Anna Susanna

Anna Susanna is an East German drama film directed by Richard Nicolas. It was released in 1953.

During 1952, as the government control over DEFA tightened, the studio produced only six films, all of them influenced by the Cold War and dedicated to the ideological struggle between capitalism and socialism. Anna Susanna was one of those. Although the film had a plot suiting the governments policy, the DEFA Board was very reluctant to allow Richard Nicolas, for whom the picture was his debut as a director, to make Anna Susanna. Nicolas had threatened to resign if he would not be allowed to direct it, and was eventually granted permission. The film was also noted for being one of the first DEFA pictures to employ primitive special effects, such as building a miniature ship model that was wrecked in an aquarium.Heinz Kersten quoted an East German official who told that the times in which pictures like Anna Susanna, that damaged the image of DEFA in the eyes of the people... should not return. The West German Catholic Film Service described it as rather welldeveloped, thrilling crime film... but filled with typical criticism of the capitalist system. ........

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