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„Das Boot Ist Voll“ („The Boat is Full“ 1981) by Markus Imhoof “The Boat is Full” – AWARDS CONTENTS: - Film Festival Berlin: Silver Bear (best script and best direction of actors), 1981 Short Summary / Summary 2 - Price of the International Film Press Organisation (FIPRESCI), 1981 A Short History of the Hitler refugees in Switzerland 3 - Price of the International Committee for the Distribution of Arts and The Reception History of „The Boat is Full“ 5 Literature by Film, 1981 History, Restoration and Reconstruction 8 - Price of the International Catholic Film Offi ce, 1981 Memoriav 10 Cast/ Team/ Technical Specifi cations 12 - Otto Dibelus Award: Price of the International Protestant Film Jury, 1981 Biographies: - Quality Premium of the Swiss Department for Internal Affairs, 1981 Markus Imhoof 13 - Film Price of the City of Zürich, 1981 Tina Engel 14 - Price of the Foundation ALIZA (remembering the victims of the attempt of Curt Boir October 3 in 1980, Copernic street), 1981 Renate Steiger - Big Price of the 10th Human Rights Festival in Strassburg, 1981 Mathias Gnädinger 15 George Reinhart - Festival of Historical Films: Golden Eagle, 1981 Awards 16 - Price of the Evangelical Jury, Berlin, 1981 - Price René Clair – David di Donatello, Rom, 1982 - David Wark Griffi th Award (National Council of Film Critics in New York), 1982 - New York: Cristopher Award for direction and script, 1982 - Nomination for an Academy Award for the best foreign fi lm, 1982 Press pictures at : www.markus-imhoof.ch (data-fi le in tif-format) 16 1 SHORT SUMMARY MATHIAS GNÄDINGER GEORGE REINHART (1942–1997) A hotchpotch group of refugees secretly manages to cross the border into Switzerland Born 1941 in Ramsen. After an apprentice- Born 1942 in New York, Gymnasium (high during World War II. They cannot know that refugees «on race grounds alone» have no ship and two years of work as a typesetter, school) in Winterthur, beginning of the right for asylum. Accepted half-heartedly by the Swiss and then half betrayed, they are even student at the Bühnenstudio in Zürich. En- friendship with Markus Imhoof. Studies prepared to give themselves up in order to survive. They pose as a grotesque family in order gagements (among others): Theater am Neu- Law and Economy in Zürich, Fotoschool in to meet the immigration authorities‘ exemption conditions, but the act only succeeds for a markt Zürich, Bühnen der Freien Hansestadt New York. Works for the Volkart brothers, short, deceptive time.This is fi nally the truth about the Swiss being partially responsible for Bremen, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Schauspiel- the business-house of his family, in Mexico the death of over 30’000 people. haus Zürich, Schaubühne Berlin. and Brazil, returns to Siwtzerland in 1976 and founds the Limbo Film AG together FILMS (Selection) -Spital in Angst, Michael Steiner, 2001, TV with Markus Imhoof. Later he founds the -Im Namen der Gerechtigkeit, Stefan Jäger, companies Xanadu Film, Metropolis Film 2001, TV (Production and World Sales), Pierre Grise THE BOAT IS FULL -Lieber Brad, Lutz Konermann, 2000, TV Production, Paris, and takes over the Rialto -Komiker, Markus Imboden, 1999 Film Distribution in Zürich. Founder und -WerAngstWolf, Clemens Klopfenstein, 2000 A group of persecution victims have managed a dangerous escape into Switzerland in the -Freischütz, Ildiko Enyedi, 1994 donor of the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Died Second World War. They include: Judith, a young Jewess (whose husband has been in a Swiss -Joe & Marie, Tania Stöcklin, 1994 1997 in Zürich. refugee camp for some time), her brother Olaf, the grey-haired Ostrowskij with Gitty his -Tschäss, Daniel Helfer, 1994 -Der grüne Heinrich, Thomas Koerfer, 1994 FILMS (Selection) granddaughter, the French orphan Maurice and a German deserter. -Justiz, Hans W. Geissendörfer, 1993 -Jeanne la Pucelle, Jacques Rivette, 1993 -Kinder der Landstrasse, Urs Egger, 1992 -La chasse aux Papillons, Otar Iosseliani, 1992 In the morning they are discovered exhausted in a vegetable garden. Anna Fliickiger takes -Reise der Hoffnung, Xavier Koller, 1990 -La demoiselle sauvage, Léa Pool, 1991 them into the house but Franz, her husband, has already alerted the police. Franz sees the -Der Berg, Markus Imhoof, 1990 -La Belle Noiseuse, Jacques Rivette, 1991 look of desperation on the strangers’ faces too late. -Bingo, Markus Imboden, 1989 -Nuit & Jour, Chantal Akerman, 1991 -Leo Sonnyboy, Rolf Lyssy, 1988 -Toto le héros, Jaco van Dormael, 1991 Hidden in the wash-house, the refugees wait for the police to come. Disguising their own -Gekauftes Glück, Urs Odermatt, 1988 -Adolf Dietrich, Friedrich Kappeler, 1990 -Du mich auch, Dany Levy, 1985 -Busters Bedroom, Rebecca Horn, 1990 personalities, they hurriedly try to form themselves into a family in order to fulfi ll the -Histoires d‘Amerique, Chantal Akerman, 1988 conditions for political refugee status. “Racial grounds” alone are not suffi cient: only women -Der Gemeindepräsident, Bernhard Giger, 1983 -A Corps Perdu, Lea Pool, 1988 with children under six years old are admitted - if they are lucky. -Das Boot ist voll, Markus Imhoof, 1981 -La Bande des Quatre, Jacques Rivette, 1988 -Der Chinese, Kurt Gloor, 1978, TV -Der Passagier – Welcome to Germany, Judith, who had hoped to fi nd her real husband again after two years’ separation, has to -Der Galgensteiger, Xavier Koller, 1978 Thomas Brasch, 1988 present the German soldier as her husband. Her brother plays the deserter and the French -Grauzone, Fredi M. Murer, 1977 -Le Moine et la sorcière, Suzanne Schiffman, 1987 fi ve-year-old, upon whom everything depends, is to act dumb, in order to avoid speaking a -Last Song, Dennis Berry, 1987 -Soigne ta droite, Jean Luc Godard, 1987 different language from that of his mother and father. AWARDS (Selection) Prix Walo, Sparte Schauspiel, 1996 -Die Reise, Markus Imhoof, 1986 -Mauvais Sang, Leos Carax, 1986 This role-playing is of no avail. Barely a soul in the village has the courage to stop the Hans Reinhart-Ring, 1996 Festival International du fi lm de -Candy Mountain, Robert Frank, 1986 policeman from expelling the foreigners. Some even fi nd his harshness acceptable, for the comédie, Vevey, Prix d’interprétation, 1990 -Golden 80ies, Chantal Akerman, 1985 more the refugees fi ght and the more desperate their attempt becomes to save their lives, the Zürcher Filmpreis, 1985 -Transatlantique, Ulrich Schlumpf, 1982 more alien they appear to the Swiss people. At Anna’s plea for sympathy, Franz wrests the -Das Boot ist voll, Markus Imhoof, 1981 refugees from the policeman on the way to the border. -Räume sind Hüllen, Lukas Strebel, 1981 But their hopes are short-lived. He spends the night in prison with them for attempting to aid their escape. Judith catches two hopeful glimpses of her husband again, before she, the old man and the little Gitty are forced across the border into the hands of their persecutors. 2 15 TINA ENGEL CURT BOIS (1901-1991) A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HITLER REFUGEES IN SWITZERLAND Born 1950 in Hannover. Student at the Uni- Born 1901 in Berlin. Actor since his child- In popular fi ction and fi lms, it has long been a truism that Switzerland stands for freedom, versity of Music and Drama Hannover. En- hood. Famous fi lm and stage actor in Berlin safety and democracy. In everything from Jean Renoir’s “Grand Illusion” to Rodgers and gagements (among others): Schauspielhaus in the 1920s and 1930s, especially as a come- Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” an escape to Switzerland has been the light at the end Zürich, Theater am Neumarkt Zürich, Schau- dian (Works with Erwin Piscator and Max of the tunnel, the one chance for sanctuary in an otherwise increasingly savage world. In actual bühne Berlin. Reinhardt). As an emigrant in Hollywood fact Switzerland, belying its centuries-old policy of social freedom and safety from persecution, small roles in a lot of american movies, for was anything but that for the refugees from Nazi Germany, particularly Jewish refugees. FILMS (Selection) instance as a pickpocket in «Casablanca». -Hiob, Christian Görlitz, 2001, TV Scared by the might of the German government, worried about what an infl ux of foreigners -Tatort - Kindstod, Claudia Garde, 2001, TV After his return to Berlin outstanding works -Vaters Tochter, Lutz Konermann, 2000, TV with Brecht and Kortner. would do to a not inconsiderable employment problem and more than a little anti-Semitic in -WerAngstWolf, Clemens Klopfenstein, 2000 many pockets, the Swiss government deliberately kept to a policy of “laissez-faire” attitudes -Und keiner weint mir nach, Joseph Vilsmaier, FILMS toward the rest of Europe. The result was scores upon scores of Europeans who were turned 1996 (Selection out of 300 fi lms) away at the border and sent back to their Nazi persecutors. -Mit verbundenen Augen, Marijan Vajada, 1995 -Der Himmel über Berlin, -Das Versprechen, Margarethe von Trotta, 1994 Wim Wenders, 1987 -Der Kinoerzähler, Bernhard Sinkel, 1993 -Gedächtnis, Bruno Ganz/ When Adolf Hitler took control of the German government in 1933 and quickly started -Das Boot ist voll, Markus Imhoof, 1981 Otto Sander, 1982 formulating laws excluding Jews, the Swiss government reacted to the stream of exiles by -Die Blechtrommel, Volker Schlöndorff, 1979 -Das Boot ist voll, Markus Imhoof, 1981 allowing them only a temporary entrance. In this manner over the next few years such celebrated -Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages, -Der Zauberberg, Ludwig Cremer, 1968 refugees as composers Ernest Bloch and Paul Hindemith, writers Bertholt Brecht, Erich Maria -Margarethe von Trotta, 1978 -Ganovenehre, Wolfgang Staudte, 1966 -Das Spukschloss im Spessart, Remarque and Thomas Mann, conductor Bruno Walter and fi lm director Max Ophuls entered Kurt Hoffmann, 1960 - and soon left Switzerland, bound in most cases for America. AWARDS (Selection) -Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti, German Film Award for Alberto Cavalcanti, 1956 «Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages», 1978 “We must defend ourselves with all the means at our command against the establishment of -Caught, Max Ophüls, 1949 ‘alien-thinking’ elements” was a common view at the time.