The first day of vacation
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The first day of vacation |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Engel |
| script |
Kurt Bobek Richard Engel |
| production | Television of the GDR |
| music | Wolfram Heicking |
| camera | Kurt Bobek |
| cut | Margrit Schulz |
| occupation | |
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The first day of vacation is a feature film on East German television directed by Richard Engel , based on motifs from the book Der Himmelblaue Zeppelin by Martin Stade from 1970, which was completed in 1974.
action
In the early 1960s sits in Thuringia the young tractor driver Andreas, called Tyrol, on his tractor to a harvester to harvest potatoes. Since he is not satisfied with the running noise of the engine, he drives by the LPG workshop at the end of the day to ask the locksmith Haggy to take a look at the engine. Although he's about to call it a day, he repairs the tractor with the help of the Tyrolean. Then there is the pensioner and former station master Labuschke, whom Haggy and Andreas had promised to build a machine to drive the starlings out of his cherry orchard, but they can get rid of him. After Andreas has washed himself, he picks up his girlfriend Ulrike on his motorcycle to take her to the countryside. She scolds her boyfriend almost all the time because he is more interested in his Soviet tractor, called "Iwan", and in his work than in her, because although he is sitting next to her, his thoughts are always elsewhere.
The next day, Andreas is supposed to come to the LPG office, where the brigadier will give him a bonus of 250 marks for his good work. In addition, he receives 12 days of vacation in the middle of the harvest season, as he then has to do his 18 months of basic military service in the NVA . Although he doesn't agree with the vacation at all, as there is still so much to do in the fields, he goes to Ulrike, who works as a saleswoman, to bring her the news. She is in favor immediately, wants to get a representative for her shop and is making plans for a trip to the Baltic Sea, which is why she tries on a bikini from her range and there are also swimming trunks for Andreas. But it all happens too quickly and then he also has to hand over the Ivan.
Zwermann, a former large farmer, with whom Andreas took his first steps as an employee in agriculture, is to take over the representation for Andreas during his time in the army. But he makes the tractor bad and still raves about the Deutz he once owned, which is why he doesn't really listen to the instruction. The day ends with a hearty drink in the village pub .
On the first day of his vacation, Andreas stows his things on the motorcycle and goes to pick up Ulrike. But when she steps out onto the street with her things, he has changed his mind and says that it will rain in three hours, which is why he has to cancel the trip, although not a single cloud can be seen in the sky. Then he drives to Zwermann in the potato field, sees that he has problems with Ivan and drives on. In the meantime, Haggy learns from Uzkoreit, a former train driver, that Labuschke is illegally withholding his cherry orchard from LPG and therefore no longer wants to build him a machine to drive away the starlings. That's why he goes to Labuschke with a saw , tells him that his grandfather once had to lose his life because of the starlings and expanded the story a lot until Labuschke made the suggestion of his own accord to saw off all the cherry trees. Now he's proud to have shown it to the starlings.
The next day, Andreas gets up very early, fetches the Ivan from the garage and drives to the field to harvest potatoes again. Zwermann follows him on his motorcycle and has himself once again instructed in detail about the tractor. In the meantime Ulrike has also arrived on foot with her things on the motorcycle and they can finally go on vacation together.
production
The scenario comes from Martin Stade and Günther Drommer was responsible for the dramaturgy . It was shot, with the support of the residents, in Haarhausen, the birthplace of the author Martin Stade.
The first day of vacation was shot as a black and white film with the working title Tiroler macht Urlaub and was first broadcast on February 13, 1974 in the first program of GDR television .
criticism
In New Germany , Peter Berger wrote:
“Not that much happened [so]. Yes, it happened a little bit for a nearly an hour and a half movie. But at least Stade knows how to use fables. Anyone who found the time to look more closely was amply compensated. "
In the New Age , Mimosa Künzel said:
“The environment was also sketched with humor, the lovable, quirky peculiarities of other people that had to be corrected if necessary impaled with satirical ability. The young writers who have the gift and the courage to examine our everyday life in a cheerful and critical way are obviously breaking new ground. "
Web links
- The first vacation day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The first day of vacation at filmportal.de
- The first day of vacation in the online dictionary of television in the GDR
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 16, 1974, p. 4
- ↑ Neue Zeit of February 19, 1974, p. 4