The special day: light bulbs don't grow on trees
| Episode in the series The Special Day | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Light bulbs don't grow on trees |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
DEFA on behalf of East German television |
| length | 16 minutes |
| classification | Episode broadcast in the series The Special Day |
| First broadcast | November 30, 1980 on GDR television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Konrad White |
| script | Konrad White |
| music | Thomas Natschinski |
| camera | Manfred Kronau |
| cut | Karin Klöpsch |
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Lightbulbs Don't Grow on Trees is a film from the series The Special Day of Television in the GDR by Konrad Weiß from 1980, made by the DEFA studio for short films for preschool children .
action
Ms. Grosse is an unskilled worker who has been working for 14 years on a machine in the Berlin VEB Narva Kombinat Berliner Glühlampenwerk , which attaches the base of the incandescent lamps to the corresponding glass bulbs. While the camera is watching her work in the company, she talks about her everyday life, during which she also accompanies the film people.
She is divorced and at home alone with her three children. These are the two girls Angelika and Christine, one in the fourth grade and one in the second grade, as well as the boy Andreas, who is going to school next year. The children have to get up as early as five o'clock so that the mother gets to work on time, who quickly brings Andreas to kindergarten before her shift . In the afternoon, the girls do their homework in the after- school care center and then pick up their brother from kindergarten. They also try to help their mother with little household chores. Ms. Grosse plays the accordion and the two girls play the triola , so they can often make music together. At the weekend Mrs. Grosses friend Kurt comes. The kids like Kurt too and want him not only to be there on weekends. Kurt can bake and cook and does a lot of other household chores, so that Ms. Grosse has an easier time.
Production and publication
Light bulbs do not grow on trees was filmed on ORWO-Color as a result of the film series The Special Day and was broadcast for the first time on November 30, 1980 in the morning program of the first program on GDR television. The first demonstrable performance on a big screen took place on July 10, 2020 in the Zeughauskino in Berlin .
The lyrics are from Konrad Weiß, they were sung by Barbara Thalheim .
Web links
- The special day: Light bulbs don't grow on trees Introduction to the film by Jeanpaul Goergen on July 10, 2020 in the Zeughauskino in Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeit of November 22, 1980, p. 9
- ^ You - and other women from East Berlin in the Berlin Zeughauskino