Marriage matter Lorenz

Movie
Original title	Marriage matter Lorenz
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1959
length	78 minutes
Rod
Director	Joachim Kunert
script	Berta Waterstradt
production	DEFA
music	Andre Asriel
camera	Günter Marczinkowsky
cut	Hildegard Conrad
occupation
Manja Behrens : Trude Lorenz Martin Flörchinger : Willi Lorenz Albert Garbe : Albert Schliffke Mathilde Danegger : Lieschen Schliffke Gerlind Ahnert : Helga Ritter Lilly jewelry : Gitta Lorenz Ulrich Thein : Peter Fischer Charlotte Küter : Mother Fischer Antje Ruge : Elli Lemke Rudolf Ulrich : Kurt Lemke Amy Frank : Mrs. Lehmann Kurt Steingraf : Manager Lamprecht Marga Legal : Alderman Cavalier Peter A. Stiege : Alderman Müller Charlotte Brummerhoff : Secretary Herbert Köfer : Sales point manager Ruth Maria Kubitschek : Defendants Werner Lierck : Defendant Gustav Müller : Plaintiff Hans Klering : Hotel porter

Marriage issue Lorenz is a German DEFA feature film by Joachim Kunert from 1959 based on the play of the same name by Berta Waterstradt .

action

Trude Lorenz has to do with broken marriages every day as a people's judge . Her husband Willi works as a department manager in a company that makes cranes. The two have been happily married for 24 years. At least that is what her daughter Gitta, who is engaged to Peter, a lover of classical music, believes. In reality, Willi has had a relationship with his 22-year-old secretary Helga for six months. This is not only noticed by his driver Schliffke, but also by other colleagues and a judge of the court, who opens Ms. Lorenz's eyes in a conversation. After Helga asks Frau Lorenz to release her husband, because, according to Willis, there has been no love between the two for many years, the matter takes on serious features. It turns out that Willi cheated on both women because he never intended to enter into a committed relationship with Helga.

Events are now overturning. Gitta learns that she is expecting a child from Peter. After a lengthy discussion with his driver, Willi tries to save his marriage again. Helga is offered a new job in another company and Trude realizes that their marriage is not yet completely broken. So there is no “Lorenz divorce case”.

production

Marriage case Lorenz was shot in black and white and had its premiere on August 28, 1959 in the Colosseum cinema in Berlin . It was first broadcast on German television on February 26, 1960.

criticism

Valentin Lupescu found in the Berliner Zeitung that this film draws people like you and me, with apt humorous language of the people and a lot of truths that apply to everyone. He does not bring any obvious cheap moral dribbling, no caricature distortion and no superfluous comment.

Horst Knietzsch from New Germany summed it up in one sentence in his review: “All that remains to be said is: Recommend“ Marriage matter Lorenz ”to your neighbors too!"

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film offers above-average, cheerful and thoughtful entertainment in style and statement. The acting is excellent.

literature

• F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 129-130 .

Web links

• Marriage thing Lorenz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marriage case Lorenz at filmportal.de
• Lorenz marriage case at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Times of February 26, 1960
2. ^ "Lorenz marriage matter" in the film in the Berliner Zeitung of September 2, 1959, p. 6
3. ^ Husband on crooked tours in New Germany, August 31, 1959, p. 3
4. ↑ Marriage case Lorenz. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .