52 weeks are a year
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 52 weeks are a year |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Groschopp |
| script |
Jurij Brězan , Richard Groschopp |
| production | DEFA studio for feature films |
| music | Hans Hendrik Wehding |
| camera |
Joachim Hasler , Erich Gusko |
| cut | Waltraud von Zehmen-Heinicke |
| occupation | |
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52 weeks are a year is a DDR -Kinofilm the DEFA of Richard Groschopp back to 1955. The story tells the story of a Sorbian small farmers, whose court one in the early 1950s, part agricultural cooperative is. It was based on the novel of the same name by Jurij Brězan from 1953.
action
The 64-year-old Sorbian farm worker Krestan Serbin owns a small field, a few pigs and a cow. His wish is that his daughter Lena will take over the farm later. He refuses to integrate the company into the agricultural production cooperative (LPG), although he is not fundamentally opposed to the new policy. When Lena makes it unmistakably clear to him that she has no interest in the inheritance, Krestan changes his attitude and joins the LPG. Here he works as a role model for all young people and his family.
background
"52 weeks are a year" was one of the few exceptions in which the Sorbian ethnic group found importance in GDR cinema:
“After 1945 some short films were made by DEFA: 'When Jan and Lenka make a wedding' , 'Rockenstock' and 'Zamperstrauss, Hexennacht and May dance' . The GDR's weekly cinema newsreel , Der Augenzeuge , reported, among other things, on President Pieck's visit to Lusatia. Jurij Brězan's village story '52 Weeks are a Year ' was the first feature film with a Sorbian theme, but remained striking and without any major response. "
Production and publication
Ilse Langosch worked as a dramaturge . The singing came from the State Ensemble for Sorbian Folk Culture under the direction of Jurij Winar .
52 weeks is a year was shot as a black and white film in the Babelsberg studio and in the vicinity of Bautzen . Gerhard Helwig and Hermann Asmus created the buildings, Hans-Joachim Schoeppe was production manager.
The film had its cinema premiere on November 17, 1955 in the Berlin cinemas Babylon and DEFA-Filmtheater Kastanienallee . It was first broadcast on German television on December 2, 1955.
criticism
In the New Age , Me remarked:
“The good thing about this DEFA production film [on the other hand] is that it does not exhaust itself in generalities and dozen pieces of wisdom, that it finds a way to let its message grow out of the situations and dialogues, that it uses a language that is popular and is understandable, poetic and far from platitudes. "
The Lexicon of International Films writes:
"One of the first East German feature films about collectivization in agriculture, formally staid, acting of some interest."
literature
- “Jurij Brezan 52 weeks is a year” , Volk und Welt publishing house , Berlin, 1953
- "Lexicon of International Films" , Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek, 1995, ISBN 978-3-499-16357-9 (page 6740)
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 718-719 .
Web links
- 52 weeks make a year in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 52 weeks are a year at filmportal.de
- symposium-filmerbe.de on the existence of Sorbian films
- Movie poster on flimmerkiste.de
- 52 weeks are a year at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ stiftung.sorben.com (pdf), p. 43
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 582
- ↑ Neue Zeit of November 26th, p. 4
- ↑ 52 weeks are a year. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 18, 2018 .