The Buddik

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Movie
Original title The Buddik
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1983
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK not specified
Rod
Director Frank Guthke
script Heinrich Kraus
production ZDF
music Bergkapelle St. Ingbert , choir of the Becker brewery
camera Rolf Paulerberg
cut Horst Rossberger
occupation

The Buddik is a German television film that was broadcast on ZDF for the first time on May 31, 1983 .

action

The focus is on the 74-year-old widower Matz Uhl, who lives with his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter in his house in St. Ingbert , the "Buddik", which is in need of renovation . His son-in-law is annoyed about the living conditions and wants to build his own bungalow , but the money is not enough, and his wife wants to stay in the buddik because she receives customers here as a hairdresser . Uhl doesn't care, he goes to the sports field and messes with the trainer or rehearses as a trumpeter with his senior brass quartet. He falls in love with Elsje, a long-time customer of his daughter, who is herself a widow . The two meet up several times. After the two got closer for the first time, Uhl realizes that he had completely forgotten the concert of his wind group that he had rehearsed long before. Disappointed, the organizer has to cancel the performance. Elsje also throws him off the next day: She cannot and does not want to be with him. Uhl feels left alone. On this day, Schang, one of his fellow musicians, dies. At his funeral , Uhl reproaches himself for not having seen him at the hour of his death. He suggests the other two musicians to continue as a trio , but they refuse: they are too old .

background

The film, which bears the sub-title “A Story from the Saarland ”, was shot mainly with amateur actors in the medium-sized town of St. Ingbert. For the experienced leading actor Hans Elwenspoek this was the last role, he died in 1989.

criticism

"Since the authors tell their story quite naturally, without folklore and without arrogance towards people and milieu, as Hans Elwenspoeck also endowed the main character with a relaxed nobility and the amateur actors mastered their game, a film could succeed that represents its cause quite unpretentiously, - sometimes weird, sometimes sad or long-winded, cozy, but always very close to reality. "

- Renate Hengsberger : Saarbrücker Zeitung from June 2, 1983

DVD release

The Kinowerkstatt St. Ingbert released the film again on DVD in 2004 and showed it on the big screen in the presence of many actors.

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