Just flowers on the roof

Movie
Original title	Just flowers on the roof
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1979
length	91 minutes
Rod
Director	Roland Oehme
script	Roland Oehme Rudi Strahl (scenario) Anne Pfeuffer (dramaturgy)
production	DEFA studio for feature films, KAG "Berlin"
music	Hans Jürgen Wenzel Schubert formation
camera	Jürgen Lenz
cut	Helga Emmrich
occupation
Martin Trettau : Hannes Blaschke Barbara Dittus : Maxi Blaschke Lars Jung : Uwe Blaschke Carl Heinz Choynski : Jochen Müller Werner Godemann : Kurt Klawohn Jaecki Schwarz : Son Schilling Albert Hetterle : Minister Marianne Wünscher : Speaker Thomas Neumann : Sergeant Scheibchen Carmen-Maja Antoni : Elfi Müller Hannjo Hasse : DHZ director Achim Wolff : Head of Reception "Neptune" Paul Arenkens : intellectual master craftsman Madeleine Lierck : Mrs. Münzberg Harald Engelmann : Mr. Münzberg Ernst-Georg Schwill : Driver of the Minister Werner Lierck : Senior People's Policeman Birgit Raatz : Nicoletta Willi Schrade : Second Lieutenant NVA Peter Sturm : porter small town hotel Willi Neuenhahn : LPG chairman Heinz Hellmich : DHZ seller Gertrud Brendler : Grandma Kowalski Werner Kamenik : Grandpa Kowalski Gertraut Last : advertising clerk Ellis Heiden : old Berliner with dog Günter Falkenau : Long man from the circle Werner Riemann : Man from the circle Klaus Tilsner : man from the circle Margrit Bösel : flower seller Peter Heiland : Young BVGer Rosa Lotze : Saxon mother Wolfram Handel : Saxon father Peter Thomsen : Young man Karl Heinz Oppel : Distinguished gentleman Erich Mirek : ambassador of a monarchy Pedro Hebenstreit : Guest at the embassy Horst Giese : Guest at the embassy Horst Torka : host of the culture house Sina Fiedler : Young woman on the village radio Franz Viehmann : Major VP Manfred Borges : Head of Department

Simply Flowers on the Roof is a comedic GDR contemporary film from 1979 about a Berlin working class family who buys a used, but representative car. The DEFA production was voted best comedy of the year by the GDR film critics.

action

The Berlin-based Blaschke family has twins, making them six. The family Trabi is now much too small. Father Hannes, a trained high-voltage fitter, and his brigade colleagues at VEB Maschinen- und Materialreserven find a decommissioned GAZ-13 Tschaika representative car . The black luxury sedan, which previously served major political figures, is purchased for Ost-Mark per kilogram.

The former state coach gives its new owner unexpected honors: People armed forces standing at attention, pioneer groups, invitations to cocktail receptions. While his wife Maxi sees the state car merely as a useful means of transportation, the actually modest Hannes annoys his colleagues with his new airs. They also give him an effective lesson by “simply painting flowers on the roof”.

Ms. Blaschke is a bus driver by profession and can therefore handle large vehicles, while the trot driver Hannes has a very difficult time. The question of whether normal people are allowed to drive such a state car at all occupies politicians up to the responsible minister and is then quickly decided by his secretary.

background

Director Roland Oehme and screenwriter Rudi Strahl needed five years for the planning and because of the forced changes for the production of the film, when it came into the cinemas, the party officials had already converted to the car brand Volvo .

Simply Flowers on the Roof premiered on June 28, 1979 on the iga open-air stage in Erfurt and had its television premiere on February 13, 1984 on GDR television . The film was released on DVD on October 15, 2007 by Icestorm .

Reviews

The lexicon of international films called Simply Flowers on the Roof a "[h] pus [n] contemporary film that accurately describes the situation in the GDR and deals with the attitudes and developments of its citizens", and further described the film as "[g ] Excellent entertainment. ”According to Cinema , the film offers“ cheerful insights into everyday life in the GDR ”

Awards

In 1979, director Oehme received the award of the GDR film criticism Grosse Klappe for the best comedy.

literature

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

Web links

• Simple flowers on the roof in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Simply put flowers on the roof at filmportal.de
• Simply put flowers on the roof at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Just flowers on the roof. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ cf. cinema.de