The fiancee

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Movie
Original title The fiancee
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1980
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Günther Rücker
Günter Reisch
script Günther Rücker, Günter Reisch
production DEFA
television of the GDR
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Jürgen Brauer
cut Erika Lehmphul
occupation

The fiancee is a German film adaptation of DEFA of Günther Rücker and Günter Reisch from 1980. It is based on the novels house the heavy gates and life, where died of Eva Lippold .

action

Germany 1934: The communist Hella Lindau, together with her friend Hermann Reimers, campaigns against the fascists. Although she realizes that fellow campaigner Irene is not up to the pressure and warns the others, her concerns are not taken seriously. Hermann sends Hella to Irene with a large sum of money, but Irene has betrayed the plan. Hella is arrested, takes the blame and is sentenced to ten years in prison. She spent the first two years in solitary confinement. Your only gateway to the outside world is a small window in your cell. Their conditions of detention will be relaxed somewhat after two years. She comes into contact with other women while washing, but is sentenced to twelve days in darkness when she speaks out against the treatment of the other women. A first meeting with Hermann is stopped at short notice because Hella has not done the work that was assigned to her. At the next check she did more than prescribed. At the first meeting with Hermann, Hella collapses.

Hermann, who tried in vain to be allowed to marry Hella in custody, makes himself popular with Hensch from the Gestapo , a passionate beekeeper, because his father also breeds bees. In this way he succeeds in improving Hella's prison conditions after three years. She comes to the laundry, where she is entrusted as a "political woman" with the official laundry, which the other laundresses, prostitutes and murderers, are not allowed to touch. During the years of imprisonment, Hella maintained her love for Hermann, who wrote her letters, even if the German-Soviet non-aggression pact plunged Hella into deep doubts and confusion. From time to time the prisoners learn of political events outside the prison walls. The Russian campaign is viewed wait and see by the few communists in prison, the country is large and the advance could not continue for more than two years. The war is turning and German cities are falling to rubble and ashes. Hermann has to report regularly to the Gestapo office. Shortly before Hella's release from prison, Hermann was arrested in 1944, as a great deal of evidence had been gathered against him and other communists over the years. Hella is summoned and questioned again, but sticks with her statement at the time. In the prison, Hella is secretly allowed to go to Hermann under a guard and gives the handcuffed man a warm hug. Hermann is taken away and deported. In a letter to Hella, he predicts his death. When Hella is released from prison, she ends up sitting alone in front of Hermann's front door.

production

The fiancée is based on Eva Lippold's autobiographical trilogy House of Heavy Gates . The film, which was shot from 1979, premiered on September 2, 1980 at the Berlin Kino International . It was shown in GDR cinemas on September 5, 1980 and was shown for the first time on April 10, 1981 on the DFF on GDR television. The early television broadcast was criticized by Renate Holland-Moritz , as it deprives the cinema of the audience. "It's a shame that the groom of television seems to show less love than jealousy towards his partner DEFA", Holland-Moritz alluded to in her criticism of the co-production of DEFA and DFF. The film was released in German cinemas on June 12, 1981, and was shown for the first time on NDR on German television on November 14, 1984.

The costumes were created by Sybille Gerstner , Ruth Kiecker and Hans Linke , the film structures are by Dieter Adam .

The dubbing voices are Thomas Kästner (for Regimantas Adomaitis), Elsa Grube-Deister (for Slávka Budínová) and Regine Albrecht (for Ewa Ziętek).

The film received numerous awards, including international ones, and is considered to be one of DEFA's most successful anti-fascist films.

criticism

Contemporary critics praised the accuracy of the film, which “has an authenticity that otherwise only the document knows.” The performance of Jutta Wachowiak in the female lead was highlighted: “The role and representation of Hella by Jutta Wachowiak alone is worth seeing and worthy of great praise. A well-known excellent actress rose in the art of human representation to a height that is difficult to achieve and not so quickly reproducible. But I also saw no other actor who did not give his best - in every way - ... And Jürgen Brauer's camera - alert, attentive, not a movement escaped it, and it never became intrusive or shameless. Brauer put the human into the optical. ”Renate Holland-Moritz called the film a work“ full of human stories, rousing, moving, pointed women's fates told in wonderful language. And the fact that this film was able to become an artistic event of the first order is thanks to the women who were able to shape such fates. "

The film-dienst called Die Verlobte a “moving 'passion story' of a defenseless, but courageous, weak and yet indomitable woman in the machinery of the penal system in the Third Reich. Convincing both as a heroic women’s film and as a prison film and love story, but above all as a cinematic exploration of emotional worlds. ”Jutta Wachowiak's performance was described as“ outstanding ”.

For Cinema , the film was “excellently played, multi-layered. Conclusion: the deeply moving fate of a woman ”.

Awards (selection)

On the XXII. At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival , The Fiancee received the Grand Prix in 1980. Jürgen Brauer, Günter Reisch, Günther Rücker, Jutta Wachowiak, Regimantas Adomaitis and Eva Lippold were awarded the first class national prize in 1980.

The theory and criticism section of the Association of Film and Television Makers of the GDR awarded Die Verlobte the Critics' Prize as the best DEFA film from the 1980 cinema program in 1981. In the same year, the film won first prize at the Sydney International Film Festival and was awarded the prize at the 12th International Week of Filmmakers in Benalmádena , Spain, awarded the Virgin of Benalmadena .

At the 2nd National Feature Film Festival of the GDR Karl-Marx-Stadt , the film received the Grand Prize in 1982 as well as the price for camera (for Jürgen Brauer), editing (Erika Lehmphul), scenography (Dieter Adam), the actor's award (Jutta Wachowiak) and two supporting role awards (Käthe Reichel, Rolf Ludwig).

In the GDR, the film received the rating “particularly valuable”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The fiancee . In: Renate Holland-Moritz: The owl in the cinema. New movie reviews . Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1994, p. 15.
  2. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 662 .
  3. ↑ Günter Agde: Changed the tone of the folk song or you ask a lot ... In: Filmspiegel , No. 20, 1980.
  4. ↑ The fiancee . In: Renate Holland-Moritz: The owl in the cinema. New movie reviews . Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1994, p. 14.
  5. ↑ The fiancee. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ See cinema.de