Until Death Do You Part (1979)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Until death do you part |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 96 minutes |
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| Director | Heiner Carow |
| script | Heiner Carow, Günther Rücker |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Peter Gotthardt |
| camera | Jürgen Brauer |
| cut | Evelyn Carow |
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Until death do you part is a GDR feature film from 1979 produced by the DEFA studio for feature films, group “Babelsberg” . Günther Rücker and director Heiner Carow wrote the script about the story of a young marriage in socialist Germany based on an authentic case. The film was seen by around 850,000 moviegoers at the time, but only moderately, despite the star cast, received and discussed controversially.
action
Sonja and Jens are a young couple. The 20-year-olds in love get married quickly and enjoy their young happiness. Everything is going according to plan. Sonja becomes pregnant and with the child her marriage begins to run into trouble. Jens earns enough money as a construction worker to make ends meet with the small family, but does not want Sonja to put the child in the crèche and earn money . He sees the young woman as a loyal mother who cares exclusively for the child, as he himself experienced too little affection as a child because of his working mother. Sonja refuses these ideas and secretly begins to educate herself. When Jens notices this, he becomes violent towards Sonja. The marriage develops into a horror scenario for Sonja and Jens, who also starts to drink . When Jens accidentally drinks from a mineral water bottle that contains cleaning agents, Sonja, who knows about the contents of the bottle, does not prevent him. However, her conscience weighs heavily on her and she wants to face the police, which her friend Tilli prevents. At Tilli's wedding, she finally can't stand the pressure any longer and confesses to the guests present that she knowingly allowed Jens to be poisoned. The guests react with horror, but Jens stands protectively in front of his wife. A second chance seems possible.
background
The film Until death do you part is the debut film by the young actress Katrin Saß.
Production design: The production designer Harry Leupold proposed a former corner shop in Dimitroff-Straße (today Danziger Straße ) / Lychener Straße in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg as the main location. a. to establish the visual and technical connection to road traffic.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : A sometimes garishly staged, dramaturgically but skillfully structured marriage conflict film by DEFA, which takes the official phrases of general happiness in socialist society ad absurdum.
- Der Tagesspiegel , Berlin, 1979: Here a contemporary GDR issue is dealt with uncompromisingly, conflicts are fully played out and polemical features are unmistakable.
Awards
- "Valuable" rating
- 1980: Film award from the youth magazine “New Life” for 1979
- 1980: National Feature Film Festival of the GDR : Prize for “Best Screenplay” to Günther Rücker
Web links
- Till death do you part in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Until death do you part at filmportal.de
- Until death do you part at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Until death do you part. In: mdr.de. September 26, 2006, archived from the original on October 5, 2006 ; Retrieved November 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Until death do you part. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 23, 2018 .
- ↑ cf. Until death do you part. In: film.at. Retrieved November 3, 2014 .