Hilde, the maid

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Movie
Original title Hilde, the maid
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1986
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Günther Rücker ,
Jürgen Brauer
script Jürgen Brauer
production DEFA , KAG Berlin
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Jürgen Brauer
cut Helga Gentz
occupation

Hilde, the maid is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Günther Rücker and Jürgen Brauer from 1986 based on the story of the same name by Günther Rücker.

action

In 1938 Hilde decides to move from Germany to the Czechoslovak town of Reichenberg to be closer to her friend Erich, who lives there in illegality and is involved in the resistance against German fascism . In Reichenberg, the small Bohemian town near the border, mostly Germans live, most of whom would like to join the German Empire . Hilde has to recognize this very quickly, since the supporters of the Henlein fascists express this will by lighting the windows with candles all over the city. She finds a job as a maid for a German carpenter, but above all wants to meet her lover again. When they first meet, it is not quite clear to him whether Hilde should not just spy on him. Hilde and Erich meet in hidden places, in a mountain hut and in lonely nature, secretly watched by Peter, the carpenter's adolescent son. He is musically inclined, receives violin lessons and has nothing in mind with the fascist ideas of the Germans in the city, since his parents belong to the free thinkers . But his mother joined the Henlein people a long time ago without her husband's knowledge, in order to avoid possible persecution.

Erich and his resistance group are discovered by a traitor and shot. In the past, Hilde has built up a relationship of trust with the carpenter's son and now turns to him to let him in on the secrets of love.

production

Hilde the maid was filmed on ORWO color by the artistic working group "Berlin" with the support of the Czechoslovak film studio Barrandov and had its world premiere on the occasion of the opening of the 4th GDR National Feature Film Festival on May 21, 1986 in the town hall of Karl-Marx-Stadt . The Berlin premiere took place on September 2, 1986 in the Berlin Kino International and on September 5, the start for the other cinemas in the GDR. The film was shown on June 21, 1988 in the second program of GDR television .

The scenario comes from Günther Rückert and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Jürgen Brauer.

criticism

Günter Sobe writes in the Berliner Zeitung that the film is by no means an everyday cinematic attempt to come to terms with contemporary history and to expand it from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old. The actual dramatic showpiece is, and probably not quite in the spirit of the inventor, to be attributed to Wilfried Scheutz from Vienna in his role as Netschasek. He “weanert” himself with his little stories so curiously-smeary-elegant in the center of interest that listening to him and watching is on the one hand a pleasure, which in turn gives the role more weight than it deserves.

In the New Era , Helmut Ullrich finds a close look at the modest life of small people in a small town well taken. A narrow but intact world with petty-bourgeois attitudes. A world in which little moves, in which the big world remains outside.

The lexicon of international film calls the film atmospherically sensitive, but dramaturgically blurred and not well structured.

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  1. ↑ Neue Zeit of May 17, 1986, p. 15
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland from August 22, 1986, p. 7
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 3, 1986, p. 7
  4. ↑ Neue Zeit of September 3, 1986, p. 4
  5. ↑ Hilde, the maid. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Neue Zeit of July 18, 1986, p. 2