But dad!

Movie
Original title	But dad!
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1974, 1978/1979
length	267 minutes
Rod
Director	Klaus Gendries
script	Hermann Rodigast Klaus Gendries
production	Anni von Zieten for DEFA on behalf of DDR television
music	Rudi Werion
camera	Eberhard Borkmann
cut	Vera Nowark
occupation
Erik S. Klein : Erwin Mai Ralf Lemcke : Karl-Jörg "Kalle" May Rolf Lemcke : Uwe “Kulle” May Marianne Wünscher : Aunt Elsbeth Jochen Thomas : Uncle Bruno Martin Trettau : Fred Bölling Helga Labudda : Monika Büttner Erich Petraschk : Father Büttner Ina Reuter : Fränze Janette Koos : Sophia Mai Susanne Düllmann : Fanny Stengel Heinz Rennhack : Harry Pohle Ewa Szykulska : Sibylle Schultze Volkmar Kleinert : Edgar Sander Hans Teuscher : colleague Buchholz Uwe Detlef Jessen : Ludwig Kneisel Angela Brunner : Beate Kneisel Maria Mallé : Ulla Lindig

But dad! is a four-part television comedy from the GDR from 1974 and 1978/1979.

action

The film is about the single father Erwin Mai and his twins Kalle and Kulle.

Erik S. Klein and the film's child actors at the FDGB art award ceremony in 1974

Erwin Mai is a widower and initially refuses to take the risk of a second marriage. However, he cannot cope with his two sons alone. His sister Elsbeth and her husband Bruno help him. But the few hours are not enough to drive out the twins' nonsense. Driven by boredom and ingenuity, the two of them keep thinking up pranks that the Mai family's neighbors also feel.

Erwin has to realize that he cannot bring his twins Kalle and Kulle to their senses on his own. And so he embarks on the adventure of finding a wife. On a business trip to Karl-Marx-Stadt, he meets Sybille on the train. Both get closer to each other quickly. But Erwin remains alone with his suitcases at the train station in Karl-Marx-Stadt, but his twins in Berlin meet Monika Büttner.

She lets the two of them ride a carousel for no money and both agree that she would be the right woman for the father. The fact that Monika still has a daughter Fränze doesn't seem to bother them at first. However, it still takes some conviction and tutoring from the two boys before their father starts dating Monika.

production

But dad! consists of four parts: dad does not want to get married , dad wants to marry , dad got married and 5 years after . The production design is by Hans-Jörg Mirr , the costumes were created by Maria Welzig . The film had its television premiere in the GDR on January 1, 1974 on DFF 1 . The premiere dates of the other parts were January 4th and 6th 1974. In 2010, Aber Vati! as part of the DDR TV Archive series from Icestorm on DVD.

Five years after the three-part series was broadcast, a film sequel was shot under the title But Vati - Five Years Later. The film premiered on GDR television on August 25, 1979. Hermann Rodigast and Klaus Gendries , who directed all four films, wrote the book and the screenplay together.

criticism

The film service called But Daddy! a “Lively comedy about a widower with twins who decides to remarry. [...] Cheerful television film. "

Web links

• But dad! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• But dad! at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ But dad! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .