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A biopic about an outstanding North German personality who became a symbol for the glamour and hubris of the years of Germany’s post-war economic miracle. In the 1950s the name Borgward (Thomas Thieme) stood for Germany’s economic resurgence as a nation of car-makers. The model Isabella was the first saloon car for average earners and today has cult status. But in 1961 the car company from Bremen unexpectedly went bankrupt. It was the first failure in the success story of the young West German republic. The film covers the dramatic weeks and months of the Borgward insolvency, triggered by a story in Spiegel magazine which caused shareholders to go on the warpath. What really happened behind the scenery at Borgward?
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Die Affäre Borgward
Fiction Feature
German
Televisionen | FF2018
Germany
2018
90 min
OV
Marcus O. Rosenmüller
Marcus O. Rosenmüller
Thomas Thieme, August Zirner, Bruno Eyron, Barbara Philipp, Anna Lena Schwing, Franziska Mencz, Jens Schäfer, Jürgen Heinrich, Oliver Bootz, André Mann u.v.a. Kostümbild: Majie Pötschke
Dagmar Rosenbauer
Stefan Spreer
Claudia Klook
Martin Stock
Wolfgang Arens
Eric Friedler, Silke Schütze
Cinecentrum für ARD/NDR gefördert von der nordmedia
Sarah Kristin Richter, NDR / Dokumentarfilm, Dokudrama & Sonderprojekte: s.richter@ndr.de