Green wedding

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Movie
Original title Green wedding
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1989
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Herrmann Zschoche
script Christa Kozik
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Günther Fischer
camera Günter Jaeuthe
cut Monika Schindler
occupation

Green Wedding is a German feature film by Herrmann Zschoche from 1989. The title alludes to the colloquial Green Wedding , the day of the wedding .

action

Susanne and Robert are a couple, watch Seven Freckles in love in the cinema and spend the day finding a love nest in a friend's apartment, if only for an hour. She is 17 and works in a factory; 18-year-old Robert plans to make his master as a construction worker. Susanne becomes pregnant unplanned and wants to have her child. Susanne and Robert get married and move into a converted apartment - a completely dilapidated apartment in an old Art Nouveau villa that both have to fix. Constant renovation work when there is a shortage of materials and a lack of money determine the first weeks of the marriage. When Susanne surprisingly gives birth to twins for Robert , whom she calls Romeo and Juliet, her life planning has to be changed again.

The common young marital happiness does not last long. Susanne, exhausted from housework and childcare, only wants to watch TV in the evening while Robert earns money. During the day he works as an apprentice for a carpenter, in the evening he drives black cabs and at night studies for his master craftsman's examination. Both no longer lead a life together, but increasingly meet with mutual reproaches. Robert wants his freedom back and moves to Mannequin Jeanine. Susanne receives help from her good friend Paul. He tells her that he has loved her for a long time, but Susanne soon realizes that she cannot forget Robert. Paul wants to remain their friend, but withdraws from their life together. When a lot of things come together one day - Susanne loses her wallet , the apartment is under water after a line damage, the children are screaming and no one stands by her side - Susanne smashes a door window and cuts a wrist artery . A little later Robert finds the half-passed out Susanne. He has left Jeanine and wants to give his marriage a second chance.

production

Green Wedding was filmed in 1988 and had its premiere on May 26, 1989 in the Prisma in Halle-Neustadt . After interventions by officials, the main administration ordered Film to remove the sentence: "Policemen are like chives, green on the outside and hollow on the inside" from all copies.

Green Wedding was viewed by critics and viewers as an indirect sequel to the movie Seven Freckles . The film will be shown in the cinema at the beginning of Green Wedding and the couple Susanne and Robert (in Seven Freckles Karoline and Robbi) met and fell in love at a holiday camp a few years ago. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet plays an important role in both films . While the play in Seven Freckles is performed by the children at the end and Karoline and Robbi take on the leading roles, Susanne and Robert call their children Romeo and Juliet. In one scene, Robert lies drunk on a grave and states that it is Juliet's grave on which he is lying. In another scene, Susanne reads Juliet's last words when she sees the dead Romeo next to her.

criticism

Contemporary critics wrote that the film looked like life itself. “To survive, they say, is an art, but art is not. Christa Kożik develops the line of conflict as if from the sociological construction kit, the small banalities rise to an uncontrolled crisis, he cheats, she cheats, suicide attempt, rescue, hope, one question at the end, the discussion is open. ”Other critics said, that the film oscillates "between realism and cinema".

The film-dienst said: “The plea for a long-term partnership, combined with the warning against hasty decisions, is very concerned with social accuracy; however, it lacks artistic density and exaggeration. "

Cinema wrote that the film was "mixed: partly critical, partly kitschy".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ F.-B. Habel: Cut up films. Censorship in the film . Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-37801069-X , p. 49
  2. ↑ FB Habel: Das große Lexikon der DEFA-Spielfilme , p. 221.
  3. ↑ Henryk Goldberg: A lesson from love. "Green Wedding" . In: Filmspiegel , No. 13, 1989, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Heinz Kersten: Between Realism and Kintopp . In: Tagesspiegel , June 25, 1989.
  5. ↑ Green wedding. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ See cinema.de