At A French Fireside

At A French Fireside German An franzsischen Kaminen is an East German film directed by Kurt Maetzig. It was released in 1963.

The film was one of eight major DEFA pictures made between 1959 to 1964 that centered on the theme of the Cold War, with an underlying message that East Germany had to defend itself from the West. Director Kurt Maetzig told an interviewer that he greatly disliked the script he filmed, and the work on At A French Fireside eventually inspired him to make the controversial The Rabbit Is Me.The film was poorly received, and was not successful with the audiences. The German Film Lexicon defined At A French Fireside as a completely unbelievable piece of propaganda. Dagmar Schittly viewed it as a typical saboteur film, in the tradition of antiWestern DEFA thrillers. ........

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