Tankred Dorst
Writing
Known For
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NDR Talk Show
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
BBC2 Play of the Week
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Studio III - Aus Kunst und Wissenschaft
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Weimarer Salon
The pupil Rull rehearses the uprising at a grammar school in Bremen and tries to break through the authoritarian structures of his school. The result is a humorous protest movement that demands a democratic school form.
I’m an Elephant, Madame
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Mosch
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover. His eye soon rests on Dimmesdale, a young overwrought pastor. Enmity grows between the two men; Chillingworth applies psychological pressure, and the pastor begins to crack. A ship stops in Salem, and Hester sees it as a providential refuge for her daughter, herself, and her lover. But will Dimmesdale flee with her?
The Scarlet Letter
A film by german playwright Tankred Dorst about a case of incest in a rural community.
Eisenhans
The writer, the publisher, the just-famous poet, the once-famous film director, the dreaded critic, the educated dentist and the half-educated goldsmith are at home in the culture industry, they know their way around, and they have learned to be wary of each other and of themselves: what they have in common is a secret fear that one day they will no longer belong, that one day they will no longer be able to keep up.
Piggies
' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. Should he be brought to trial for collaborating with the Nazis? Or will the young partisan carry through his original plan to kill him?
Ice Age
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Dorothea Merz
Emma Morschel, known as Lämmchen, is expecting a child. So she marries her boyfriend, Johannes Pinneberg. The young marriage gets off to a rocky start: Lämmchen's parents, class-conscious workers, are opposed to their daughter marrying the lowly clerk.
Kleiner Mann, was nun?
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Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
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Polnischer Sommer
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Auf dem Chimborazo
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Die Kurve
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Merlin aneb Pustá zem
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Sand
A little village in Franconian Thuringia in the early 1930s. The family Falk belongs to the non-natives: The villagers treat them with suspicion due to their unconventional lifestyle and call them communists. One day, the young Polish man Kupka comes to their house. Film about the coming of nazism.