Title: Anna Seghers sieben romanverfilmungen; 1974 - 1988 /
Authors: Thiel, Wolfgang, 1947-; Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983
Year: 2015
Subjects: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.; Man-woman relationships; Women Germany Social conditions.; World War, 1939-1945 Germany Drama.; Fascists Germany Drama.; Young men Germany.; Military deserters.; Political violence; Self-preservation Drama.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Drama; Informers; National socialism; Germany History Drama.; Berlin (Germany); Germany Politics and government.
Abstract: As World War II grinds on and with her brothers serving in the German armies in Norway and Poland, Marta works the family's farm outside of Berlin. One evening while walking beside the lake that borders her property, Marta stumbles upon a deserter hiding in the boathouse. Marta's first response is to force him to leave, but Kurt stubbornly refuses. Realizing that he is harmless, Marta takes Kurt into her house and hides him the root cellar below her kitchen floor. Soon they begin to take their meals together while they listen to illicit radio broadcasts from London. As the weeks wear on and the Allied bombing raids of Berlin become more intense, the two lovers sit together on the edge of the lake and watch the bombs exploding on the horizon. (This is a description of "Das Schilfrohr" the first of seven stories by Anna Seghers that are part of this series).