Habermann (film)

Habermann (Czech: Habermannův mlýn) is a 2010 Czech-German-Austrian drama film directed by Juraj Herz. In the story, the lives of a German mill owner and his family in the Sudetenland are changed dramatically as Europe heats up in 1938. The movie is based on true events and is the first major motion picture to dramatize the expulsion of 3 million Germans from Czechoslovakia.

"Habermann's mill" redirects here. For Populated place in Šumperk District, see Habermannův mlýn and Habermannova vila.

Habermann
German poster
Directed byJuraj Herz
Written byJan Drbohlav
Juraj Herz
StarringMark Waschke
Hannah Herzsprung
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
Karel Roden
Franziska Weisz
Ben Becker
Andrej Hryc
Zuzana Kronerová
CinematographyAlexander Surkala
Production
company
Art Oko Film
KN Filmcompany
Entertainment Value Associates
Wega Film
Distributed byFarbfilm-Verleih
Release date
  • 6 October 2010 (2010-10-06) (German-Language Film Festival)
  • 4 November 2010 (2010-11-04) (Czech Republic)
CountryCzech Republic
Germany
Austria
LanguageCzech
German
Budget$ 3,200,000

Production

Juraj Hurz has made this statement in describing his film and his reasons for creating it:

These events happened more than sixty years ago, but their effects can be felt even today. If we want to understand the present, we have to know what happened in the past. The film starts with the expulsion: we know from the start how this story will end - there is no escape. Then we are shown the events that led up to it. The story of Habermann ends after the "expulsion" of the Germans from the Sudetenland area bordering Germany and Czechoslovakia in 1945, and remains today one of the darkest chapters in the relationship between Germans and Czechs. The atrocities perpetrated in the course of the expulsion are a taboo to this date. Many Czechs do not want to be reminded of it, many Germans insist that they have been wronged bitterly at the time and that nobody has ever had to pay for this. There is now a new young generation that wants information about the past.[1]

The script was created on the basis of a book by Josef Urban, based on the fate of the real Hubert Habermann, a miller from Bludov in North Moravia.[2]

Cast

References
  1. "Habermann (2010/2011)". Covering Media. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  2. "Juraj Herz dokončuje Habermannův mlýn, snímek o odsunu Němců po válce | Kultura". Lidovky.cz. 2009-09-06. Retrieved 2017-10-07.


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