Kiss me comrade!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kiss me comrade! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franziska Meyer Price |
| script |
Rodica Doehnert Michael Illner |
| production |
Markus Brunnemann Katja Hartwig Tim Gehrke |
| music | Thomas Klemm |
| camera | Theo Müller |
| cut |
Tanja Petry Behruz Torbati |
| occupation | |
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Kiss me comrade! (Alternative title: 1974 - Forward to the Past ) is a German television film from 2007.
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The young radio employee Jenny Lütjens accidentally hits a soccer ball on her head, falls unconscious and travels back from 2006 through time to 1974, the year she was conceived. There she wants to experience how her parents, the West German girl Alexandra and the GDR boy Frank, get to know each other. Jenny knows from her mother's stories that she was conceived at the moment when Jürgen Sparwasser scored the decisive goal in the game between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR during the 1974 World Cup . Frank later died trying to escape on the inner-German border. Jenny, who is mistaken for the niece of Erich Honecker , FDJ secretary Holzapfel, messes up the times in the past and has difficulties in bringing her parents together.
On a trip to a West German school class, the pupil Alexandra misses the onward journey with her staid and occasionally nasty classmate Dietmar - Jenny's stepfather from the future, whom she does not like - after a bus breakdown on the transit route. Both of them then pass through the forest to the FDJ camp site on an LPG site in Bantikow , where Jenny also landed. At first surprised, Jenny quickly realizes the situation and realizes her task, which she pursues with determination. Frank, who plays records at a party as a disc jockey , initially shows more interest in Jenny than in the visit from the west. Thanks to a trick by Jenny, however, a romantic encounter occurs between the two of them. But this is disturbed before Jenny can be conceived. Alexandra is caught by the People's Police and sent back to Hamburg.
A State Security employee is hot on Jenny's heels. He knows that she is not the FDJ secretary, Holzapfel. When he tries to arrest the suspects Jenny and Frank, he is taken by surprise and beaten down by them. At Jenny's insistence, Frank puts on the Stasi employee's uniform. Jenny's plan is that they will now get together - on a socialist state mandate, so to speak - across the border by train to the football game in Hamburg. The Loyal Stasi command officer Pfefferkorn lets Jenny's charm unknowingly involve him in the plan. Jenny comes in handy that she already knows the result of the game, which is so important for political prestige (GDR-Federal Republic of Germany 1-0, see Sparwasser goal ).
Jenny manages to visit Alexandra in her parents' house and thus enable Frank and Alexandra to meet again and thus Jenny's conception. The two finally arrive in the stadium, where Jenny's strength is visibly dwindling (the point of no return / the point of her conception - or non-conception - must be realized quickly). Jenny succeeds in threading her own conception before she is captured and interrogated by the Stasi. Because the circumstances about her passport are now blank, she is mistaken for a secret agent by Pfefferkorn .
Meanwhile, in the stadium catacombs, Alexandra and Frank hug each other after their reunification, thus enabling Jenny's birth in the future. While Frank explores the area and tries to find out whether they can escape unmolested, he is overwhelmed and led away by the Stasi. Meanwhile, Alexandra dresses again and has no idea that Frank is in trouble. When she finally takes a closer look, she doesn't meet Frank, but Dietmar, who was looking for her.
Meanwhile, Jenny is still trying to convince Pfefferkorn that she actually came from the future and is not an agent. She only succeeded in doing this with the latest camera found during research in 2006 , which in the past was only broadcast live in two hours. Jenny Pfefferkorn then reports on the coming developments and the eventual German reunification up to the things that happened in her time, such as the introduction of the euro as a means of payment in many European countries ( euro zone ). While the young woman reveals her knowledge and ultimately convinces Pfefferkorn that she is telling the truth and makes it clear to him that he has to get out as long as he has the choice, and that he even lets himself be convinced, her future father and brother Patrick are asked and locked up. Shortly after their conversation, Pfefferkorn and Jenny enable Frank and Patrick to escape. Shortly afterwards they meet Pfefferkorn's (now former) subordinates, whom he overpowers with Frank's help, and make their way to Alexandra, who cries her eyes at home because of Frank and his apparent arrest and lets her parents in on the actual events. Surprisingly for Alexandra, both parents show understanding for their actions and comfort their daughter. Even Dietmar realizes that he acted wrongly and apologizes to Alexandra. Shortly afterwards, Frank and Jenny appear with Pfefferkorn and Patrick at Alexandra's in Elbchaussee , and Jenny witnesses her future parents hugging each other - much to Dietmar's displeasure. Alexandra's parents witness how the two young adults fall into each other's arms. But only when Jenny Dietmar is revealed as the traitor of the two in front of Alexandra's parents, those present realize the truth about Dietmar. He is by no means the noble knight and savior he claims to be. The young, reunited couple Alexandra and Frank finally threw Dietmar out. Then those present witness another historic event: Pfefferkorn officially declares that he will no longer follow the GDR regime and demonstratively removes his pin.
Happy about their love and the regained togetherness, Alexandra and Frank spontaneously decide to adopt the orphan boy Patrick, who has grown very dear to them - much to the surprise of everyone and to the delight of Patrick. Amazed and speechless, the young couple's plans leave Alexandra's parents. Shortly afterwards, Jenny is hit again in the head by a soccer ball and travels back to her time while she tries to explain that she is a time traveler from 2006.
Moments later she is found lying on the couch by a young man, spoken to and woken up by addressing her by her first name. She seems to have slept on the couch. She is disoriented and recognizes the young man who woke her up. She's back in 2006. And the young man, who looks at her worriedly, seems to know her and then asks her irritatedly whether she actually slept in the armchair in which she woke up before, turns out to be Jenny's amazement The course of the conversation between the two of them as little Patrick, who has now grown up and whom her parents have actually adopted. She asks Patrick for the date and realizes that it is the same day as before her time travel and realizes that everything she has experienced actually happened. In her bag you will also find the original recordings that she took in the FDJ holiday camp and later. This is the final piece of evidence for Jenny to believe that she really went back in time, brought her parents together, saved her father from being shot at the "wall" and caused a lot of fuss. But there were other surprises waiting for Jenny ...
She is drawn to the editorial office to write her report. Patrick offers to drive her there. Jenny accepts this proposal with thanks.
In front of the editorial office, Patrick reminds Jenny that the parents will have a party in the afternoon. Since Jenny is still a bit disoriented and wants to know whether she actually managed to save her father retrospectively, she asks her brother what his father's name is, and Patrick answers her truthfully and continues to be amazed at his sister's strange behavior, that his name is Frank - even when he looks thoughtfully at his sister. Jenny begins to understand that everything worked out, what she had planned: Frank is alive and her mother never married Dietmar. And together they really adopted little Patrick back then. Jenny finally realizes that she has woken up in a completely different reality. She also learns from Patrick that her father was actually able to realize his dream and is now producing music.
Even in the editorial office there is nothing like Jenny used to be. She is popular with everyone. She learns from Tony that she is an editor and apparently a really good one. When she entered the office, he had snuck up behind her and kissed her. Jenny can't believe it. She calls him "you" and Tony has a lot of fun. His words suddenly make it clear to her that even more has changed. That kiss wasn't the first. She and Tony were a solid couple. The man she was secretly in love with before her journey through time was her boyfriend and - as it turns out during the conversation between the two - for a year. Everything had changed around Jenny. The father lived and was with the mother, her mother was happy, she had a brother, was an editor at the radio and didn't spend her days in the sound archive. And she was popular with all of her colleagues - everything she'd always wanted.
She is writing her post, and Tony is very excited about her article. Jenny can hardly believe it: she had achieved her goal. Tony really went on the air with a report from her and was enthusiastic about it, the editorial team and his audience - including the former Captain Pfefferkorn, whom Jenny was able to inform about the fall of the SED dictatorship during her bizarre journey through time. That one - it turns out - works in 2006 at the radio station at the reception.
After the broadcast, Jenny's sensational contribution is celebrated by Tony and the entire editorial team. Jenny still can't believe it. She was a successful and popular journalist, just as she always wanted to be. And then Tony kisses her. He also surprises her with a trip to Rome on the occasion of the first anniversary.
In the evening Tony and Jenny go to the party of Alexandra and Frank, their parents, mentioned by Patrick. On this occasion, Alexandra looks back on the events of that time in Frank's arms. Jenny listens to her mother's words in Tony's arms. The father starts to play the saxophone and Jenny snuggles into the arms of the man she loves. Happy ending .
Trivia
The plot of "Kiss me, comrade!" Shows parallels both to the British police series " Life on Mars " from 2006 and to the cult film Back to the Future . Both protagonists wake up after an accident in the present day in the 1970s, both can use knowledge from the future profitably and both try to find a way home that also includes bringing their own parents together (kiss me, comrade!) Or to prevent their separation (Life on Mars). The motifs taken up again from Back to the Future are the journey through time and the disappearing photo, which manifests the impossibility of one's own birth based on time paradoxes.
Part of the shooting took place in the KiEZ at the Frauensee .
Web links
- Kiss me comrade! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kiss me comrade! in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ 06/06/2006 - location Frauensee. Start of shooting of the Sat.1 movie "Kiss me, comrade". (No longer available online.) KiEZ am Frauensee, archived from the original on May 28, 2009 ; Retrieved July 17, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
