Asta, my angel

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Movie
Original title Asta, my angel
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1981
length 99 minutes
Rod
Director Roland Oehme
script Roland Oehme
production DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
camera Jürgen Lenz
cut Helga Emmrich
occupation

Asta, mein Engelchen is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Roland Oehme from 1981.

action

Two days before the completion of the shooting of his latest film, Hermann Gschwinder falls off the ladder and breaks his leg. By chance, the director Frank Steiner discovered a certain similarity between the porter of the DEFA studios Otto Gratznick and the main actor in the film. To check this more closely, he has the few distinguishing features balanced out by a make-up artist, then drives to Gschwinder's hospital with Otto. The two people can hardly be distinguished and Otto receives a contract for the rest of the shooting. So the film is saved.

While he is taking the train home, Otto meets a lady who suspects him to be the actor and tells her that she bears a resemblance to Asta Nielsen . Since she does not know them, he explains to her that Asta was the most incomparable and wonderful woman in the world who has ever lived. Otto Gratznick is a very big admirer of her and can't get enough of her films. Back at home, again without make-up or toupee , he goes to the restaurant in his house to have another beer. In the conversation with the landlord Schorsch, they talk about marriage and discover that Otto should marry again. Together with the staff member of the Meyer-Tassow torsion bar, who is also single, he goes to a bar to possibly get to know a woman, which does not succeed. Now Otto comes up with the idea that a newspaper advertisement would be the easiest option, so he places an advertisement in which the only requirement is that the applicant should have black hair and a pony .

Otto is surprised at how many answers he gets and makes an appointment with one of the ladies in Sanssouci Park . Because he gets the advice, he memorizes everything that has to do with the park before the date. When they meet, he immediately recognizes the fellow passengers, whom he only recently met on the train, only today she has the black hair and bangs he wanted. Only she didn't recognize him because Otto was disguised as Hermann Gschwinder on the train. All day they walk through the grounds, here Otto can show what kind of general knowledge he has, then they take a tour of the castle and in the evening go to a pub. It looks pretty good with both of them until Astrid, that's the woman's name, comes back from the toilet and Otto sits in the chair and sleeps. This disappoints her so much that she pays and leaves without waking Otto.

Since Otto has already fallen in love with Astrid, who works as a saleswoman in a bakery, he now wants to try to win her over as an actor Gschwinder. In this disguise he shows up in her shop and invites her to a bar for a nice evening. The initial problems with dancing disappear when Otto starts to dance the tango. There is still a problem with the choice of dishes, because the desired oysters are not in stock because they are rarely asked for, so Otto orders two Chateaubriand for both , which the waiter notes with a bit of astonishment. When the emcee discovered the alleged actor in the audience, he asked them to sing one of his famous Brecht songs. But since Otto cannot do this, he limits himself to kitchen songs , with which he achieved great success.

Astrid and Otto, slightly drunk, take a taxi and the driver also knows the address of the actor, who is still in the hospital. With a Dietrich both come to the apartment and sleep after drinking a bottle of champagne immediately. The next morning, Mrs. Gschwinder comes home from a guest performance and is happy that her husband, at least she thinks, is so healthy again. However, she becomes angry when she sees the strange woman in her apartment. Astrid disappears and Otto, still drunk, is picked up by the police in front of the television tower and taken to the actor's apartment. The real husband has meanwhile arrived here and Otto's appearance prevents a major marital crisis.

Now the last scene is being shot in the film studios and Otto wants to leave the studio. Here he slips on a carelessly thrown banana peel and breaks his leg as well. Together with Gschwinder, he drives to the bakery in an ambulance, where they can both clear up the story. Otto asks for Astrid's hand and nothing stands in the way of the wedding.

Production and publication

Asta, mein Engelchen was filmed by the artistic work group “Roter Kreis” on ORWO color and had its world premiere on May 14, 1981 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . The film was shown for the first time on December 12, 1982 in the second program on GDR television .

Manfred Wolter was responsible for the scenario and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Christel Gräf .

criticism

Günter Sobe wrote in the Berliner Zeitung :

“It's dragging on. Why? Perhaps because it is not infrequently devised comedy that wants to work here, because the sequences often appear to be constructed together. Did director Roland Oehme have the opportunity to counteract this? I mean yes. Just through tighter staging, which could have turned the 98-minute film into an 85-minute film; by increasing the tempos, a consistently lively mood should have been created. "

Helmut Ullrich ends his criticism in the Neue Zeit with two sentences:

“And what do you learn from this film? Cinema is just something beautiful. "

In the new Germany some criticisms begin for Hernryk Goldberg already in the book:

“There are a lot of amusing irrelevancies, but they acquire a certain independence and cannot always credibly assert their compelling reference to the fable. Wolter tells the story with episodic expansiveness, and fatigue is inevitable. The frequent quotes from Asta-Nielsen films are a treat for cineastes, in my opinion the rhythm of the actual film - as well as the text overlay as an artistic reminder of the silent film era - are a little upset. "

The lexicon of international films writes that the film is an intelligent, but low-tension comedy.

Awards

  • 1982: Critics' Prize of the Theory and Criticism section of the Association of Film and Television Creators in the GDR: Best DEFA film in a comic genre of 1981
  • 1983: VI. International Biennial for Humor and Satire in Gabrovo ( Bulgaria ): Award for the best film director

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 15, 1981, p. 7
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of May 15, 1981, p. 4
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 16, 1981, p. 4
  4. ↑ Asta, my angel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 21, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used