13 Minutes

13 Minutes

2DCS/ES
Director:Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast:Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow
Length:114 minutes
Genre:War, Drama, Biographical

Das Filmfest 2016 - DFF Spezial

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel  •  Cast: Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow

During Hitler’s anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Bürgerbräukeller, immediately behind the Führer’s lectern, killing eight people. The man is Georg Elser (Christian Friedel), a carpenter from Königsbronn in the Swabia region. When a map of the site of the assault and detonators are found on him, he is sent to the head of the Criminal Police in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Arthur Nebe (Burghart Klaussner) and the head of the Gestapo, Heinrich Müller (Johann von Bülow) to be questioned. From them, Elser learns that his attempt has failed – that the man he wanted to kill in order to stop the bloodshed of the World War that had just begun, hast left the Bürgerbräukeller 13 MINUTES before the explosion. For days, Elser is interrogated by Nebe and Müller, for days, he holds out against their questions. Until he finally confesses – and relates the story of his deed. Thus Elser remembers how National Socialism slowly metastasised in his home village. How he attempted to oppose it, together with his best friend Josef Schurr (David Zimmerschied) and a few others. How he met Elsa (Katharina Schüttler), fell in love with her, but because of his plans had to turn away from her, his friends and his family. And how, finally, he acted: How he built the bomb, and installed it at the site in long nights of work. He, who acted all on his own, as he again and again swears to Nebe and Müller, who torture him in order to find his instigators. After the interrogation, he is brought to the concentration camps Sachsenhausen and Dachau, where Georg Elser is finally murdered, on Hitler’s personal order, on April 9, 1945 – only days before the war ends.

Length: 114 min

Year: 2015

Country of origin:

  • Germany

Das Filmfest 2016 - DFF Spezial

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel  •  Cast: Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow

During Hitler’s anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Bürgerbräukeller, immediately behind the Führer’s lectern, killing eight people. The man is Georg Elser (Christian Friedel), a carpenter from Königsbronn in the Swabia region. When a map of the site of the assault and detonators are found on him, he is sent to the head of the Criminal Police in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Arthur Nebe (Burghart Klaussner) and the head of the Gestapo, Heinrich Müller (Johann von Bülow) to be questioned. From them, Elser learns that his attempt has failed – that the man he wanted to kill in order to stop the bloodshed of the World War that had just begun, hast left the Bürgerbräukeller 13 MINUTES before the explosion. For days, Elser is interrogated by Nebe and Müller, for days, he holds out against their questions. Until he finally confesses – and relates the story of his deed. Thus Elser remembers how National Socialism slowly metastasised in his home village. How he attempted to oppose it, together with his best friend Josef Schurr (David Zimmerschied) and a few others. How he met Elsa (Katharina Schüttler), fell in love with her, but because of his plans had to turn away from her, his friends and his family. And how, finally, he acted: How he built the bomb, and installed it at the site in long nights of work. He, who acted all on his own, as he again and again swears to Nebe and Müller, who torture him in order to find his instigators. After the interrogation, he is brought to the concentration camps Sachsenhausen and Dachau, where Georg Elser is finally murdered, on Hitler’s personal order, on April 9, 1945 – only days before the war ends.

Year: 2015

Country of origin:

  • Germany