There's a fair in heaven

Movie
Original title	There's a fair in heaven
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1969
length	81 minutes
Rod
Director	Rolf Losansky
script	Günter Mehnert Ulrich Speitel
production	DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music	Gerd Natschinski
camera	Helmut Grewald Felix Meimark jump cameraman
cut	Erika Lehmphul
occupation
Regina Beyer : Gitta Ingolf Gorges : Thomas Angelika Waller : Eva Christel Bodenstein : Isot Heidrun Polack : Barbara Gesine Rosenberg : Maria Siegfried Höchst : Hannes Günter Junghans : Ede Peter Pollatschek : Lutz Klaus Bamberg : Adam Berko Acker : Peter Bruno Carstens : watchmaker Hubert Hoelzke : Pilot Agnes Kraus : mother-in-law Ingeborg Nass : Lady of the castle Gerd E. Schäfer : Psychiatrist Eberhard Cohrs : Eberhard boat leader Georgia Kalla : twin mother Ruth Kommerell : teacher Werner Lierck : Policeman Benno Mieth : Brigadier Carl-Hermann Risse : construction workers Axel Triebel : bath attendant Eva Schäfer : voluptuous woman Gert Hänsch : Erich Karl-Ernst Sasse : violinist Horst Papke : Car driver Willi Neuenhahn : construction worker Heide Kipp : nurse Carmen Pioch : mosquito

There's a fair in heaven is a German love comedy by DEFA by Rolf Losansky from 1969.

action

Amor , the god of love, is hardworking: First he shoots an arrow at the pilot who is supposed to maneuver five young women from a ladies' drop jump team over a landing cross, thus causing utter confusion during the jump. Only one of the women ends up in the marked area and coach Hannes curses once more about his decision to train a women's team, as the big international performance comparison in Hungary is imminent. All the other women end up in the area when they jump and the blonde Gitta even ends up right on the highway in front of Thomas' truck. At first he reacts angrily, but Cupid's second arrow hits him and he falls in love with Gitta. He doesn't know anything about her, except that she is also a skydiver, and so he begins to look for her with the help of his friends Ede and Lutz.

Hannes did not miss the fact that his protégés met very different young men through the failed jump. Since he has already lost two women's teams due to couples in love and the subsequent blessings of children, he takes drastic measures. Women must swear to give their hearts to sport alone and to forego men. Since Hannes' own wife Isot is also part of the team, she reacts angrily and consistently and pulls him out of the shared bedroom. Thomas secretly receives the jumpers 'addresses through Hannes' mother-in-law. He, Ede and Lutz are now looking for all women so that Thomas finally sees his dream wife Gitta again in a watch shop. She makes it sadly clear to him that his confession of love comes a little too late because of the oath. However, Thomas does not give up and even tries as a parachutist to be close to Gitta. He ends up with her, blown away by the wind, in the Spreewald , where both are collected by Hannes.

Ede makes it clear to Thomas that the easiest way to bind Gitta to himself is to have a child together, oath or not. Thomas goes on a forest hike with Gitta and ends up in a castle with her. In the evening he goes into her room, but Gitta keeps him at a distance and slaps him when he mentions Ede and his suggestion for children. Gitta separates from Thomas and also gives up skydiving. Only now does Hannes realize that his oath idea was not a good one after all. He organizes the women of the team and Ede and Lutz, who Gitta and Thomas secretly hire as babysitters for his and Isot's children. In fact, they both reconcile. Some time later the international performance comparison in skydiving takes place in Hungary. While Gitta is in a good mood, all the other women on the team are depressed. Everyone now has a secret lover who is not there. Hannes finally has all the men brought to Hungary and the women win the competition. Gitta even sewn a wedding dress out of part of the parachute and, after landing on the spot in the competition, meets Thomas, who will lead her to the altar in tails and flowers.

production

There's a fair in heaven was filmed in 1968 under the working title Spring, if you can . The costumes created Barbara Müller , the Filmbauten come from Hans-Jörg Mirr . The film premiered on April 17, 1969 in the Berlin cosmos and was shown in GDR cinemas the following day. DFF 2 showed the film for the first time on October 7, 1970 on GDR television.

criticism

Renate Holland-Moritz slashed the film, the script of which "belongs in one of the beautiful, big Babelsberg wastepaper baskets"; the film lacks the fable and it is amateurish in terms of dramaturgy and craftsmanship. Even Frank-Burkhard Habel criticized the fact that the film is no "viable fable" have and was just average so despite beautiful aerial photography and "sympathetic [r] occupation." For the film-dienst it was a "film that was desperately trying to be amusing and without artistic value."

literature

• There's a fair in heaven . In: F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 266-267.

Web links

• In heaven, but fair is in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• There's a fair in heaven at filmportal.de
• There's a fair in heaven at the DEFA Foundation
• There's a fair in heaven - full film in German on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ There's a fair in heaven on defa.de.
2. ↑ Renate Holland-Moritz: There's a fair in heaven . In: Eulenspiegel , No. 21, 1969. Reprinted in Renate Holland-Moritz: The owl in the cinema. Movie reviews . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1981, pp. 60-61.
3. ↑ There's a fair in heaven . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, p. 267.
4. ↑ There's a fair in heaven. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .