12 means: I love you

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Movie
Original title 12 means: I love you
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Connie Walther
script Scarlett Kleint
production Cornelia Wecker
Norbert Sauer
music Rainer Oleak
camera Peter Nix
cut Sabine Brose
occupation

12 means: I love you is a German television film that premiered at the 41st Hof Film Festival in 2007 . The film is based on the drama Twelve is called 'I Love You'. The Stasi officer and the dissident of Regina Kaiser and Uwe Karlstedt. The former Stasi officer Uwe Karlstedt and the dissident Regina Kaiser describe what they say is a true story. The book was filmed in 2007 under the direction of Connie Walther .

The film, whose plot extends from the 1980s to the 21st century, is about Bettina, played by the German actress Claudia Michelsen . Bettina was arrested in the GDR in 1985 for forbidden contacts with the West and interrogated for months. The other leading role is played by Devid Striesow as interrogator Jan.

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Dresden , 1985. Bettina and her husband wake up in shock when they are arrested for illegal contacts with the West. Eight months sitting Bettina in custody and being interrogated daily by a young interrogator named Jan. Jan is the only person who communicates with Bettina during this difficult time. Both fall in love, but both also know that this love is impossible. At the last meeting as part of the investigation, Jan reveals his feelings towards Bettina and she reveals her numerical code to him - 11: You are beautiful (= 11 letters), 12: I love you. Bettina is taken to the Hoheneck women's prison for three years and two months and then deported to the West.

Meanwhile, Jan continues to work at the Ministry of State Security until the GDR is dissolved.

12 years after this event, Bettina leads tourists and other visitors through the former Stasi prison, which has been converted into a memorial over time, and introduces them to the situation at that time. She hasn't forgotten Jan and gets in touch with him. At first he denies himself, but then they meet again. It becomes clear to both of them that their love can still be felt even after 12 years. But Bettina has a boyfriend, Jan is also married and has a daughter. After getting to know each other in depth under different conditions, both of them give up their partnerships and Jan also gives up his house to start over. In 1997 they separated from their partner and moved in together. Bettina loses her job at the memorial because she is no longer sustainable. In 2006 Jan and Bettina get married. Bettina's ex-partner is best man.

criticism

Many critics consider the book and especially the film to be unreliable. For example Hubertus Knabe , the former director of the Stasi victims' memorial in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen , who points out that there is no evidence for the truth of the story and that Regina Kaiser did not mention an affection for Uwe Karlstedt in an interview with contemporary witnesses in the early 1990s.

GDR victims' associations saw the film downplaying the state security. The director Connie Walther criticized the fact that the criticism was expressed without having seen the film.

The Lexicon of the International Film said: “A German-German love story that is not prevented from unfolding by geographical and ideological borders. A very brittle, acting excellent (television) film. "

In a review of the film in Der Spiegel it is said that "in this quiet, grueling, romance-free drama, despite its risky approach to the perpetrator as a person, relativism was never practiced"

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  1. ↑ 12 means: I love you at archiv.hofer-filmtage.de , accessed on April 16, 2016
  2. ↑ 12 means: I love you from Dieter Wunderlich , accessed on July 10, 2012
  3. ↑ ARD TV film: Amour fou in the Stasiknast on Netzeitung from April 16, 2008 ( Memento from July 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 10, 2012
  4. ↑ Christian Buß : ARD Stasi Drama: Beloved Sniffer Pig. In: Spiegel Online. April 15, 2008, accessed January 6, 2016 .