The Rabbit Is Me

Book adaptation/Drama, GDR 1965

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The Rabbit Is Me was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. In it, a young student has an affair with a judge who once sentenced her brother for political reasons; she eventually confronts him with his opportunism and hypocrisy. It is a sardonic portrayal of the German Democratic Republic's judicial system and its social implications. The film was banned by officials as an anti-socialist, pessimistic and revisionist attack on the state. It henceforth lent its name to all the banned films of 1965, which became known as the "Rabbit Films." After its release in 1990, The Rabbit Is Me earned critical praise as one of the most important and courageous works ever made in East Germany. It was screened at The Museum of Modern Art in 2005 as part of the film series Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany.
110 min
HD
FSK 12
Audio language:
German

Awards

International Film Festival Locarno 1990 banned films of the 60s
International Film Festival Berlin 2012 "Happy Birthday, Studio Babelsberg"
selected from Museum of Modern Art New York 2005 DEFA-Retrospektive "Rebels with a cause"

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Director:

Kurt Maetzig

Template:

Manfred Bieler (Novel)

Editor:

Helga Krause

Cast:

Angelika Waller (Maria Morzeck)

Wolfgang Winkler (Dieter Morzeck)

Alfred Müller (Paul Deister)

Irma Münch (Gabriele Deister)

Hans Hardt-Hardtloff (Herbert Wolf)

Annemarie Esper (Edith)

Ilse Voigt (Aunt Hete)

Rudolf Ulrich (Grambow)

Willi Schrade (Ulli)

Original title:

Das Kaninchen bin ich

Original language:

German

Format:

4:3 HD, B/W

Age rating:

FSK 12

Audio language:

German