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    • Source: Anna Susanna

      • Anna Susanna is an East German drama film directed by Richard Nicolas. It was released in 1953.


      Plot


      During the Great Depression, a rich businessman named Brinkmann decides to sink his ship, Anna Susanna, in order to collect on the insurance. He orders its captain, Kleiers, to sabotage it while at sea. When Kleiers carries out his instructions, he is spotted by several sailors and passengers. The captain is killed in the ensuing fight, but not before he manages to shipwreck Anna Susanna. Only a handful of people survive. After they return home, they discover that Brinkmann's insurance fraud worked and he was compensated. They sue him at court and manage to have him indicted.


      Cast


      Günther Simon as Orje
      Peter Marx as Fietje
      Werner Peters as Kuddel
      Harry Hindemith as Emil
      Herbert Richter as Kleiers
      Alfred Maack as Peer Frensen
      Maly Delschaft as Kuddel's mother
      Aribert Grimmer as Kuddel's father
      Arno Paulsen as Jan Brödel
      Werner Pledath as Brinkmann
      Fritz Wagner as Uwe Frahm
      Hans Olaf Moser as Wesener
      Klaus Dirks as Lütt Heini
      Lothar Firmans as Van Diemen
      Jürgen Grundling as Jochen-Jürgen
      Friedrich Kühne as Kröger


      Production


      During 1952, as the government control over DEFA tightened, the studio produced only six films, all of them influenced by the Cold War and dedicated to the ideological struggle between capitalism and socialism. Anna Susanna was one of those. Although the film had a plot suiting the government's policy, the DEFA Board was very reluctant to allow Richard Nicolas, for whom the picture was his debut as a director, to make Anna Susanna. Nicolas had threatened to resign if he would not be allowed to direct it, and was eventually granted permission. The film was also noted for being one of the first DEFA pictures to employ primitive special effects, such as building a miniature ship model that was wrecked in an aquarium.


      Reception


      Heinz Kersten quoted an East German official who told that "the times in which pictures like Anna Susanna, that damaged the image of DEFA in the eyes of the people... should not return." The West German Catholic Film Service described it as "rather well-developed, thrilling crime film... but filled with typical criticism of the capitalist system."


      References




      External links


      Anna Susanna at IMDb
      Anna Susanna original poster on ostfilm.de.
      Anna Susanna on cinema.de.
      Anna Susanna on DEFA Foundation's website.
      Anna Susanna on PROGRESS' website.

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