Special characteristics: none (1956)

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Movie
Original title Special features: none
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Joachim Kunert
script Berta Waterstradt
production DEFA
music Heinz year
camera Erwin Anders
cut Hildegard Conrad
occupation

Special features: none is a German DEFA feature film by Joachim Kunert from 1956 based on the radio play of the same name by screenwriter Berta Waterstradt from 1954.

action

Gerda Krause's parents own a tobacco shop in Berlin. Her husband and her best friend's husband are serving as a soldier in the German Wehrmacht at the front. During the war she had two children. Her husband falls towards the end of the war. In the difficult years of the post-war period she therefore bears the burden of looking after herself and her two children alone. She shares the fate of many women in ruins and later finds work as a seamstress in a factory. She falls in love with her lodger Werner Schneider, a homeless former soldier who gets along well with the children. But when he receives a message from his previously missing wife, Gerda and Werner agree that he will return to her.

In the sewing shop, Zimmermann, the head of the department, who makes no secret of his affection for Gerda, wants to send her to teacher's studies, but she refuses. It was only when she met Uschi, who she regularly helped with schoolwork before the war, that her old desire to become a teacher emerged again. She also finds support from her new lodger, the teacher Fräulein Grethmann. Now she is going to study, which she successfully completes. After a few teething problems, Gerda and Zimmermann finally get together.

production

The black and white film Special features: none premiered on International Women's Day , March 8, 1956 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin and in the DEFA cinema in Berlin's Kastanienallee. The first performance on German television took place on March 22, 1956.

Striking locations in Berlin were Alexanderplatz , Rosenthaler Platz , the Komische Oper Berlin and the Institute for Teacher Training in Berlin-Köpenick.

criticism

The Berliner Zeitung wrote about the film:

“It's a narration in dialogues. So the film has not become a dramatic work in which players and opponents drive the plot to the point of conflict, but rather a sequence of scenes in which individual scenes show signs of a dramatic fable, but in which there are actually no particular characteristics. Berta Waterstradt's radio play of the same name has turned into a film, with strong, moving parts, but also with stretches that seem unimportant because they are so little new and so very general. "

Horst Knietzsch said in Neue Deutschland as follows:

“She (Berta Waterstradt) shows her main heroine only superficially, mostly in everyday, ordinary situations that lack the power to make a statement. The author's intention was praiseworthy, but the art of film demands strong conflicts: it doesn't work without her. Smooth characters arouse interest at best, but no strong compassion, no strong sympathy. The film contains a number of quite impressive scenes, but it is not the scene that determines the value of a work of art. "

The lexicon of international film is of the opinion that the narrative power of the film is only "diminished by its didactic finale."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 8, 1956, p. 3
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 11, 1956, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Special features: none. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used