Chemistry and love

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Movie
Original title Chemistry and love
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1948
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Arthur Maria Rabenalt
script Frank Clifford ,
Marion Keller
production DEFA
music Theo Mackeben
camera Bruno Mondi
cut Alice Ludwig
occupation

Chemistry and love is the first science fiction film of the DEFA of 1948, directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt in black and white. The anti-capitalist comedy goes back to a play by the film theorist Béla Balázs . Hans Nielsen , Tilly Lauenstein and Ralph Lothar are cast in the leading roles .

action

After the war, human nutrition is an immediate problem. The chemist Dr. Alland has made a sensational invention: He can convert the vegetable raw material - grass or moss - directly into butter, without the need for cows that produce milk first. Several pretty women approach the inventor in order to land this profitable innovation for their company. After some trials and tribulations, Dr. Alland, that all these ladies are only interested in money and not in him, realizes his true love in his assistant and leaves the country.

background

The film was made in the Berlin-Johannisthal studio with exterior shots of the outdoor area there. Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz were responsible for the buildings . The fictional country in which the action takes place bears the meaningful name "Kapitalia".

Later DEFA productions in the SF division are The Silent Star from 1960, Signals - A Space Adventure from 1970, Eolomea from 1972 and In the Dust of the Stars from 1976.

criticism

Filmreporter.de stated : Chemistry and love show "satirically the weaknesses and mistakes of the capitalist system, its excesses and degeneracy". Rabenalt Film was considered a "utopian fairy tale" at the time. "Playfully" shows the comedy "the surrealism in the work of the American writer Thornton Wilder and the French playwright Jean Anouilh" and makes use of "critical irony".

"... a clumsy capitalism grotesque about making butter out of grass ..."

"A brisk anti-capitalist tabloid in the style of screwball comedy."

"The whole thing is an over-the-top, grotesque anti-capitalism comedy ..."

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chemistry and love at filmportal.de
  2. ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 19
  3. ^ Chemistry and love - about the weaknesses and mistakes of capitalism see page filmreporter.de. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  4. Helmut Pflügl and Raimund Fritz: The Divided Sky - Highlights of the DEFA Cinema 1946-1992 , Filmarchiv Austria 2001, p. 93.
  5. Entry at film.at
  6. Karsten Kruschel : Glue for Venus. The science fiction film in the GDR , in: Wolfgang Jeschke (Hrsg.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 2007 . P. 819.