I love you - April! April!

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Movie
Original title I love you - April! April!
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1988
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Iris Gusner
script Iris Gusner
production DEFA , KAG Babelsberg
music Siegfried Schäfer
camera Peter Brand
cut Karin Kusche
occupation

I love you - April! April! is a DEFA feature film by Iris Gusner from 1988 based on the play of the same name by Jochen Kramer.

action

The law student Caroline is stricken with exam anxiety and therefore misses her appointment. When she arrives at Professor Stein's, he no longer has time to examine her and delegates this task to Bertram Schneider, to whom he recently presented the certificate of appointment to professor. He in turn delegates this task to his scientific assistant Tom, due to a private appointment. What he does not know is that Tom and Caroline are a married couple and Tom had not yet told him because Professor Schneider, as a family lawyer, rejects the concept of marriage out of conviction. But even Caroline's mother, the lawyer Hella, is not informed, because since she was divorced from Caroline's father twenty years ago, she generally no longer trusts the men.

By chance, one of the case studies that Caroline gets to work through is her parents' divorce decree and she realizes that Bertram Schneider and her mother were once married and that the professor is her father, which she did not know before. Now, of course, she tries to convince both of them to finally clarify the family situation. What she achieves is that the two get close again and find that they are still in love.

But there are also problems between Caroline and Tom because she is pregnant. Tom is very angry that Caroline only tells him this after she has already received confirmation from the doctor and, besides, there was no agreement to have a child so early. But in the end everything will be fine, because Caroline doesn't want to make the same mistake as her parents and to split up hastily.

production

Some outdoor shots were taken at the Nikolaiviertel and at the Humboldt University . Iris Gusner and Jochen Kramer, who already wrote the literary model, were responsible for the scenario. The dramaturgy was in the hands of Erika Richter .

The DEFA studio for feature films (Artistic Working Group “Babelsberg”) shot I love you - April! April! on ORWO -Color. The first public screening of the film took place at the 5th  National Feature Film Festival of the GDR (May 11-14, 1988) in Karl-Marx-Stadt ; the film had its official premiere on June 2nd, 1988 at the East Berlin Kino International .

criticism

Detlef Friedrich found in the Berliner Zeitung that this is a tricky business, because this lively, puffy, not too cheerful “cheerful contemporary film” seemed like a rough April Fool's joke.

For Helmut Ullrich it was a poor story in the New Age and an unconvincing staging with flat figures. As a result, DEFA once again crash-landed in their efforts to promote the cheerful genre.

For the lexicon of international film this film is a failed comedy attempt full of clichés and without a hint of humor.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 10, 1988, p. 6
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 3, 1988, p. 1
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 7, 1988, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Neue Zeit of June 7, 1988, p. 4
  5. ↑ I love you - April! April! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used