No place for love

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Movie
Original title No place for love
Country of production Germany ( SBZ )
original language German
Publishing year 1947
length 77 minutes
Rod
Director Hans Deppe
script Margarete Hackebeil ,
Hans Deppe
production DEFA
music Hansom Milde-Meissner
camera Kurt Schulz
cut Lilian Seng
occupation

No place for love is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Hans Deppe from 1947, based on the story of the same name by Wolfgang W. Parth .

action

During the Second World War, Hans Winkelmann was given ten days leave from the front and during an excursion he met the young Miss Monika, whom he helped with studying roles for Messina's bride . From this acquaintance, a strong love develops within a short time, which both seal with a long distance marriage after his return to the war front . Only Monika's grandfather the actor William Spier, known as Cerberus , does not agree with this connection.

But only after three years can the couple meet again in bombed Berlin , there is only a problem with living together. Hans, who works in a factory, sleeps with the mother of a comrade-in-arms who owns a vegetable shop. Monika, who runs a small business with ad acceptance, lives with her grandfather, who gives acting lessons, in a room because the rest of the apartment has been bombed out. So it happens that the couple has not yet spent a wedding night despite the marriage .

But necessity is inventive and so Hans tries to lure his landlady into a cinema so that he can use her apartment undisturbed for a certain time. She sees through the request and declares that she is ready to procure fresh goods for the afternoon at the wholesale market. So that the couple is not disturbed, he gets a sign with a note which one to hang in the door. Hans prepares the room nicely, sets the table and welcomes his wife full of anticipation. But after a short time there is a knock on the shop door and the noise gets stronger. When Hans does have a look, he realizes that he has accidentally hung up the wrong sign with the reference to newly arrived goods and so the quiet togetherness is over and they have to part.

Next Monika tries to outsmart her grandfather and gives him a theater ticket for the play Kabale und Liebe . After a lot of persuasion she can get him to accept it even though he can imagine the reason for the gift. That's why he packs his things and threatens to move out, which he doesn't do. During a heavy snowstorm, Cerberus seeks shelter in the vestibule of an antique shop and looks for his theater ticket. Then the business owner joins them and he recognizes her as a former colleague. Over a bottle of wine, both of them reminisce and compliment each other .

At home, Hans and Monika find that their grandfather has forgotten his ticket and are now expecting his return. Since there is also a power cut, they make their way to the zoo when it is snowing to have an undisturbed time. But here they are driven away because a guard suspects that both of them only want to steal the vegetables grown here. The two of them spend the next few days looking for an apartment. The official way through the housing office is unsuccessful and the search based on advertisements does not work because of a misunderstanding.

But there is always a solution. The grandfather's chance meeting with his former colleague leads to a new love and Cerberus moves to her. Finally, Hans and Monika have their own living space.

production

No Place for Love was shot as a black and white film with the working title Meine Frau, das Fräulein in the Berlin-Johannisthal studio with exterior shots of Berlin and the surrounding area. Kurt Herlth and Otto Erdmann created the buildings, Adolf Fischer was production manager. The dramaturgy was in the hands of Wolf von Gordon .

The film premiered on March 31, 1947 in twelve Soviet-sector cinemas in Berlin : Capitol, Adlershof ; Delphi , Weissensee ; Filmtheater am Friedrichshain ; Forum, Köpenick ; Franciscans, center ; Odeum, Pankow ; Mila-Lichtspiele, Prenzlauer Berg ; Volkshaus, Friedrichsfelde ; Puhlmann Theater , Prenzlauer Berg; Silvana, Baumschulenweg ; UT Oberschöneweide and Volkshaus Weißensee. As an exchange film between Central Germany and West Germany, its West German premiere was on December 3, 1948 in Göttingen .

criticism

The Berliner Zeitung confirms the endeavor for timeliness, which only remains with the endeavor, because the results remain purely external. What is shown is purely a temporal backdrop, but by no means a handle in time, because ruins, card boxes, overcrowded light rail vehicles and raids Sliders are just an accompanying report.

In New Germany , Monika Melis thinks that this film has a number of Berlin types, especially in the supporting roles, that she can see on the street every day. Environmentally friendly and unpathetic, it conveys an atmosphere that makes you think of good French films.

The lexicon of international films says that it is a contemporary comedy that is entertaining and thought-provoking.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 30, 1947, p. 5
  2. ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946–1955 , pp. 10 f.
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 2, 1947, p. 3
  4. ^ New Germany of April 2, 1947, p. 3
  5. ↑ No place for love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 5, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used