Question 7

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Question 7

Directed by	Stuart Rosenberg
Produced by	Lothar Wolff
Written by	Allan Sloane
Starring	Michael Gwynn Margaret Jahnen
Music by	Hans-Martin Majewski
Cinematography	Günther Senftleben
Editing by	Georges Klotz
Distributed by	Louis De Rochemont Associates (USA)
Release dates	June 1961 September 28, 1961
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States West Germany
Language	English

Question 7 is a 1961 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Michael Gwynn, Margaret Jahnen and Christian de Bresson. It won the National Board of Review Award for Best Film. It was also entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

In post-war East Germany, Peter Gottfried is the son of minister Friedrich Gottfried. The Communist regime has decreed that all children of "dissidents" will be denied entry to a prestigious music conservatory. Peter is anxious to be accepted, and in order to get in he prepares to answer the seven questions required by the conservatory, the seventh of which will require him to deny his religious convictions. Before this can happen, he is invited by the Communist Party to perform at the Berlin Youth Festival. Friedrich protests, knowing that the Communists intend to use his son as a political pawn, to "prove" to the world that East Germany affords equal rights to clergymen. In the end, it is Peter himself who decides to quit the Festival and defect to the West.

Cast

Michael Gwynn as Friedrich Gottfried
Margaret Jahnen as Gerda Gottfried
Christian De Bresson as Peter Gottfried
Almut Eggert as Anneliese Zingler
Erik Schumann as Rolf Starke
Max Buchsbaum as Inspector Hermann
John Ruddock as Martin Kraus
Leo Bieber as Herr Rettmann
Fritz Wepper as Heinz Dehmert
Eduard Linkers as Otto Zingler
Marianne Schubarth as Marta Zingler
Philo Hauser as Barber
Rolf von Nauckhoff as Karl Marschall
Helmo Kindermann as Luedtke
Manfred Fuerst as Professor Steffl

References

↑ "IMDB.com: Awards for Question 7". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-01-24.

External links

Question 7 at the Internet Movie Database
Question 7 at allmovie

v t e Films directed by Stuart Rosenberg

1960s	Murder, Inc. (1960) Question 7 (1961) Cool Hand Luke (1967) The April Fools (1969)

1970s	Move (1970) WUSA (1970) Pocket Money (1972) The Laughing Policeman (1973) The Drowning Pool (1975) Voyage of the Damned (1976) Love and Bullets (1979) The Amityville Horror (1979)

1980s	Brubaker (1980) The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) Let's Get Harry (1986)

1990s	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)

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