Zensur (DD): 31.08.1949 [Sowjetische Militärzensur]
Uraufführung (DD): 16.09.1949, Berlin, Babylon, Defa-Filmtheater Kastanienallee;
TV-Erstsendung (DD): 30.04.1954, DFF;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 13.05.1958, ARD
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Rotation
- Weiterer Titel (DE) Sowjetische Zone
Versions
Original
Zensur (DD): 31.08.1949 [Sowjetische Militärzensur]
Uraufführung (DD): 16.09.1949, Berlin, Babylon, Defa-Filmtheater Kastanienallee;
TV-Erstsendung (DD): 30.04.1954, DFF;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 13.05.1958, ARD
Prüffassung
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 09.06.1965, 01205 [5. FSK-Prüfung];
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 20.04.1950, 01205, Uneingeschränkt
Erstaufführung (DE): Mai 1950