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The Man with the Objective Lens (1961)
Directed by Frank Vogel
Comedy, Science Fiction · 1h 20m
A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").
Cast
Rolf Ludwig
OS alias Martin Marten
Helga Labudda
Anita
Christine Laszar
Maja Meyer
Erich Franz
Schmitt
M
Monika Hildebrandt
Heidi
M
Maika Joseph
Hertha
Erik S. Klein
Benno
G
Gertraud Kreissig
Hanna
Micaela Kreißler
Blöckchen
E
Eduard Kubat
Physikprofessor
A
Axel Müller
Otto
U
Uta-Maria Schütze
Hilde
Crew
- Director
- Frank Vogel
- Screenplay
- Paul Wiens
- Director of Photography
- Horst Hardt
- Original Music Composer
- Gerd Natschinski
- Editor
- Christa Wernicke
Details
- Original title
- Der Mann mit dem Objektiv
- Release date
- 1961-10-05
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy, Science Fiction
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany, East Germany
- Production
- DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme