A Chilean wedding
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A Chilean wedding |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 8 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Rainer Ackermann Valentin Milanow |
| production | DEFA , KAG Specifically |
| camera |
Eberhard Geick Karl Farber |
| cut | Werner Wendt |
A Chilean Wedding is a documentary film by the DEFA studio for documentaries by Rainer Ackermann and Valentin Milanow from 1979 .
action
A Chilean student couple who found themselves in asylum in the GDR because of the coup by the fascist junta in Chile , got married here in 1977. The wedding celebration takes place in a simply furnished prefabricated apartment and is similar to German weddings. There is dancing, drinking and singing. Here, too, the bride throws the bridal bouquet behind her so that it can be picked up by an unmarried girl.
But in the conversations the memory of interrogations and torture during the Pinochet dictatorship and the fear for the friends and relatives left behind come to the fore. The bride shows pictures from her studies in Chile and says that after her arrest she spent a month in a torture house and three months in a concentration camp before she had to leave Chile. She met her current husband in the GDR.
A visitor said that her husband disappeared in Chile and that she still doesn't know where he is. Another young man reports that he was arrested by the junta in 1973 and subsequently shot. In any case, he was thought to be dead and comrades could pick him up from the street, take him to a polyclinic and then to a hospital. From there, with the help of his comrades, he came to the French embassy , where he received a visa and was able to travel to France . He now wants to start studying in the GDR.
The young couple, she is studying veterinary medicine , he is going to be a teacher of Marxism-Leninism , after completing his studies, wants to go to a country where they are needed - Angola , Mozambique or Cuba .
production
The shooting of this black and white film took place in 1977 and the world premiere took place on May 16, 1979.
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Ursula Demitter .