DEFA Disco 77

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Movie
Original title Defa Disco 77
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1977
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director Heinz Thiel Sketches
Werner W. Wallroth musical interludes
script Heinz Thiel
Werner W. Wallroth
Werner Bergmann
Kurt Belicke scenario
Hans-Joachim Preil scenario
production DEFA
music Veronika Fischer & Band , Gruppe Karat , Angelika Mann , Kurt Demmler , Chris Doerk , Gruppe Kreis , Reinhard Lakomy , Dorit Gäbler and Wolfgang Wallroth
camera Siegfried Mogel
Werner Bergmann Episode 2
cut Thea Richter
occupation

DEFA Disko 77 is a German episode film by DEFA directed by Werner W. Wallroth (music videos) and Heinz Thiel (sketches). The premiere took place on May 26, 1977 in the Berlin Kino International . In October 1999 the film was released on VHS.

action

In the film, music videos and skits are strung together incoherently. Music videos and skits were produced independently. The structure of the film is based on the television series Disco of West German television, which was produced from 1971 to 1982.

Veronika Fischer is being made up. Since the tour bus doesn't start, she takes a horse-drawn cart with her band. In a meadow they sing And who are you (I am the fishermen ...) until it starts to rain. The Karat group sings the title Charlie . In addition, young people dance in a planetarium.

In the first sketch of the film “In the hairdressing salon”, a hairdresser wants to shave an Indian, but he screams every time the hairdresser comes too close to him with his razor . First the hairdresser wants to kill the Indian with a hatchet, but then begins to shave him with the ax blade and the Indian is satisfied with the sharp blade.

Angelika Mann lies in bed and sings the hit song “ The Seven Dwarfs” . There are also scenes with her as Snow White and seven dwarfs who are significantly larger than her. In parallel, scenes of the making of garden gnomes are shown. Kurt Demmler sings the title Verse auf sex legs . The video is accompanied by scenes of a marionette stripper and edited sequences of a naked woman.

In the second sketch “Married couple!” A man comes home and brings his wife flowers. She is suspicious that men who otherwise never bring flowers and present flowers all at once, ostensibly without a reason for it, usually have a valid reason. She doubts the man's intentions until he throws the flowers on the ground and leaves, angry. The woman gives the all-clear and her hidden lover in underwear climbs out of the closet. Veronika Fischer and band sing Love is gone .

A man explains to his wife in the sketch "Love, lust and passion" that he has successfully completed a ventriloquist course. He presents his ventriloquist dummy and can even ventriloquist with a lemon in his mouth so perfectly that the woman at the end of the dummy covers her mouth. The man announces the next sketch "Later marriage not excluded", which was written by Rolf Herricht :

Herricht is Paul, who has only been married to his wife Monika for a month, but still replied to a marriage advertisement from Monika's best friend Veronika. Since Monika is going to a course lasting several days, she plans with Veronika that Paul should make the date hell, while Monika should wait in Veronika's apartment. At home, Paul has a caller on the phone who he calls Maxi - Monika jealously leaves the apartment and forgets her packed suitcase. In fact, Paul answered the ads on behalf of Maximilian "Maxi" Lauter, an alleged friend who only takes advantage of him and also uses his apartment for his dates. While Maximilian is clearing Paul’s apartment, disgusting his mother-in-law on the phone and Paul is getting alcohol for him, Monika appears to pick up her suitcase. Maximilian takes her for Veronika and almost seduces her. He tells her about the "fool" Paul and his stupid new wife and reveals the whole circumstances of the ad response. She slaps him and leaves and he realizes that he has spoken to Paul's wife. He wants to warn Paul and leaves, but when Paul comes back from shopping, he now meets Veronica, who has just appeared and wants to take the shy man by surprise. The mother-in-law has meanwhile also arrived, discovered Veronika and again alerted Monika. While Paul is running after Veronika, Maximilian appears, who, after his disappointment with Monika, has vowed to propose marriage on the next date - he meets Paul's mother-in-law, tries to seduce her and at the end agrees to a marriage. Only now do Paul, Monika and Veronika appear and Paul greets Maximilian with amusement as the new father-in-law.

Chris Doerk sings the hit beetle tango about an insect collector . This is followed by the group Karat with the title Abendstimmung (carry me away) . In the sketch “painter and model” a model comes to a painter and undresses behind a partition. When she stands in front of him wearing only a sheet, she thinks that she really isn't a model. He admits he's not a painter either. The group circle sings while sitting in bathtubs. You make me tired . Reinhard Lakomy presents the title Love in the Forest on the piano, which also includes scenes in which he tries in vain to seduce a woman in a baroque dress in the forest. In the last sketch “Father and Daughter”, a father tries to enlighten his daughter until she pushes a pram with a baby towards him without a word and calls out “Da - Grandpa!”. At the end, Dorit Gäbler and Wolfgang Wallroth sing the title It will be spring soon and, among other things, sit in the rain or snow or walk along a railroad track.

criticism

“The most convincing parts are the parts that are sometimes overflowing with ideas, which reveal an ironic, piquantly broken relationship to the song,” wrote one critic who also described the sketch ... later marriage not excluded as “hard to beat in terms of bourgeois morality”.

For the film-dienst , DEFA Disko 77 was an "artistically unsatisfactory and in places extremely tough attempt to discover unconventional, video clip-like forms for GDR cinema."

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Lange: Idiosyncratic experiment . In: Filmspiegel , No. 14, 1977, p. 14.
  2. ^ DEFA Disko 77. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed August 2, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used