No trouble with Cleopatra
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | No trouble with Cleopatra |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Schneider |
| script |
Manfred Petzold , Helmut Schneider |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Kurt Grottke |
| camera |
Günter Eisinger Hans Hauptmann |
| cut | Friedel Welsandt |
| occupation | |
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No Trouble with Cleopatra is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Helmut Schneider from 1960 .
action
At the end of the 1950s, in the village of Bolbitz, a joyous event can be seen in the Kahlow family's pigsty. Since the family is still working in the field, Grandma Kahlow has taken on the task of supervising the piglets, although there is still some time left. After a little nap, she opens her eyes and realizes that the white sow has given birth to black piglets, which is supposed to mean bad luck. But that in turn presupposes a sin that can only come from the collectivization of agriculture at this time and the Kahlow family, like many others in the village, has not yet entered the LPG . Grandma Kahlow realizes that this can only be a heavenly hint that warns of the cooperative. Gottlieb Grossig, who is also not yet in the LPG and whose boar has mated the sow, rejects his boar's responsibility, but as a member of the church council also represents the opinion that it can only be a heavenly hint.
The breeding station of the LPG has been experimenting with breeding black Cornwall pigs for a long time , something Jan Lubenski and Peter Jaschke are particularly concerned about. When word got around about the birth of the black pigs, the LPG chairman introduced them to the new animal breeder. During a tour of the pigs' run, Lubenski discovered that the Cornwall breeding boar Brutus was able to skip the barriers and realized who was responsible for the black piglets. The second white sow has now had black piglets.
Irmchen Grossig and Claus Kahlow love each other, want to join the LPG and often use the time to talk about it. When Father Grossig comes home from a parish council meeting, he meets young Kahlow who is visiting his daughter. In a conversation he tells them that he has no objection to an engagement. After the wedding they can move into his rooms in the house and take over the yard. Claus tells the story to his father, who tells him that he will immediately join the LPG without his wife's knowledge. The next morning, Mathias Kahlow takes his sandwich package and goes to work at the LPG, while his wife has to go to the field with the sole support of her son.
The white sows that black piglets give birth are increasing in number. Now the pastor's sow Cleopatra is also hit, which refutes the heavenly hint. Grossig has a new idea after noticing that his wish to shift the work on his farm on to his daughter and his future son-in-law is not working out. He now wants to found their own for all those who are not yet members of the LPG, with himself as chairman. At the founding meeting, however, the candidates notice that he is only thinking of his own interests. Therefore, all those involved go to the plenary meeting of the already existing LPG and join it.
Production and publication
No trouble with Cleopatra was shot under the working titles The Heavenly Wink and Heavenly Wink as a black and white film and had its premiere on the occasion of the VI. German Farmers' Congress on December 8, 1960 in the Rostock film theater Capitol .
The film was broadcast for the first time on June 28, 1961 in the German TV program.
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Hans-Joachim Wallstein .
criticism
In the Critique of the New Age , GS wrote:
“Unfortunately, the director Helmut Schneider did not succeed in putting tense lights on the poor fable. The plot drags on laboriously and with little conflict. Even good character actors remain superficial ... "
The lexicon of international films writes that the film was already a hopelessly outdated agricultural folk piece in an extremely amateurish style when it was made.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 317 to 318 .
Web links
- No hassles with Cleopatra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- No trouble with Cleopatra at filmportal.de
- No hassle with Cleopatra at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of December 10, 1960, p. 1
- ↑ Neue Zeit of December 15, 1960, p. 4
- ↑ No trouble with Cleopatra. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 17, 2018 .