An unusual day

Movie
Original title	An unusual day
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1959
length	30 minutes
Rod
Director	Bärbl miner
script	Bärbl miner
production	DEFA
music	Joachim Werzlau
camera	Erwin Anders
cut	Ursula Zweig
occupation
Daniela Gerstner : Maja Ostara Körner : mother Horst Kube : Father Alexander Papendiek : teacher Horst Buder : window cleaner Gustav Müller : Baker Max Klingberg : Shoemaker Georg Helge : Bottle dealer Katharina Matz : ice cream seller Walter E. Fuß : Trolleybus driver Johanna Zschokke : Conductor Heinz Draehn : 1. Gully worker Fritz-Ernst Fechner : 2nd gully worker

An unusual day is a German children's film by Bärbl Bergmann from 1959. The film, shot under the working title Ohne Fleiß, No Prize , was released on March 27, 1959. Leading actress Daniela Gerstner later became known as a writer under the name Daniela Dahn .

action

Maja is actually a good student. But one day she didn't do her homework. In front of the teacher, she says that she simply didn't feel like doing schoolwork. The teacher then stands up in front of the entire class and ends the lesson. Suddenly he doesn't feel like teaching either, he says. The students are delighted and congratulate Maja on her reluctance to do homework.

Maja comes home earlier now and tells her mother why the lessons have been canceled. The mother, too, now pretends not to want to prepare lunch and leaves the apartment. Every adult Maja encounters does not fulfill her wishes and requests out of sudden listlessness: the baker does not sell her a cake, the ice cream seller does not sell ice cream, the shoemaker does not repair her sandal and the recyclables dealer does not accept her bottles.

When the bus driver suddenly lets all the passengers out again and the father cannot come home from work, Maja rushes home. She begins to do her homework and writes down what people actually do who didn't feel like doing anything today. And in fact the mother begins to prepare lunch and the ice cream seller is selling ice cream again. In the end, the father comes home on time and Maja promises him that she will always do her homework in the future. She also promises the teacher, even if she doesn't feel like it.

The film documents the educational pressure to socialize during the early days of the GDR.

criticism

Frank-Burkhard Habel called An Unusual Day a "little film about a child raised by the collective."

literature

• F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 731 .

Web links

• An unusual day at filmportal.de
• An unusual day at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 731 .