The Christmas plumbers
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| Original title | The Christmas plumbers |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Helmut Krätzig |
| script | Peter Graetz |
| production | Television of the GDR |
| music | Karl-Ernst Sasse |
| camera | Winfried Kleist |
| cut | Renate Mueller |
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The Christmas Plumber is a comedy of the television of the GDR based on the script by Peter Graetz and directed by Helmut Krätzig from 1986 . It was broadcast for the first time on GDR television at Christmas on December 23, 1986 and was later repeated on television every year for the Christmas holidays until the post-reunification years . Ulrich Thein received the GDR film award "Golden Laurel" in 1987 for his outstanding acting performance in the role of the plumber Martin.
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The Berlin plumber Frank and Martin have Christmas Eve readiness during repair quick service of KWV Berlin. The 45-year-old Martin has been a widower since a car accident caused by a drunk and has grown apart with his grown-up son and his family and his in-laws. He therefore voluntarily takes on the on-call duty because he does not want to spend Christmas Eve alone at home. The younger Frank only does this out of a bond with his team man and “because Christmas is normally nothing going on anyway”. This ensures that there is a dispute with his heavily pregnant partner Regina.
When the two craftsmen are called to work, Frank says goodbye to Regina with great reluctance. The plumbers spend a turbulent night together in a wide variety of situations. They drive across Christmassy Berlin with their barkas . They are accompanied by radio by the shift supervisor Albert, who calls them both to the missions. On the way to the first job with the Schieler family, where, to the annoyance of the plumbers, you are only supposed to repair a cistern that has been defective for weeks, you almost run over a Santa Claus suddenly standing on the street .
While Frank and Martin are already on their way home, Regina is already taking a taxi to the hospital with the onset of labor, where Frank, who hurries behind, is not admitted by a resolute nurse. Completely frustrated about this, he waits with Martin in the emergency car outside the hospital. Albert finally sends both of them to the Bartsch family on the third floor, an older couple who have been married for 37 years. The two craftsmen repair the broken pipe and in addition to coffee and stollen , Frank, who does not want to tie himself tight, also receives a few wisdoms about married life from Ms. Bartsch. Meanwhile, Martin steps in as Santa Claus for the neighboring family and Frank finds out from Albert over the phone that he has meanwhile become a father.
Back on tour, Martin notices an obviously drunk man who wants to get into a car. Martin, who is reminded of the death of his wife, intervenes and keeps the man from the car. Frank calls the police by radio because he fears that Martin will get angry. When the officers arrive and want to arrest the drunk, it turns out that the drunk thought the car was a taxi that he wanted to get into.
The last job of the evening before the end of the shift at 10:00 p.m. brings her to the single young Rita, who lives with her seven-month-old baby in a half-shell Reko apartment. Frank accuses the young mother of negligence in relation to her child, but Martin notices that the spartan interior is otherwise clean and tidy and that the child is doing well under the circumstances. Only the mother is a little overwhelmed with the situation: the bathroom is completely flooded by a blockage in the sewer pipe caused by the arrogant and uncomprehending neighbor, Ms. Müller, who lives above it. To make matters worse, the main valve in Rita's basement is inaccessible due to a large pile of coal . Frank doesn't want to help the young woman until the pile of coal has been cleared and come back later. Martin, however, decides to put the coal aside with the young woman and to repair the damage immediately. In the meantime, Frank gets to know the joys of fatherhood when he looks after Rita's baby a little awkwardly and the diaper is full.
While Ms. Müller realizes her mistake and Martin and Rita are slowly getting closer, Frank realizes that he wants to marry Regina. Albert has meanwhile informed him that he was able to convince the nurse to let the young father with his girlfriend and the newborn. Frank then goes alone to the hospital to see Regina and his daughter and announces his marriage to the overjoyed Regina. Meanwhile, Martin improvises some Christmas decorations in Rita's kitchen, she makes tea for him and they celebrate Christmas.
At the end you see Frank whistling and singing happily on the way back to Rita and Martin, with whom he would like to toast his fatherhood .
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Ulrich Thein received in 1987 for his outstanding acting performance in the role of the plumber Martin, in which he "proves Berlin's Schnoddrig, down-to-earth and amiability" ( Ines Walk : Ulrich Thein's biography on www.film-zeit.de), the GDR film award "Golden Laurel".
Web links
- The Weihnachtsklempner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Christmas plumbers at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "The Christmas Plumbers" on www.new-video.de
- ↑ Ulrich Thein's biography on www.film-zeit.de by Ines Walk ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ulrich Thein on the DEFA Foundation's homepage ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
