The wedding of Länneken

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Movie
Original title The wedding of Länneken
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1964
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Heiner Carow
script Herbert Neighbor
Heiner Carow
Anne Pfeuffer (Dramaturgy)
production DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music Günter Kochan
camera Peter Krause
cut Bärbel winemaker
occupation

The Wedding of Länneken is a DEFA German feature film directed by Heiner Carow from 1964 . It is based on the novel of the same name by Herbert Nachbar , who was also involved in the script.

action

On the island of Länneken in the Bodden there was a dispute in the cold winter of 1929 that has continued to the present: At that time the fishermen and Heinrich Pröpping, known as "König" and Johannes Grabe, known as "Admiral", discovered that they were both Had received a permit to use one of the most fish-rich fishing grounds. The former best friends became bitter enemies and dragged Länneken into their stretches. Fischer Fögenteich later also received a fishing permit for the site and there was now an icy silence between Pröpping and Grabe.

A few years after the end of the war, the Länneken fishermen joined the fishing cooperative. Pröpping and Grabe are in different brigades and both are significantly wealthier than other fishermen who have to work in fish-less places. More and more often there are protests from the other fishermen who want to have part of the fish-rich stocks assigned to their brigade. Not only the fight for the fishplaces moves Pröpping and Grabe. They also challenge their children: Henning Grabe and Bärbel Pröpping are a couple against their parents' wishes. When the two of them talk to each other on their respective cutters, Johannes angrily urges his son to switch to the other cutter. A little later there is the cooperative assembly in which Henning accuses his father of having saved his wealth from the Nazi era to the present. Johannes disinherits his son in front of the entire village community. Henning can also not get his way with his suggestion to merge all brigades so that everyone can benefit from the good fish stocks.

Henning now lives with Johannes and his girlfriend Bärbel. The strictly religious mother Friederike Pröpping in particular is reluctant to see this constellation, as she fears her daughter's premarital pregnancy. But she cannot prevail against her husband, who hopes that the capable Henning will join his brigade. Henning refuses, he wants to stay with his much weaker brigade and bring them forward. Heinrich reacts angrily and insults Henning as a Bolshevik, but apologizes the next day.

The old fisherman Fögenteich dies and Heinrich buys his traps in the fish-rich waters from the widow. He realizes that his and Johannes' stubbornness could both fall behind in the end and wants to reconcile with Johannes. Her two fish traps and Fögenteich's trap would make them the largest brigade in Länneken. However, John rejects a reconciliation. Regardless of the paternal quarrels, Henning and Bärbel continue to go out together. They dance in the village mug and Henning gets violent when a villager insults Bärbel. It comes to a big fight, which Bärbel ends in exasperation. Back at Heinrich's house, he was thrilled, because Henning had fought for him. He spontaneously announces the engagement of Henning and Bärbel, but Henning interrupts him. He didn't fight for him. Heinrich gets angry and declares that his daughter will not marry a Bolshevik. Henning, however, states that Bärbel will decide alone and, if necessary, against the father's will. Heinrich disinherits Bärbel. She secretly spends the night with Henning and is caught by her mother the next morning. She leaves in a hurry, but returns to Henning shortly afterwards. She has realized that she really doesn't want her parents to talk her into her life. A short time later, Bärbel and Henning's wedding takes place and Johannes and Heinrich are reconciled. The peace only lasts for a short time, as the cooperative gives the newlyweds the fishing rights for the fish-rich area that has been contested for decades. There are big protests on the part of the fishermen, but Henning explains that anyone who wants can come to his brigade.

production

The Länneken wedding was filmed in 1963 on Hiddensee , among other places . The costumes were created by Marlene Froese , the film structures are by Willy Schiller . The film had its world premiere on February 28, 1964 in Berlin's Kino International . The film was released in GDR cinemas on April 3, 1964.

criticism

For the film service , The Länneken Wedding was an “unconvincing attempt to sell political doctrines in a catchy film story”. The GDR's contemporary critics praised the fact that the film brought "the tenacity of anachronistic forms of life" to the screen for the first time and that the film fixated on a "social conflict", but criticized that the film did not go beyond a characterization of the opposites. Also Renate Holland-Moritz wrote that the conflict between the two families neither "clear psychologically" will not solve.

Cinema said that in the film Romeo and Juliet was relocated to the GDR; the criticism of the GDR at a review of the film in 1964 titled "Romeo and Juliet on Länneken".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See The Länneken Wedding on defa.de.
  2. ↑ The wedding of Länneken. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ a b Fred Gehler: Romeo and Juliet on Länneken . In: Sonntag , No. 15, 1964.
  4. ^ Renate Holland-Moritz: cinema owl . In: Eulenspiegel , No. 1, April 1964.
  5. ↑ See cinema.de