Story of a Love (1978)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Story of a love |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 58 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dagmar Damek |
| script | Dagmar Damek |
| production | Siegfried B. Glökler (production manager), Manfred Korytowski (production) |
| music | Fred Wasiela (music consultant) |
| camera | Klaus König , Michael Thiele |
| cut | Ingrid Wolff, Karin Haban |
| occupation | |
u. v. a. | |
Story of a love is a German television film from 1978 in which the director and screenwriter Dagmar Damek wrote the story April. The story of a love from Joseph Roth adapted.
action
A writer comes to a small town and observes the habits and ways of life of the people. Anna works in the hotel where he lives. She has a child from a man who left her there. Anna and the writer begin a love affair. On his part, however, the feelings are not strong enough for a permanent bond.
He spots a girl at a window and keeps greeting her until she starts smiling back. He falls in love with this girl without ever having spoken to her. When he learns that she is the postmaster's daughter, he starts a conversation with the postmaster under a pretext, but does not bring the conversation to the daughter, which in retrospect he sees as a missed opportunity. He wants to leave, he pretends to Anna that he wants to come back soon. Anna now knows about his fascination with the girl at the window and tells him that she is very ill, consumptive and will soon die. Now there is nothing to keep him in that place: he believes he would waste his life if he stayed longer and wants to take his life back into his hands. As he is about to leave by train, he sees the girl standing on the platform with a railway official and looking after him. She is obviously healthy, not consumptive, and the railway official's wife or fiancée.
production
The film was directed by the Infafilm in Munich for the series The literary narrative film commissioned by the Bavarian Radio rotated, and on August 2, 1978 the first time in BR television broadcast, in 1981 he ran in the preliminary program of the ARD .
reception
“It's one of those melancholy, lethargic stories that the Munich filmmaker Dagmar Damek has been cultivating for several years now. The characters Dagmar Damek is interested in are prisoners of themselves, their past or their dreams; Sufferers unable to come into harmony with reality. [...] The most beautiful and most tense was the fragility of this fleeting relationship illustrated in the wordlessly playful, desperately comical dance scene at the center of the story. "
“Dagmar Damek carefully put the melancholy story of Joseph Roth in the picture. She conjured up moods, sketched human reactions. "
Web links
- A Love Story in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Story of a love on YouTube