The store (film)
Der Laden is a three-part TV feature film by Jo Baier from 1998. It is based on the novel trilogy Der Laden by Erwin Strittmatter .
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The main character is Esau Matt, who is nine at the beginning and guides the story as the narrator. In the summer of 1919, the Esaus family moved from Grausteen ( Graustein ) to Bossdom , where their parents bought a general store with a bakery. This was done with great financial support from the grandfather, who also lives in the house with his wife. Neither father Heinrich nor mother Lenchen have commercial skills and therefore have to borrow money from grandfather again and again without being able to pay it back.
The father has an affair with the nanny Hanka, with whom Esau is also in love. But Lenchen's somewhat retarded brother Phile, who comes back late from the war , has also had an eye on Hanka.
After the conservative village teacher Rumposch was replaced by a more progressive and dedicated teacher, he discovered that Esau had a talent for writing. He suggests that Esau go to high school in Spremberg in the future .
In the second part, Esau is 16 years old. He lives in Spremberg with a childhood friend of his mother's and goes to high school there. For the first time he is seriously in love with Ilonka Spadi. She seems to reciprocate his feelings, but also flirts with a classmate of Esau and a teacher with Nazi convictions. Esau leaves school out of disappointment.
In the third part, Esau returns from the war . His brother Tinko also lives in their parents' house with his wife Elvira. Elvira is indeed a talent for organization, but also a bitch who (unsuccessfully) also wants to seduce Esau. The grandfather, who is very much admired by Esau, has become demented and does not recognize Esau again. His brother Heinjak's wife was raped by Soviet soldiers and is therefore pregnant. Esau begins a relationship with the community nurse. But when it turns out that Nona, with whom he had a relationship during the war, had a child, he accepts responsibility. For a long time he doesn't quite know how to deal with the new situation as husband and father. After all, he can occasionally pursue writing, but only after the intercession of his old village teacher Rumposch and when he joins the SED can he turn his talent into a job, as an editor of a newspaper.
Reviews
“The highly detailed film researches the dialectic of the changeable and the archaic, for constants in all generations and times. An ambitious attempt, which, thanks to its excellent performance, is captivating, but which sometimes gets stuck in a picturesque panopticon due to (necessary) shortenings and simplifications of the novel. "
Awards
- 1999: German Television Award : Best Actor Supporting Role for Martin Benrath . There were nominations for Dagmar Manzel (best actress in a leading role - television film / multi-part) , Conny Ziesche and Thorsten Klein (best television film / multi-part) and Lothar Holler (best production design) .
- 1999: Bavarian TV Prize : Special Jury Prize for Jo Baier .
- 1999: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for Jo Baier and Martin Benrath .
Web links
- The shop in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The store. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 29, 2017 .