The chin hook

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Movie
Original title The chin hook
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1962
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Heinz Thiel
script Horst Bastian ,
Manfred Krug
production DEFA , group "60", group "Heinrich Greif"
music Andre Asriel
camera Josef Novotný ,
Milos Saurer
cut Anneliese Hinze-Sokolowa
occupation

The Kinnhaken is a German DEFA film directed by Heinz Thiel in 1962.

action

The day of August 13, 1961: young Carolin heard on the radio that the border with West Berlin was closed. There she worked as a barmaid and that's where she wants to go again. At the crossing, she only meets the company combat group man Georg, who is impressed by her, but does not let her pass. Both meet again for a short time. When Carolin makes it clear to him that she wants to flee to the west, he promises her to take her to the west via a safe path after the combat groups have withdrawn. September has begun, the troops have left and Carolin reminds Georg of his promise. He tells her that he lied to her and can't understand why she doesn't want to gain a foothold as a “schnapps seller” in East Berlin. What he doesn't know is that Carolin has started a relationship with a Swiss guest at the bar. What Carolin doesn't know and only learns from her flatmate Rose is that the Swiss boy was recommended to her by Carolin's friend Bubi and paid money for the relationship.

Carolin, who starts working with Rose in the consumer business a short time later , receives a visit from Bubi and asks whether he has really sold her to other men like a prostitute . Bubi admits and wants more: The Swiss man has announced that he is going to visit Berlin and Carolin should receive him, not least so that Bubi can get some money again. If she refuses, Bubi Georg wants to tell everything about her past. He gives Carolin two weeks to think about it.

Carolin is dejected for the next few days, but does not want to reveal herself to Georg. He only learns the background from Rose, but after a period of shock is ready to check Carolin: He wants to know whether her love for him is greater than her fear of Bubi, and he wants to see whether she will speak to him. However, Carolin refuses any offer to tell him about her grief. When she found out that Georg already knew everything about her past, she fled to Dresden on the day the Swiss arrived, but was caught by Georg on the train and passed out at the sight of him. Georg knows that Bubi will appear on the day of the Swiss departure and reveal Carolin's past to him. He receives him and knocks him down with a hook on the chin . It comes to a fight that leaves Bubi badly beaten. Georg's friend Frank has meanwhile notified the police who are taking Bubi into custody. At Carolin's bed, Georg asks his girlfriend for forgiveness and the two make up.

production

The world premiere took place on November 29, 1962 in the Berlin film theater Kosmos .

The chin hook should justify the construction of the wall . The GDR's contemporary criticism wrote: “A hook on the chin hit right at the beginning of this film. It is the blow that our state dealt the would-be warriors in West Berlin and Bonn and their followers on August 13, 1961. ”The film was next to … and your love also (1962) and Sunday driver (1963) one of three“ Wall- Films ”by DEFA, which were made shortly after the Wall was built. The scenes around the construction of the wall, which actually took place in August, were filmed in the winter of 1962/63 so that the breath of cold becomes visible while the protagonists speak.

Der Kinnhaken was the only film in which Manfred Krug also appeared as a screenwriter. He had the idea for the film and wrote the main role on his own. In their reviews, critics therefore presented Krug as a well-known singer and actor, “who [nevertheless] took the trouble and risk of a novice screenwriter in those days because he felt he had to say something to his peers: that things are better here and lets live more humanly that the door to freedom has not closed for them, but on the contrary is only now opening. "

criticism

Contemporary critics praised Manfred Krug's "rough charm" and the fact that the serious theme of the film "is loosened up by cheerful episodes [...]."

In retrospect, Alfred Holighaus rated the film in comparison to other films on the Wall as "ranking behind that of Frank Vogel [ ... and your love too ] in terms of film history and aesthetics ", as it "deals with the subject more easily and carelessly", but also “not as unsympathetic or involuntarily funny as '... and your love too' [works]. This is not least due to the dialogue wit and the unpretentious game of Manfred Krug, who began here, which he perfected as Brigadführer Baller in Frank Beyer's ' Trace of Stones '. "

For the film service , Der Kinnhaken was "a little convincing, quickly realized material on the subject of building the wall, which suffers from coarsening and poor dialogue"

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Manfred Jelenski in Berliner Zeitung , December 4, 1962.
  2. ↑ Wochenpost , December 8, 1962. Quoted from Klaus Polkehn: That was the Wochenpost. History and stories of a newspaper . Ch.links Verlag, Berlin 1997, p. 90.
  3. ^ Alfred Holighaus: Years of the Wall . In: TIP Magazin , No. 4, 1995.
  4. ↑ The chin hook. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 29, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used