UFA-Dabei 926/1974 23.04.1974

1st Dortmund / Westfalenhalle: European Cup final: indoor handball: VfL Gummersbach - Mai moskau MM champagne advertising. A man falls. For Mai Moskau the fifth time penalty. The Russian team leaves the field of play. Rough fouls of the players from both teams. Gummbersbach in the White Jersey. Various shots of playing hard. Seven meter throws in ZL. Hansi Schmidt, no. 9 shoots various goals. Audience, rank sold out. A man in the audience with a beard and glasses. Gummersbach WINS 19:17. The VfL Gummersbach team the trophy. The Russian player, disappointed, left the Hall.

02. DDR: young people marching military training and youth education in the GDR with flags on the stage. FDJ girl playing flute, large, close. FDJ youth play other musical instruments. Two boys talk with pathos in microphones. Officials. Exercises and target practice of young people. Military men's chorus sings original sound. A GDR soldier speaks interview about military training in the GDR. Officials at the handball goals throwing. The male choir of the Russian military comrades.

03. Hamburg: Bank robbery: police in cover behind a police car. Commerzbank branch from the outside. Policemen with bullet-proof vests. A policeman takes position in the entrance of a bookstore, right next to the door of the Bank. Getaway car: a Ford shuts before the Bank. The driver of the fleeing car with raised hands in swimming trunks. In the window of the Bank hand signals. The getaway car is maneuvered closer to the door. Police officers with walkie-talkies in coverage. A bank employee sprays black spray bottles the rear and side Windows. Curious in the Windows of surrounding houses. A male hostage at the door of the Bank. He masked gangster with a police cap on his head in the door. The gangster throws the police hat in the air. Police shoots, original sound. A second camera shows details. The knife on the neck of the hostage. Still photographs show details. The hostage is injured. A passport of the slain gangsters. His name is Humberto Martin Gonzales. The dead man is carried away. He lies on his stomach on the stretcher. Ambulances take away hurt the hostage. Forensics. Action 0: Gun, knife, large and close. Hamburg Police President Dr. Günter Redding assessed the police use, o-ton: "I would say the basic concept of our actions has proved correct. This show, maybe, also the public comments. This basic concept that is to search for the decision on the places of the Act. The officials were also commissioned to cripple the offender in any case and to save the hostages, if necessary including the use of the firearm. As an alternative, it was Of course included in the considerations, that the offender with the vehicle after outside would come, when there had been no opportunity at all, to make an access. But that was really just a stopgap for but everything was ready for us. The neighbours were alerted, reaction commands, helicopter and anything else on the points which came into consideration, were ready. Of course, the individual studies are now shown that are here or because technical details to improve. In this work, we are now, it will take some time, until we have results to have. But I would like to stress the usage was correct in principle and we have no errors to improve on this basic concept."

Indoor handball / European Cup: VfL Gummersbach - Mai Moskau camera: Rühe, Rau, Jürgens military training and youth education in the GDR origin: DEFA, DEFA bank robbery Hamburg camera: fire Rühe, Jackson at the beginning and end of total length

In sports: Handball shocker threatened in the 15th minute to end the sporting spectacle with a scandal. In protest against the fifth time penalty left the team of Mai Moskau the playing field. The European Cup final in the indoor handball between Mai Moskau and VfL Gummersbach in the White Jersey was dominated by controversial decisions of referee Siebert/singer from East Germany and rough fouls of the players from both teams.
' A Schlacht' of the Soviet player Juri Klimov - and 'just terrible' referee Siebert called Anatoli Jewtuschenko, coach of the USSR and head of Mai Moskau play in the Dortmund Westfalenhalle, 'a uniquely hard man's game'.
Seven-meter throws were crucial to the game. With the number 9 on the back, the star of the team of the Gummersbach Hansi Schmidt has played and fought as concentrated as rarely before. More than half of all Gummersbacher goals he scored.
Throughout the game the Russians To try to compensate for the Gummersbacher leadership. 9:8 leads Gummersbach at the break.
Four minutes before the final whistle, Mai Moskau compensates for the 16:16. An extension of twice five minutes must bring the decision.
13,000 inspire the Gummersbach. 18:16, they extend their lead. A final foul drives the voltage to the boiling point. The Russians reduce to 18:17. But Gummersbach increased to 9:17 seconds before the final whistle.
VfL Gummersbach win the European Cup for the fourth time. The favored defending champions Mai Moskau disappointed left the Hall.

This policy: Soldier in the East German marches, parades, processions - the usual image Communist self - was in these days beyond the Elbe newly painted. East Germany celebrated the adoption of a new Youth Act and the 18th anniversary of its national people's army in the 25th year of existence with propaganda effort.
Military training as youth education, a subject that always return the media also in the GDR. As. We show an original report of the East German weekly news piece consumer reality.

This crime: after 4 seconds The end police go down, their cars blocking traffic on the stone dam, a commercial Street in the city of Hamburg: an armed criminals robbed a branch of the Commerzbank with ¡einem the fight of the police starts here at 12:24 alarm call to the radio operations centre of the Police Presidium with the offender. A battle that shows exemplary opportunities and risks of the police operation at a crime with hostage-taking.
Riot police, judicial police and officials of the mobile task forces make to the building. The criminal has in the Bank barricaded himself, after he shot dead an official of the first patrol car, the other injured who police push this car the Bank gang on the street. The first of the three officials refers to position in the entrance of a book store, right next to the bench. 14 h 26: a Ford rolls out front of the Bank. The offender has requested the car as getaway car. The driver may be wearing only a swimsuit. The car the offender not close enough is up to 50 centimetres must the policeman approached maneuver the door the car to the shop front.
15 h 25: a bank employee sprays back and side window of the car black on. Is now clear that the police leadership: the perpetrator must be overwhelmed when leaving the Bank. One of the hostages stands in front of the door. It's 15:44. He masked gangster with a police cap on his head in the door.
He pushes forth one other hostage before him. When he throws the hat in the air, the police shoots. The bank robber is dead. The hostage injured. A second camera shows details. In the hand of the gangsters left a knife on the neck of the hostage, in which the gun right.
Still photos show details: the knife on the neck of the hostage. The first shot is when the perpetrator takes back the gun from the left in the right hand.
The gangster is after the first shot.
A card tells you: Hubert Martin Gonzales, a 28 engineering student from Colombia, which has been performed not in the criminal files of the police, and No more can call the real motives of his act is the fatalities so far. The police has meanwhile cleared two important questions: is convinced that Gonzales has carried out the attack without accomplices, and that he and not the police violated the hostage during the fire battle.
Three days after the attack we asked Hamburg's police President, Dr. Günter Redding, how he evaluates the police operation: Dr. Redding: "I would say the basic concept of our actions has proved correct.
That show, also the public comments, guess the places the fact the decision to seek this basic concept that goes. The officials had to make also the job definitely cripple the offender and the hostages to rescue, emergency, including the use of the firearm.
As an alternative Of course included in the considerations, that the offender with the vehicle after outside would come, when there had been no opportunity at all, to make an access. But that was really just a stopgap for but everything was ready for us. The neighbours were alerted, it grab a command, helicopter and anything else on the points which came into consideration, were ready.
Of course, the individual studies are now shown that are here or because technical details to improve. In this work, we are now, it will take a time land until we have results to have. But I would like to stress the usage was correct in principle and we have no errors to improve on this basic concept."

Date of Release:

23.04.1974

Year of Production:

1974

Camera Work:

Brandes, Klaus; Jürgens; Rau, Kurt; Rühe, Bernd Michael

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

DEFA

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German