... and your love too
| Movie | |
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| Original title | ... and your love too |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 92 minutes |
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| Director | Frank Vogel |
| script | Paul Wiens |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Heinrich Greif" |
| music | Hans-Dieter Hosalla |
| camera | Günter Ost |
| cut | Ella Ensink |
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... and your love too is a German contemporary film by DEFA by Frank Vogel from 1962 . It was the GDR's first “wall film” that addressed the construction of the Berlin Wall .
action
Berlin on August 12, 1961: Ullrich Sittich, called "Ulli" by friends and "Budgie" by colleagues, works as an electrician in a light bulb factory in East Berlin . It is the birthday of his deceased foster mother, who took him in as a child after the death of his parents in 1945 and raised him together with her biological son Klaus. Klaus also lives in Berlin, works as a taxi driver in West Berlin and regularly plays the number lottery. He, too, wants to go to his mother's grave when Eva, the mail carrier, rings his doorbell. As part of a syndicate, Klaus has won over 100 marks and spontaneously invites young Eva for the evening. A little later he meets Ulli at his mother's grave. The two of them go to the meeting point and wait for Eva. Ulli is also taken with her and Eva dances with both brothers.
Around midnight they went to Ulli's apartment, drunk, because the radio amateur wanted to get in touch with his friend Alfredo in Cuba . However, Alfredo cannot be reached. After Ulli Eva sang a song, the doorbell suddenly rings. Ulli pretends to be needed at work and leaves. In reality, the construction of the Berlin Wall begins and Ulli, as a party group organizer, like many other workers, also has to go to the factory combat group . He suspects that Klaus will be hard hit by the new development, since he can no longer work in the West. He is relieved again, since he has tried in vain to get Klaus on the right track. During his service on the border with West Berlin, Ulli receives a visit from Alfredo from Cuba, who has come to Berlin for work. Together they sing the song Somos socialistas, pa'lante y pa'lante at the Oberbaumbrücke guard point .
Klaus loses his job, but doesn't even try to find a new job. One night he surprises Eva in her apartment and sleeps with her. Eva, who was previously unsure which of the two men she loved more, now chooses Klaus, whose research impresses her. Ulli has meanwhile decided in favor of Eva and separates from his girlfriend Margot. He realizes too late that Eva and Klaus are a couple. He tries in vain to forget Eva. Meanwhile he stands up for Klaus and gets him a job as a car mechanic in the repair shop of his company. Klaus, however, is dissatisfied, reacts more and more aggressively to Eva, with whom he lives, and finally beats her in an argument. She packs her things and moves back to her former landlady. The step is particularly difficult for her, as she is pregnant by Klaus, who knows nothing about it. She wants to tell Ulli about her pregnancy, especially since they both feel drawn to each other. However, when he enthusiastically told her on the day of the planned discussion that he was going to visit Cuba on business for six weeks, she tried in vain to hold him back. She reacts to his lack of understanding with rejection and leaves.
As a postman, Eva has to deliver a registered letter to Klaus one day: he and his syndicate in West Berlin won 5000 DM in the lottery, which his friends will keep for him “over there”. The urge to flee to the West is getting stronger for Klaus, especially since he could build an existence with the money. Meanwhile Eva wants to have the unwanted child aborted and goes to her former classmate Ilse, who works as a welfare worker. She wants to know who she can go to for an abortion, but Ilse refuses to answer. A little later, Klaus appears at Eva and makes it clear to her that he wants to flee to the West and take her with him. Eva tells him that he is pregnant with her and will not come with him. She throws him out of the apartment.
Some time later Ulli returns from Cuba. His first path leads him to Eva, who wants to confess to him that she is pregnant in the evening, but at first sight only refers to Klaus' escape plans. Ulli looks for Klaus, but finds the apartment abandoned. He finds him at night in the cemetery near the Berlin border where her mother was buried. There is a duel. When Klaus runs to the wall with a ladder, Ulli gives him away by shouting loudly. He also rushes after him and wants to pull him off the ladder. The border guards notice both of them and open fire. Ulli is hit in the shoulder and comes to the hospital. Klaus is arrested and sentenced to several years in prison.
Eva visits Ulli in the hospital and finally tells him about her pregnancy. Ulli reacts cautiously, but Eva makes it clear that she and Klaus do not have a future together. Although she visits Klaus in prison, she says that she will not wait for him. December has passed and New Year's Eve is breaking. Ulli has been discharged from the hospital and is celebrating New Year's Eve with colleagues. Shortly before the turn of the year, he went to Eva, who was celebrating alone with her landlady. He realized that he wanted to stay with her. The child will grow up in communism and that is the most important thing.
production
... and your love was also filmed in Berlin from 1961 - the locations included Rosenthaler Platz , Oberbaumbrücke, Volkspark am Weinberg with the Heinrich Heine monument , VEB Berliner Glühlampenwerk and post office N 54 - as well as in Cuba . The outdoor shots were finished at the beginning of March 1962, the studio shots ran until the end of March 1962. Werner Bergemann created the costumes, Werner Zieschang created the film construction .
When director Vogel and screenwriter Vienna initially wanted to make a film about a truck driver in both parts of Berlin, they adapted their film to the current events surrounding the construction of the Berlin Wall. Vienna was considered to be particularly true to the line, so that his script clearly emphasized the "building of the wall, which must be welcomed ...". The film, shot in black and white, was largely improvised. Although the rough plot was fixed, Vogel and Wiens planned to shoot the film parallel to the actual events surrounding the building of the wall and afterwards. The film story begins on August 12, 1961 and ends on January 1, 1962. Since numerous scenes with hidden cameras capture everyday life in Berlin, some critics drew parallels to the documentary character of Cinéma Vérité . At the same time, there was no specific script with dialogues for the exterior shots , some of which were created during the shoot. The film replaces dialogues over long stretches with the thoughts of the characters, which the actors speak into narrators as monologues . “You can see the actor's face, his facial expressions and hear his voice. He speaks what he thinks. However, it reminds a little of an absurdity, namely a pantomime that has to be explained ”, criticized Carl Andrießen in the Weltbühne .
... and your love also had its premiere on September 27, 1962 and was shown for the first time on September 13, 1963 on DFF 1 on GDR television. At the 1991 Berlinale the film was shown in a retrospective.
criticism
The GDR's contemporary critics praised the film as the “most essential contemporary film of the last DEFA years. The fact that it is a quiet, tender, very human film, a small everyday story, counts twice in our latitudes. "
For the service-movie was ... and your love and a "political-propaganda Romance; the first DEFA production to focus on building the wall. The formal references to Cinéma verité are interesting: documentary elements are cleverly combined with a more didactic game plot. "
In retrospect, other critics emphasized that the film lived “first and foremost from the documentary atmosphere of the summer of 1961 in East Berlin”: “The events between Eva, Klaus and Ulli are inserted into a fixed constellation and benefit from the charisma of the actors.” The development of the characters was again not psychologically justified and the monologues of the actors look in retrospect "sometimes exhausted and pompous", so the criticism.
Award
The film collective of ... and your love too , consisting of director Frank Vogel, cameraman Günter Ost, composer Hans-Dieter Hosalla and dramaturge Willi Brückner , was awarded the Heinrich Greif Prize 1st class on April 19, 1963 .
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 636-637 .
- Erika Richter: Between the construction of the wall and the deforestation, 1961 to 1965 . In: Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, pp. 164-167.
Web links
- ... and your love even in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ... and your love at filmportal.de too
- ... and your love at the DEFA Foundation too
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Rosemarie Rehahn : Three in one big city . In: Wochenpost , Berlin, March 17, 1962
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 636 .
- ↑ z. B. Ulrich Gregor in Filmkritik , No. 6, 1964; film service .
- ^ Carl Andrießen: Film Journal . In: Weltbühne , No. 43, 1962, pp. 1368-1369.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: cf. progress-film.de
- ↑ ... and your love too. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Erika Richter: Between the building of the wall and the clearing of the wall 1961 to 1965 . In: Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 167.
- ↑ See defa.de