First loss

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Movie
Original title First loss
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1990
length 102 minutes
Rod
Director Maxim Dessau
script Peter Badel
Maxim Dessau
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Peter Badel
cut Dorothea Brühl
occupation

The first loss is a DEFA feature film by Maxim Dessau from 1990 based on motifs from the 1956 story “ Die Frau am Panger ” by Brigitte Reimann .

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In the middle of World War II, farmer Heinrich Marten was drafted into the Wehrmacht in a small German village. His sister Frieda and his wife Kathrin are left alone on the farm. After a short time, they realize that the work they have to do is impossible. When Soviet prisoners of war are assigned to the farms in the village, they apply for one even though they had not previously made an application. With the help of the local farmer leader Otto Lange, who has an interest in Frieda, they get the Russian Alexej. This is emaciated and must first be nursed by the women. Alexej arouses envy among his fellow prisoners because he is visibly better fed than the others. They force him to steal food for the soldiers who are not so well fed. When that is discovered, he will be punished for it. When they work together in the fields and on the farm, Kathrin and Frieda inevitably get closer to the Russian. A love affair is developing between Kathrin and Alexej. In the laundry room there is contact and Kathrin frees her upper body. At that moment the couple is discovered by a guard and Alexei flees. When the search was initiated immediately, a group of the Hitler Youth arrested him and led him away.

production

The first loss was shot in black and white by DEFA-Studio for feature films (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (artistic working group “Johannisthal”) and by DEFA-Studio Babelsberg GmbH (Potsdam-Babelsberg). The world premiere took place on October 6, 1990 in the new FELIX PROGRESS Clubkino in Berlin, which was opened in the Palais am Festungsgraben .

criticism

In the Berliner Zeitung Maxim Dessau was certified by Günter Sobe that he was a talented director.

Michael Hanisch wrote in the Neue Zeit : “First Loss is a pleasantly quiet film, a film for viewers who have the time and desire to get involved in a completely unspectacular language. The German of this story is deliberately emphasized. The beauty of a German landscape, the idyll of a peaceful landscape in contrast to the cruelty of the times. Dessau and his cameraman Peter Badel succeed in creating some very strong images when drawing these contrasts. The shadows wandering over the fields, the smell of fresh laundry bleached in the meadow, the sound of the water ... "

The lexicon of the international film wrote: “The initially hostile attitude develops into human closeness, which culminates in the love between the peasant woman and the farmhand, which leads to disaster. DEFA film about the endangerment of humans in inhuman times, told in calm black and white pictures. Intense cinema with which director Maxim Dessau was able to introduce himself to a larger audience for the first time after his forbidden and canceled debut film 'Schnauzer' (1984). "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 29, 1990, p .: 16
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 8, 1990, p: 4
  3. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 9, 1990, pp. 12
  4. ↑ First loss. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used