The seventh year

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Movie
Original title The seventh year
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1969
length 83 minutes
Rod
Director Frank Vogel
script Frank Vogel
production DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music Peter Rabenalt
camera Roland Graef
cut Helga Krause
occupation

The seventh year is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Frank Vogel from 1969 .

action

There are still seven days until the end of the infamous "seventh year" of the marriage between the heart surgeon Barbara Heim and the actor Günter Heim. Both are very involved in their jobs and have a six-year-old daughter. Family life suffers from the great professional commitment of the two, because when Günter goes to the theater, Barbara comes home.

For Barbara the problems seem to be no longer manageable at times, and when a woman and a child die in the clinic after an operation within a short time, their conflict intensifies. In addition, she notices how her husband is impressed by the wife of her colleague Manfred Sommer, whose job is only to look after herself and her home. But the thought that arises to give up her job cannot be the solution for Barbara. It is necessary to dare a new beginning with more mutual understanding and she will overcome the crisis.

Production and publication

The filming locations in Berlin were in the Charité , Friedrichstrasse , in the S- and U- Bahnhof Berlin Alexanderplatz , U-Bahnhof Schillingstrasse , Strandbad Müggelsee and on the Weidendammer Bridge .

The seventh year was started by the artistic working group “Berlin” under the working titles The 7th year and Are you happy? shot as a black and white film and had its world premiere on February 28, 1969 at the Berlin Kino International . The film was shown for the first time on March 20, 1970 in the first program on GDR television . On January 25, 1971, it was broadcast on ZDF .

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Anne Pfeuffer. In a Cameoauftritt are Eberhard Esche , Cox Habbema and Otto Mellies to see.

criticism

Helmut Ullrich expressed himself as follows in the Neue Zeit :

“The camera work by Roland Graf is excellent: He does not take the dramatic principle of the film, showing repetitions, of daily activities, of work processes, as a scheme, but rather varies it loosely by changing shots. It's close to the documentary: Berlin's streets and people. "

Günter Sobe wrote in the Berliner Zeitung :

“With The Seventh Year , a DEFA contemporary film has been in the cinemas for a long time, whose conscious artistic design of our everyday life is striking. A film that wants to make something of the poetry of this everyday life swing, that creates a multifaceted mosaic of the development of socialist personalities. It is by far the most mature expression of director Frank Vogel in terms of film art and a film that is also remarkable on an international level. "

The lexicon of international films writes that this is a skeptical review of professional and family problems, with the overstrain in certain professions and the double burden of a working woman and mother being shown in an unadulterated manner. As a socio-political contribution he is considerable, as well as brilliant as an actor, here especially Wolfgang Kieling .

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  1. ↑ Neue Zeit of March 2, 1969, p. 4
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 4, 1969, p. 6
  3. ↑ The seventh year. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 8, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland from May 1, 1970, p. 5