CEHENNEMDE BİR MELEK: ARTUR BRAUNER VE BİR ALMAN OSKAR-SCHINDLER-BİYOGRAFİK FİLM YARATMA GİRİŞİMİ

Year 2018, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 45 - 80, 11.05.2018

Peter Krämer

https://doi.org/10.32001/sinecine.422296

Abstract

Film Çalışmaları yalnızca tamamlanmış film projeleri ile ilgilenme eğiliminde olup yönetmenlerin işlerine özel önem atfeder, bu yüzden film yapma denemelerinin büyük çoğunluğunun başarısız olduğu gerçeğini göz ardı ederek film projelerinin gerçekleştirilmesinde senaryo yazarları ve yapımcıların merkezi rolünü marjinalize eder. Bu makale, bu eğilime karşı koymak için savaş sonrası (Batı) Almanya’nın önde gelen yapımcılarından Artur Brauner’in başarısız olan, 1970’ler ve 1990’ların başı arasındaki Oskar Schindler hakkında bir biyografik film yapma girişimini incelemektedir. Yapımcı olarak kariyeri anaakım eğlence filmleri ile 3. Reich ve özellikle Holokost ile ilgili filmlerin birleşiminden oluşan Brauner, tıpkı Schindler tarafından kurtarılan Yahudi işçiler gibi Polonya’da Holokosttan sağ kurtulan bir Yahudidir. Bu çalışma, onun Schindler biyografik filminin yapımcısı olarak -senaryo geliştirme ve finansmandan yönetmen ve oyuncularla pazarlıklara kadar- eylemlerinin tamamını inceler, uluslararası boyutunu (Fransa, Birleşik Krallık, İsrail, Birleşik Devletler, Polonya ve Sovyetler Birliği’nden eleman ve ortak yapımcıların dahil oluşları üzerinden) aydınlatır ve (Batı) Alman fonlama kuruluşlarının bu projeyi desteklemeyi reddedişini araştırır.

Keywords

Artur Brauner, Oskar Schindler, gerçekleşmemiş film projeleri, yapımcılar, film fonlama

AN ANGEL IN HELL: ARTUR BRAUNER AND THE ATTEMPT TO MAKE A GERMAN OSKAR- SCHINDLER-BIOPIC

Abstract

Film Studies tends to deal only with film projects that have been completed and pays particular attention to the work of directors, thus largely ignoring the fact that the vast majority of attempts to make movies fail, and marginalising the crucial role played by scriptwriters and producers in the initiation and development of film projects. To counter this tendency, this essay examines the unsuccessful attempt, between the 1970s and the early 1990s, of Artur Brauner, one of the leading producers in postwar (West) Germany, to make a biopic about Oskar Schindler. Like the Jewish workers rescued by Schindler, Brauner is a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland whose career as a producer has combined mainstream entertainment movies with films about the Third Reich and especially about the Holocaust. The essay explores the full range of his activities as a producer on the Schindler biopic – ranging from script development and financing to negotiations with actors and directors; highlights their transnational dimensions (through the involvement of personnel and co- production partners from France, the UK, Israel, the US, Poland, and the Soviet Union); and explores the refusal of (West) German funding bodies to support this project.

Keywords

Artur Brauner, Oskar Schindler, unrealised film projects, pro- ducers, film funding

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