The third

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Movie
Original title The third
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1972
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Egon Günther
script Günther Rücker (scenario)
production DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Erich Gusko
cut Rita Hiller
occupation

The third is a German love film of the DEFA of Egon Günther from 1972. It is based on the story under the trees it rains always twice by Eberhard Panitz .

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Margit Fließer is in her mid-thirties, a single mother with two daughters from different men and works as a mathematician. She lives emancipated and yet is looking for a man. Two disappointments in her life encourage her to look for the third, the right one, even if she violates social conventions. She hopes to have found the right third party in her colleague Hrdlitschka, who, however, does not yet know anything about her. During this time she always thinks back to her past:

She lost her mother in childhood and was raised by deaconesses . At some point she realized that she could not work as a deaconess because she lacks deep faith in God. She went to the Workers and Peasants Faculty and met her first. Bachmann was her lecturer at the ABF, wooed her and she let herself be seduced. When she became pregnant, Bachmann had already left her and voted in the examination committee to give her an extended time to complete her thesis because of her child. Margit later met a blind man who impressed her with his love for literature and music. They moved in together. He saved the money that made it possible for both of them to study. She became pregnant and he lost his college degree and started drinking. When he went to West Berlin, she did not follow him, even though he asked.

With Hrdlitschka everything is supposed to be different, but Margit has a hard time conquering the man. She learns from his mother that he enjoys hiking. When she “happened” to meet him on the train and he invited her to go on a hike together, she invented a sick friend who was waiting for her. Only her best friend Lucie, who has an unhappy relationship with a bound man, would not turn Hrdlitschka away and therefore asks Margit to take the man or she does, lets Margit take action. On the next trip on the train, she accepts Hrdlitschka's offer to hike together. Both get on well and the realization that Margit has two daughters doesn't scare Hrdlitschka. The wedding will follow soon. Margit tells Lucie that her daughters are happy with their new, "first" husband. You yourself “have to see” what is coming.

production

Main actress Jutta Hoffmann in 1971

The world premiere took place on March 16, 1972 in the Berlin Kino International .

The film sparked a lively public discussion about the situation and role of women in the GDR: "The argument is not so much about the how, but about the what: about what the film shows in terms of social reality and raises new problems", wrote Rosemarie Rehahn in the weekly mail . The openness of individual scenes was also criticized in the public discussion, including an attempted abortion and a scene with “latent lesbian caresses” between Margit and Lucie.

In one scene, Lucie watches the school television series English for you with Diana Loeser , which was popular in the 1970s.

criticism

The contemporary critics praised the film: "The strong effects of the film are montage and music, the exact mixture of seriousness and subtle humor like an openness that is unusual for Babelsberg and nothing human remains alien". Other critics wrote that the film "grew out of the present, has meaning for the future."

For film-dienst , The Third was “a coherent, gentle, humorous DEFA contribution to the discussion about the situation of women and the need for female emancipation. The reality of Günther's film is considerably stronger than in the book. Excellent in her playfulness, which often seems improvised: Jutta Hoffmann. "

Cinema said: “Great: A woman is looking for her way far away from real socialist role clichés. Conclusion: A DEFA insider tip: realistic and funny ”.

Awards

Jutta Hoffmann received the 2nd class national prize for Der Third . This prize was awarded “for exemplary human design on the stage, in film and on television, especially in works of contemporary socialist drama”.

Egon Günther received the national 3rd class prize for his performance as a director .

Jutta Hoffmann was on the XXXIII. Venice Film Art Show 1972 awarded the Venezia Critica Prize.

The film received the main prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1972. The film received the state rating of "particularly valuable".

In 2005, The Third ran as part of the two-week Defa retrospective “Rebels with a cause” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rosemarie Rehahn: Discussion . In: Wochenpost , June 16, 1972.
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Kersten: Three men and one woman . In: Tagesspiegel , March 26, 1972.
  3. ↑ Margit Voss: Of great dimensions. "The third" . In: Filmspiegel , No. 6, 1972.
  4. ↑ The third. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 30, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ The third. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on July 30, 2018.
  6. ^ Film information from the Defa Foundation
  7. ↑ defa.de: Defa retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
  8. ^ Moma: Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany; October 7-23, 2005