Suspicion (1991)

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Movie
Original title The suspicion
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1991
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Frank Beyer
script Ulrich Plenzdorf
production DEFA -Studio Babelsberg GmbH, KAG “Berlin”
WDR
music Günther Fischer
camera Peter Ziesche
cut Lotti Mehnert
occupation

Suspicion is a German feature film that was made in coproduction with DEFA -Studio Babelsberg GmbH and WDR in 1991 and directed by Frank Beyer based on the narrative Unfinished Story by Volker Braun from 1990.

action

Nineteen-year-old Karin celebrated Christmas Eve at home with her parents in the 1970s . Her father gave her a typewriter because she wanted to study journalism. In preparation for this, her father, with the help of his connections as council chairman in a border district of the GDR , found her a trainee position in the editorial office of the SED district newspaper , which she can take up at the beginning of next year. When Karin wants to go to the district town on Christmas Day to go to the theater with her boyfriend Frank, she is urged by her parents to give up the relationship with him because "something is against him". Her relationship with Frank, who has a criminal record for hooliganism and whose father is in jail for foreign exchange smuggling, could endanger her career. Karin cannot find out more details, but she bows to this request for the time being, stays at home and even lets herself be denied on the phone.

Karin loves Frank and she knows that he needs her. At the beginning of the new year, she goes to the district town to start her new job. She wants to live with her sister Irina until she has found her own room. She works as a hairdresser in a large salon and her husband works as a truck driver in international transport. After the interviews in the editorial office and the registration with her sister, the next thing she tries to do is contact Frank. Meeting him makes you forget the previous anger and she continues to stick with him. But the pressure from all sides is becoming increasingly unbearable. The comrades in the editorial office and state security officers make it clear to her that there can be no future with Frank. Her father now also gives her the information that in a letter addressed to Frank from a former friend who ran off with a gun to the West on duty at the German border, there should be references to a planned escape from the republic.

Finally she complies, separates from Frank. When she fetches her things from his room, he's already drunk. After she leaves, he swallows a whole glass of pills, seals all the cracks in the doors and turns on the gas tap. This suicide attempt causes her to rethink, she is now even more committed to it and accepts all the consequences. As a result, she loses her position in the editorial office and is not even employed as a laborer, which is why her sister wants to train her as a hairdresser. She leaves her parents and moves in with Frank's mother. In Karin's dreams, the culprits for Frank's condition are held accountable. Frank, who had been in a coma since the suicide attempt, slowly regains his memory as he leaves the hospital.

production

The Suspicion was filmed under the working title Unfinished Story on Eastmancolor and had its world premiere on October 10, 1991 at the Berlin Kino International . It was first broadcast on television on March 2, 1994 on ARD .

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Peter Jakubeit .

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films states that the film is a righteous, but too lengthy attempt to come to terms with the past, which is supported by good actors, but whose script and cinematic implementation leave much to be desired.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The suspicion. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 11, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used