Carbide and sorrel
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Carbide and sorrel |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Beyer |
| script | Frank Beyer, Hans Oliva |
| production | Martin Saturday |
| music | Joachim Werzlau |
| camera | Günter Marczinkowsky |
| cut | Hildegard Conrad |
| occupation | |
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Karbid und Sauerampfer is a DEFA comedy film from 1963, directed by Frank Beyer , with Erwin Geschonneck in the lead role.
action
After the end of the Second World War , Dresden was in ruins, including the cigarette factory. For the reconstruction you need carbide for welding. Kalle, who used to work here, wants his old job to be rebuilt. That's why Kalle, a non-smoker, sets out to get carbide.
In Wittenberge he gets seven barrels of carbide, each weighing one hundredweight - and now has to get them to Dresden without his own means of transport. First of all, the likeable Karla takes him with her wagon. He would like to stay with her longer, but duty drives him on. He promises to return. His only means of payment are cigarettes. For this he is taken by a truck driver.
Ultimately, the return journey will be much more difficult than expected. Kalle is suspected of being a looter and has to deal with an enterprising American soldier, as well as Red Army soldiers who take several of his barrels from him. He is shipwrecked and has to fight off a covetous widow.
Despite all the adversities, he brings two barrels to Dresden. Now a new beginning can begin. Not least because it is necessary for Hallodri Kalle to create a good foundation; after all, he and Karla become parents.
Remarks
The story of the film is based on real events. Author Hans Oliva-Hagen was already working on the subject, while Gewissen in Aufruhr - also with Erwin Geschonneck in the leading role - was being filmed. Originally, Günter Reisch was also supposed to direct; however, since this was not available, Frank Beyer became the director of the film. At first, he had problems getting Geschonneck through as the leading actor, because DEFA wanted a younger leading actor.
The real carbide pot - Richard Hartmann - had more success than carbide pot in the movie. With a colleague, he brought all of his nine barrels to the plant. However, he did not have such exciting adventures and did not father a child on the way. Hartmann and Geschonneck only met after the shooting. Alternatively, Karbid-Kalle was also being considered as a title .
The episode in which mushrooms are collected in a minefield goes back to a true experience by DEFA director Kurt Maetzig . The opera singer Rudolf Asmus has the only film appearance here outside of Walter Felsenstein's opera adaptations. For Erwin Geschonneck, the film was the final, albeit late, breakthrough to become a great DEFA star and character comedian.
The DEFA group KAG's black and white film “Red Circle” premiered on December 27, 1963 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin .
Reviews
“Director Beyer and cameraman Günter Marczinkowsky discover something like the 'optical joke' when they mostly go from the 'detail' to the long shot, when they grasp comic situations as a whole, always showing the actor in relation to the environment, but very briefly stay, the punch lines often set through the cut or the hinged cover. "
“Here comedy is not offered as a surrogate from the dream factory, but is derived from a reality that most viewers have seen but hardly found laughing at at the time. In addition, there is a comical hero, with whom identification is again possible: a worker whose apparently unshakable equanimity and clever wit prove themselves in all situations and who, in the portrayal of Erwin Geschonneck [...], receives a real comedy format. "
“First attempt by DEFA to present living conditions and everyday difficulties from a cheerful perspective immediately after the end of the war. The result is one of the best German film comedies, which, based on a script full of punch lines, can come up with a sovereign and convincing leading actor. In spite of all the comic forcedness, the social accuracy is never lost sight of; For the time, refreshingly cheeky political undertones round off the enjoyable plot. "
Web links
- Carbide and Sorrel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carbide and sorrel at filmportal.de
- Carbide and sorrel at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carbide and Sorrel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .