Der Verleger (2001)
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Heiner Lauterbach, Susanna Simon, Sylvester Groth, Anica Dobra, Jürgen Hentsch, Lisa Martinek, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey
Publisher Axel Springer’s postwar story begins with the licensing of his first newspaper.
The story
Based on Michael Jürgs’s biography, the film sketches publisher Axel Springer’s life in snapshots, beginning in the early postwar period with the licensing of his first newspaper.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Based on Michael Jürgs’s biography, publisher Axel Springer’s life is sketched in a series of snapshots, from the early postwar period and the licensing of his first newspaper, through the launch of the Bild newspaper, the takeover of the Ullstein publishing house, his 1958 visit to Khrushchev in Moscow, the construction of his publishing company’s high-rise on Kochstraße in Berlin, the era of the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (APO), and the 1973 attack on his Hamburg publishing building, up to shortly after the suicide of his son, Axel Springer Jr., in January 1980.
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