Hot summer (movie)
Hot Summer is the title of a comedic music film produced by the DEFA studio for feature films, “Gruppe Johannisthal” , from 1968. It was - in terms of audience numbers - one of the most successful films in the GDR.
action
When hitchhiking north, the paths of eleven high school students from Leipzig and ten high school students from Karl-Marx-Stadt cross again and again . After all, they all end up in a small village on the Baltic Sea . The groups play tricks on each other again and again, and the first love affairs are not long in coming.
background
The film was shot in East Berlin , Leipzig , Greifswald (Wieck) and on Rügen and Usedom . It premiered on June 21, 1968 on the Rostock open-air theater and was shown in GDR cinemas on June 28, 1968.
In addition to Frank Schöbel and Chris Doerk , Gerti Möller , who took over the vocal passages for Regine Albrecht , and Ingo Graf in the vocal passages for Hanns-Michael Schmidt also sing in the film . The lyrics are from Jürgen Degenhardt and Hartmut König . The songs are musically accompanied by the Berliner Rundfunk dance orchestra under the direction of Günter Gollasch .
In 2003 the film was released on DVD and classified by the FSK as "approved for ages 0+" .
Film music
In 1968 the film music appeared on AMIGA (AMIGA 8 55 099) under the title of the same name "Hot Summer".
page 1
- Hot summer
- That can not be true
- Men who aren't yet
- We
- Dance on the beach
- How do you know who I am
Page 2
- To experience something
- A summer song
- Catch the sunbeam - Frank Schöbel with Gerti Möller
- I found the one
- Once upon a time there was a girl - Ingo Graf
- Once there must be an end
- Finale "Hot Summer"
Re-performance
In 2005 the musical experienced a return as a stage play at the Rostock Volkstheater . The version was written by Axel Poike with the composers Gerd Natschinski and Thomas Natschinski and Thomas Bürkholz as musical director. From July 12, 2009 to August 9, 2009, a newly arranged stage version was performed on the regatta route Berlin-Grünau under the direction of Wolfgang Bordel .
criticism
- Lexicon of the international film : “The experiences of high school students during their holiday stay on the Baltic Sea serve as a thin thread for sometimes somewhat naive music and dance interludes. Prominent with the pop stars Chris Doerk and Frank Schöbel, the cheerful, non-binding summer story, which propagates a community spirit and rejects selfish attitudes, has become a cult film. "
- Renate Holland-Moritz , Die Eule im Kino , 1981: "The poor skeleton seems to have been conceived by Maurycy Janowski primarily as occupational therapy for a group of young beginners."
popularity
In May 2016, the regional daily newspaper Freie Presse published the results of the survey for the most popular DEFA film of all time, and the cinema success Hot Summer was voted first by the readers.
Web links
- Hot summer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hot summer at Filmportal.de
- Film music at discogs
- Hot summer at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Filmography of the artistic work group "Johannisthal" , on the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ The most successful films in the GDR , on insidekino.com with audience numbers
- ↑ Hot summer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Free press survey: 1st place: "Hot Summer". Chris Doerk as Stupsi and Frank Schöbel as Kai in the flick that was panned by critics and loved by the audience.