Das Versprechen (1995)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.5/10   

Director:

Margarethe von Trotta

Escritores:

Peter Schneider (dialogue) and
Felice Laudadio (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 noviembre 1995 (USA)

Género:

Romance | Drama

Frase comercial:

Eine Liebe, eine Hoffnung, eine Mauer.

Plot:

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany...

Plot Keywords:

Father Son Relationship | Physicist | Berlin Wall | 1980s | Violence

Premios:

4 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

UNEASY POLITICAL DRAMA

Reparto

Corinna Harfouch	...	Sophie
Meret Becker	...	Young Sophie
August Zirner	...	Konrad
Walerij J. Alexeiew	...	Vlady
Anka Baier	...	Monika
Hark Bohm	...	Mueller
Noëlla Dussart	...	Helenka
Tina Engel	...	Sophie's Aunt
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Marco Bahr
Pierre Besson	...	Harald
Jens-Uwe Bogadtke
Thomas Cermak
Barbara Dittus
Matthias Engel
Rayk Gaida
Gilles Gaudis	...	Man in Court
Jean-Yves Gautier	...	Gerard
Franziska Geyer
Ruth Glöss	...	Konrad's grandmother
Christina Große
Monika Hansen	...	Sophie's Mother
Christine Harbort
Karin Heller
Christian Herschmann	...	Young Alexander
Horst Hiemer	...	Prison Director
Robert Hummel	...	Escape Aide
Christoph Jacobi
Dagmar Jaeger
Heike Jonca
Uwe Karpa
Waltraud Kramm	...	Guide (as Waltraut Kramm)
Karl Kranzkowski	...	1st Border Official
Hans Kremer	...	Harald
Udo Kroschwald	...	Young Mueller
Ulrike Krumbiegel	...	Elisabeth
Thomas Lawincky
Sven Lehmann	...	Max
Frank Lienert
Madeleine Lierck
Tilo Mandel
Andreas Mann	...	Party Secretary at School
Dieter Mann	...	Konrad's Father
Eva Mattes	...	Barbara
Joerg Meister	...	Alexander
Felix Moeller
Philippe Morier-Genoud	...	Rueblander
Johanna Neumann
Dino Nolting		(as Dirk D. Nolting)
Hagen Oechel	...	Army Instructor
Steffen Pietsch
Klaus Piontek	...	Sophie's Stepfather
Peter Planitzer
Rene Reinhardt
Bernd-Uwe Reppenhagen	...	Border Officer
Sebastian Reusse
Otto Sander	...	Professor Lorenz
Rene Schubert
Heiko Senst	...	Wolfgang
Steffen Steglich
Christian Tschirner	...	Uwe
Susanne Ugé	...	Young Barbara
Franz Viehmann	...	Stasi Man in Court
Christa Vogel
Gabriele Völsch	...	Studentin
Simone von Zglinicki	...	Konrad's mother
Wolfgang Winkler	...	Stasi Man at School
Anian Zollner	...	Young Konrad

También conocida como:

La promesse
Les années du mur
The Promise
La promesa (Argentina) [es]
La promesa, un amor, un muro, una esperanza (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for a scene of sex, and for language.

Duración:

Argentina:115 min | Germany:115 min | UK:116 min

País:

Alemania | France | Switzerland

Idioma:

Alemán

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Sonido:

Stereo

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12 | Germany:6 (bw) | Peru:14 | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Berlin, Germany

Compañía:

Bioskop Film

Citas:

Konrad: Can a woman love a man she has only seen three times in twenty years?

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Die Neugier immer weiter treiben (1995) (TV)

UNEASY POLITICAL DRAMA

In an interview at the time of the release of this film Margarete von Trotta rather bragged about the fact that this was the first German (after unification) film after the fall of the Berlin wall that dealt with the 28 years of history on the East side of the wall. This remains to be seen, but if so, is that a good reason to come up with this dim, tepid and obligatory romantic drama that is predictable from scene 1? A drama in which the viewer no cliche spared?

The film looks more a kaleidoscope of political events in which the two main characters just happened to be a part of. The film never is a real drama and lacks every dramatic tension. The two main characters are simply boring people (not helped much by the casting); all other characters are one-dimensional. Some bad writing is also present: some characters, like the aunt, simply disappear from the story. As to direction and filmmaking there are plenty of uneasy moments as well. In the Prague scene the girl waits on the wrong spot for her friend; well, they just wait, but then "pop" a short scene in which she asks where this or that place is and then "pop": yes, there he is! The scene of the father in hospital also just seems to come from nowhere.

It all looks like as Von Trotta really wanted to show how very, very concerned she was about the 28 years of history and by that overplaying her hand. She should either have elaborated the drama more, or have taken the trouble for a more thorough interpretation of the political situation. As it is now it is a "everything political happens to poor us" drama. (5/10)