Maiden, I like you

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Movie
Original title Maiden, I like you
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1969
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Günter Reisch
script Jurek Becker
Günter Reisch
Gerd Gericke (Dramaturgy)
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Wolfram Heicking
camera Otto Hanisch
cut Hildegard Conrad-Nöller
occupation

Jungfer, I like you is a German film adaptation of DEFA by Günter Reisch from 1969. It is based on motifs from the comedy Der zerbrochne Krug by Heinrich von Kleist .

action

A village in the Electorate of Saxony in 1792: while the Prussians march against France , the hay harvest takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe is not very happy to catch her daughter Ev with the village blacksmith Ruprecht in the hay. Before she can beat Ruprecht, however, she is called to a sudden birth. A short time later, village judge Adam spontaneously levies a tax on drinking and dancing and does the first paid dance with Ev, whom he would like to see in his bed. In order to achieve his goal, he told her that in the near future he would have to select some young men from the village for several years of work in the colonies and that Ruprecht could avoid this fate with Ev's "help".

That night Ev is actually expecting Ruprecht in her room. Instead, Adam climbs the ladder and presses the defending Ev. Ruprecht, in turn, has seen a strange man disappear on his ladder into Ev's room and climbs after him. There is a scuffle in Ev's chamber. Finally Ruprecht smashes a jug on the skull of the foreign intruder, who escapes undetected. Adam loses his wig in a pigsty while on the run and returns to his room damaged. Ruprecht, in turn, explains in front of the indignant Marthe that he no longer wants to have anything to do with the " Metze " Ev. Marthe decides the next day - coincidentally, court day - to accuse Ruprecht of destroying the jug.

Adam only wakes up briefly the next morning and decides to skip court day due to a severe headache, various injuries and his missing wig. He is already asleep in bed again when Justice Counselor Walter and his wife Annabella are announced. While Walter wants to revise Adam , Annabella immediately cast an eye on Ruprecht, but tries in vain to seduce him. Adam got out of bed in the face of the judiciary and the secretly exulting clerk Licht, who would like to replace Adam as village judge, and will hold court the next day. The disappointed Ruprecht, on the other hand, plans to volunteer for the Prussian army and receives a letter of recommendation from Adam. He meets Licht who wants to pick up Adam's new wig in the regiment's city. Together they are drafted into the regiment in the city. Adam's letter of recommendation is read aloud and reveals that Adam was with Ev that night and that he now hopes to have Ev to himself. Ruprecht and Licht flee the city and return to their village, where Marthe learns the truth. At the trial, she indicts Adam, but cannot produce any evidence. In the end, Ruprecht is charged with violating officials and imprisoned. Meanwhile, light was also thrown into the prison.

There were minor entanglements and finally Prussian soldiers appeared in the village looking for the deserters Licht and Ruprecht. They recognize in Adam a former purser of their troops who embezzled most of the money and in the end fled with the regimental treasury. Adam is now to be hung up while Ruprecht and Licht are to be brought back to the troops. At the end Adam and Ruprecht exchange their clothes. Adam is back with his former troop, who forgive him for embezzlement. Since Adam is pardoned, Ruprecht disguised as Adam can return to his Ev. Only cantor and scribe Licht suffers: he now has to fight with the Prussians and wishes to have studied theology.

production

Jungfer, I like you was shot in 1968 under the working title All tomcat cats are gray at night . Individual scenes were created on the Lower Market in Görlitz . The film premiered on March 20, 1969 in Berlin's Kino International and in Kosmos.

The film is based on motifs from Kleist's comedy Der zerbrochne Krug , but turned the play into a “rough farmer's farce”.

criticism

Contemporary critics scoffed at the fact that “films that are as broad as they are colorful go haywire, and more haywire than hype. One clothes chases the other and these then the people from the cinema. [...] Otto Hanisch knew very well how to photograph many processes which, strictly speaking, would not have been worth photographing. "

The film-dienst called Jungfer, I like it. A “[t] urbulent, not always tasteful spectacle […] The result is a rumbling, rough, leather-like farce that continuously strings together gags and pleases itself with noisy non-committals. Only Wolfgang Kieling and Rolf Ludwig are captivating in the roles of village judge Adam and Schreiber Licht and are allowed to give their comedic monkey sugar "

Cinema called the film “badly over-the-top”, while other critics described it as a “rough and junky version” of the comedy on which it was based.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 300 .
  2. ^ Lothar Kusche : film journal . In Weltbühne , No. 18, 1969.
  3. ↑ Jungfer, I like you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 3, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Maiden, I like her. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 3, 2018.
  5. ^ Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 218.