An old model

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Movie
Original title An old model
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1976
length 70 minutes
Rod
Director Ulrich Thein
script Ulrich Thein
Hartwig Strobel
Joachim Nowotny
production Television of the GDR
camera Hartwig Strobel
cut Edith Kaluza
Cornelia Klein
Barbara Götsch
occupation

An old model is a German television film by Ulrich Thein from 1976 .

action

Bruno Nakonz lives in the village with his wife Frieda. He rarely comes to town, but progress does not stop at the village either. Much to Bruno’s displeasure, his house is now supplied with water via modern pipes. Since the changeover a few hours ago, however, the water has been cloudy and Bruno wants to complain in the city that he is no longer allowed to use his well water, especially since he himself built the well once. Frieda also points out to Bruno that the ten-year-old electric coffee grinder has suddenly stopped working. Bruno wants to have it repaired in the village's electrical shop, but the saleswoman would only send the mill to town for repairs. Irritated and indignant that he shouldn't leave the shop with the repaired mill, but only with a pick-up slip, Bruno goes into town himself.

The truck driver Franz Robel takes him to a factory and from there he drives the last bit into town in the car of his friend Zilias. The electronics store he is familiar with has been a flower shop for a long time, while a shop for buying and selling electrical goods is currently on lunch break. In a café, Bruno is served unfriendly at first because he asks for a beer, but there is no beer in the café. Bruno also has major problems with the modern traffic light system. In the end he waits on a park bench for the lunch break to pass, but falls asleep and does not wake up until late afternoon. A young man, whose father turns out to be an electrician, sits on a park bench opposite. Electrician Schulz, however, waves it aside when Bruno visits him. He has to study for his distance learning and people constantly want him to fix things for them. He only looks at Bruno's coffee grinder for a moment and then advises Bruno to throw the machine away and buy a new one, which is cheaper than repairs.

Bruno returns to his village defeated. He sits down briefly in the station bar, where he himself refuses the beer offered by Franz, the knowledge of his own being overtaken also sits too deep. Franz and the landlord are worried and ask the precision mechanic Antek to stop by Bruno on his way home. Bruno resignedly puts the old coffee grinder on the curb and Antek almost falls over it on his bike. He brings Bruno the mill afterwards. Bruno, in turn, pretends to have lost her. He explains to Antek that the old model is broken and should therefore be disposed of, but Antek manages to unscrew the grinder and fasten a loose wire under a lantern with simple hand movements. The mill works again. On his return Frieda tells him that the water is also clear again after letting it run for the day.

production

The film premiered on GDR television on December 27, 1976, and thus on the 70th birthday of the main actor Erwin Geschonneck . On January 2, 2007, the film ran for the first time on MDR on German television.

The film structures were created by Joachim Bober , the costumes were made by Ingeborg Hanke and Margit Schaumäker was responsible for the dramaturgy .

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