Entry into paradise

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Movie
Original title Entry into paradise
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1987
Rod
Director Achim Huebner
Wolfgang Huebner
script Achim Huebner
Wolfgang Huebner
production Television of the GDR
music Peter Gotthardt
camera Kurt Bobek
Werner Helbig
cut Gerti Gruner
Susanne Carpentier
occupation

Einzug ins Paradies is a six-part television series of the television of the GDR from 1983, which was only broadcast in 1987. It was based on the novel by Hans Weber .

action

New tenants are moving into a newly constructed prefabricated building in Berlin-Marzahn . The balconies of the apartments are not yet separated and the new neighbors are quickly getting closer. The stories of five families are told in the first six days after the move. A day is told in each episode.

background

Moving into Paradise was conceived as a representative series about the housing construction program in the GDR and planned on the occasion of the 34th anniversary (1983) of the founding of the GDR. The literary basis for the project was the book of the same name by Hans Weber. In his novel, the writer does not primarily deal with the GDR housing program, but rather depicts the development of people (here 5 families), under good, previously unexperienced living conditions.

Since only a short production period (April to September 1983) was available for the originally planned 7 parts of 90 minutes each and the announced broadcast date should be kept in any case, two complete production teams or torsion bars were commissioned to realize the ambitious literature . The brothers Achim and Wolfgang Huebner acted as directors - at their side the cameramen Kurt Bobek and Werner Helbig.

Both torsion bars - a production-related peculiarity - did not produce self-contained parts as is usual, but followed the dramaturgical development of 2 or 3 families and then linked the results of their work to 6 parts. The shooting took place in Berlin-Marzahn in a newly built high-rise building on two floors specially prepared for it. It was shot in parallel.

The actor ensemble was made up of nationally and internationally known actors from the GDR. However, too many problems and taboos in the GDR were addressed in the series for those responsible for the media, so that the series was initially not broadcast.

After some parts of the plot were changed, after protests from members of artistic associations (Writers' Association, Association of Film and Television Workers), forced through conversations and discussions between the directors and those in charge of the media, in which Erich Honecker was also involved, the parts were shown on television four years later of the GDR on August 21, 1987. The artistic representatives of both production teams received the critics award in 1988.

Even the West German television ARD broadcast in the summer of 1989, before the fall of the Wall , the series in prime time.

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