Spring takes time
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Spring takes time |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Günter Stahnke |
| script |
Hermann O. Lauterbach Konrad Schwalbe Günter Stahnke |
| production | DEFA , KAG Babelsberg |
| music | Gerhard Siebholz |
| camera | Hans-Jürgen Sasse |
| cut | Erika Lehmphul |
| occupation | |
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Spring takes time is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Günter Stahnke from 1965 .
action
The independent Heinz Solter, engineer of a gas supply company, is dismissed without notice by his director Erhard Faber in an individual decision. When his daughter Inge comes home and explains to him that she has heard of the dismissal, the doorbell rings and he is arrested; he is accused of gross negligence, if not sabotage .
Solter is a respected employee from all sides, his competence is undisputed and he does not hold back with his opinion towards the management of the company. But he is also in good faith to give in to the urging of the representative of the higher-level agency, Comrade Schellhorn, to open a gas pipeline with the associated station contrary to the binding standards. With this decision, the company succeeds once again in becoming the quarterly winner in the socialist competition and thus receiving an impressive bonus and the traveling flag.
Although Solter warned of the possible dangers of early commissioning, there is a serious accident due to the low winter temperatures in the area of the gas system. The supply of gas to the northern districts can only be maintained through his immediate action, with the support of master Rudi Wiesen. The steam required to heat the system can be supplied with a steam locomotive from the nearby Deutsche Reichsbahn . Nevertheless the damage amounts to about half a million marks.
The public prosecutor Burger, initially taken against him, finally Solter volunteered for the Navy in 1942 during World War II , decides on the basis of a written testimony of the Technical Director Dr. Kranz to re-examine the case at work. It turns out that the technical acceptance was carried out on the instructions of the management, because for Director Faber the fulfillment of the plan, success and his own career are the top priorities. The investigation of the case leads to violent disputes in the company, in the course of which more and more employees take the side of Solter. The indictment is withdrawn .
production
Spring Takes Time was shot as a black and white film by the Babelsberg Artistic Working Group under the working title Energy and had its world premiere on November 25, 1965 in the Colosseum cinema in Berlin . Several sources give the original version a length of 96 minutes, the time of the cut cannot be determined. The renewed premiere after the ban at the 11th plenum of the Central Committee of the SED in December 1965 took place on January 18, 1990 in Berlin's Kino International . On July 11, 1990, it was shown in the 1st program of the German TV radio . An earlier television broadcast cannot be proven in the daily press.
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Hans-Joachim Wallstein and Bruno Pioch . The music was played by the beat band Sputniks .
criticism
In the New Age it was said that socialism does not make angels out of people, dirty intrigues also occur in state-owned enterprises, and it is still not easy for upright characters when such intrigues are directed against them. The film does not offer a panacea and the audience goes home with unanswered questions. The fact that Günter Stahnke prefers cold-bare backgrounds in order to concentrate the attention entirely on the dialogue and the acting expression becomes easy on the way. The direction is not convincing in all scenes and also not everything is dramatically successful.
In New Germany , Horst Knietzsch finds that Günther Stahnke tries to give his work an individual profile, but there are some disharmonies in the artistic implementation of the material. His efforts to create an interesting, visual expression are stimulating and productive, but in this film the result is a misunderstanding. It has to be bitter for a director if he does not want to make his way to the audience through artificiality and dilemma.
The lexicon of international film says that the thematically very interesting film, with camera angles that emphasize the alienation of the individual, only achieves the level of other prohibited films to a limited extent.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 186 to 188 .
Web links
- Spring takes time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Spring takes time at filmportal.de
- Spring takes time at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeit of November 19, 1965, p. 5
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 16, 1990, p. 4
- ↑ Neue Zeit of July 11, 1990, p. 10
- ↑ Neue Zeit of November 26, 1965, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from November 28, 1965, p. 6
- ↑ Spring takes time in the lexicon of international film