In one breath
In the same breath is a German DEFA feature film by Dietmar Hochmuth from 1988, based loosely on a story by Wladimir Makanin .
action
After completing his studies, the 24-year-old Andreas signed a three-year contract to work for a GDR company on a tunnel construction site as an engineer in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains. One day there he receives the message from his friend from Berlin that his girlfriend Sabine has a new one, a water polo player, whom she wants to marry shortly. Furious with rage, Andreas forces his supervisor 10 days off and sets off for Berlin to stop his girlfriend from taking this step.
He finds accommodation for the first night with his friend and former fellow student Robert and learns from him that Sabine is now living with her future husband on Oranienburger Strasse, where he immediately sets off in the middle of the night. When the two of them met, Andreas clearly lost out. The next morning he lurked at her front door and followed her to the place of work where his department responsible for the Bulgaria mission was. He also managed to get to Sabine, but found no understanding for his concern. The next day he had to leave the company building because he had secretly stayed there overnight. Now he had several problems: No accommodation in Berlin and no money because his company did not want to give him an advance. In the afternoon Andreas waited again for Sabine and continued to press her. While he landed in front of a car and she was worried about him, the paramedics of the ambulance that had been called misunderstood the situation and took Sabine to a hospital. Here she was diagnosed with jaundice and placed in a closed quarantine department. All his numerous and imaginative attempts to win her back failed. But the water polo player couldn't achieve his goal either, because in the meantime Sabine had fallen in love with the attending doctor. Now Andreas finally saw that his enterprise was futile and he flew back to his tunnel construction site.
At the end of the film, the following scene: Years later, an average office worker is shown in the correct suit and with a briefcase, with his own car and a good family man with his wife and children. You can see that the man is out of breath, he is tamed and youth is over. At the sight of a young couple in love, the question is written on his face: Wasn't there something else?
production
The filming locations in Berlin included: Sports and Recreation Center , Friedrichshain Hospital , Oranienburger Strasse , Chausseestrasse , Alexanderplatz and Schönhauser Allee . Steffen Mensching's permanent stage partner Hans-Eckardt Wenzel as well as Reinhold Andert (all members of the songwriting scene) could be seen in small roles.
The “Babelsberg” artistic working group shot in one breath on ORWO color and had its premiere on November 3, 1988 in the Berlin Kino International . The first broadcast on the first program of the GDR television took place on September 20, 1989. The film was broadcast on April 2, 1990 on S3 television .
criticism
Detlef Friedrich from the Berliner Zeitung wrote: “Staccato, beautiful and intelligent, it started. Ideas, wit, freshness, charm, depth and atmosphere, until after the first half hour there was no air and shortness of breath set in. You wanted too much and couldn't do it “For Helmut Ulrich von der Neue Zeit , history is more hectic than substance. The stages of the love affair often seem very constructed. The satirical moments as well as the gags are not handled safely and therefore do not bring the desired effect. Although the story is partly grotesque and partly realistic, it is mostly a bit undecided in between, runs at full speed, but in the idle of the arbitrary and random. The lexicon of international films wrote that “the comedy of love, which sets a certain pace, but which quickly runs out of breath; Fairly entertaining, but not convincing in terms of acting and staging. "
literature
- In one breath . In: F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 296-297.
Web links
- In one breath in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- In one breath at filmportal.de
- In one breath at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The sausage and the fist". In: Berliner Zeitung , November 11, 1988, p. 7.
- ↑ "The Strange Adventures of a Young Lover". In: Neue Zeit of November 8, 1988, p. 4.
- ↑ In one breath. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .