Special Mission
Im Sonderauftrag Englishlanguage title Special Mission is an East German blackandwhite film directed by Heinz Thiel. It was released in 1959.
Of the 500 feature films created by DEFA from 1956, the year in which the National Peoples Army was founded, until its dismantlement during 1990, only five had their plot dealing explicitly with the East German armed forces although many pictures were set in historical military formations, like the Wehrmacht, and DEFA produced many documentaries and news bulletins about the NVA. Of the five films, the first to be made was Im Sonderauftrag. It was also the only one among them to portray the Peoples Navy.The East German Cinema and Television Review defined Im Sonderauftrag as a weak, fablebased film that used the antifascist theme in a schematic manner. The film was received well in the Soviet Union, and gained considerable success there. The German Film Lexicon cited Im Sonderauftrag as thrilling and with good acting, although highly simplistic and committed to the political narrative of the Cold War. ........
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