Wedding night in the rain

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Movie
Original title Wedding night in the rain
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1967
length 105 minutes
Rod
Director Horst Seemann
script Karl-Heinz Lennartz ,
Horst Seemann
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Wolfram Heicking ,
Klaus Hugo ,
Klaus Lenz ,
Thomas Natschinski ,
Gerhard Siebholz
camera Helmut Grewald
cut Erika Lehmphul
occupation

Wedding Night in the Rain is a German DEFA music film by Horst Seemann from 1967.

action

Hairdresser Gabriele, called Gabi, wants to become a jockey . She receives a jockey saddle from her friends and customers and goes to Berlin , where she hopes for a job in the Hoppegarten . The head coach of the horses there, however, does not take them seriously, as there has never been a female jockey. Gabi is now out of work and almost broke after a night in the luxury hotel “Unter den Linden”. She is looking for an apartment, but you can only get it in Berlin with a residence permit. They only exist when you have a job - a vicious circle. Without further ado, Gabi decides on the only way out: She wants to marry a Berliner with an apartment.

On the street she is suddenly approached by the moderator of a quiz show, who wants to hear a funny answer to a question in front of the camera. When Gabi explains her dilemma to him, she wins a stroller in which she can walk her jockey saddle from now on. The transmission has now made the men aware of her and she decides to marry the motorcyclist Freddy, who promises her a noble apartment in Berlin. When they get married, however, it becomes clear that he actually lives in Jena . The house in Berlin turns out to be a tent by the lake and Freddy as a normal Berlin vacationer, who also has no interest in horses.

Freddy's friends want to help the young couple and start building a wooden house on the island in the lake. Gabi does not give up her secret dream of becoming a jockey and is able to persuade the forage master from Hoppegarten to let her train three times a week. When Freddy gets behind what she is doing, the marriage is about to end. However, his friends and the forage master take the side of Gabi, who moves away from the campsite. Only when Gabi disappears does Freddy open his eyes - he loves her. He sells his motorcycle to enable Gabi to travel to Budapest for an international young horse race. There he mixes sleeping pills into his drink for a rider from the Berlin team, enabling Gabi to take part in the race in secret. Gabi wins and surprises the feed master who trained her, as well as the head coach who now accepts her as a jockey. And there is also a happy ending between Gabi and Freddy: They both get married a second time in Budapest.

production

Wedding night in the rain was Horst Seemann's first full-length directorial work and DEFA's second film musical. Pop singer Frank Schöbel's speaking parts are dubbed by Ingolf Gorges , as Seemann, who was in a relationship with leading actress Traudl Kulikowsky at the time, was jealous of Schöbel.

The film was partly shot in Budapest. It contains numerous songs that are sung by Frank Schöbel, Chris Doerk , Ruth Homann , Manfred Krug , Vera Schneidbach , Horst Krüger and the Gerd Michaelis Choir , among others:

  • It's not just you (K: Thomas Natschinski / T: Gerrit Gräfe), sung by Frank Schöbel and Team 4
  • Truth (K: Thomas Natschinski / T: Hartmut König ), sung by Frank Schöbel and Team 4

The film premiered on May 14, 1967 in the Europa-Lichtspiele in Karl-Marx-Stadt, today Chemnitz .

criticism

The contemporary criticism criticized the acting talent of Kulikowsky and noted that "the proof that the leading actress Traudl Kulikowsky can also play, [...] [was] not provided". Other critics said that the film did not live up to its own claim to present the theme of equality as a visually powerful musical: “The hectic narrative style and the forced joke spill the remarkable moments in which visual imagination and musicality urge synthesis, personal cinematic expression . "

The lexicon of international films saw on their wedding night in the rain an “attempt at a musical; despite strained imagination and stressed show values ​​rather cumbersome and without enough wit. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Habel, p. 252.
  2. ^ Renate Holland-Moritz . In: Eulenspiegel , 27, 1967.
  3. ^ Klaus Wischnewski: The second life of the film city Babelsberg . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 217.
  4. ↑ Wedding night in the rain. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 3, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used