Come to the garden

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Movie
Original title Come to the garden
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1990
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Heinz Brinkmann
Jochen Wisotzki
script Heinz Brinkmann
Jochen Wisotzki
production DEFA -Studio for Documentary Films GmbH
camera Michael Lösche
cut Karin Schöning

Come to the Garden is a documentary film made by DEFA Studio für Dokumentarfilme GmbH in 1990 .

action

In 1990, three friends met to picnic on the former border strip of the Berlin Wall. While they make themselves comfortable on a blanket, a former watchtower is being torn down in the background. The friends have known each other for several years and everyone had their problems in the GDR.

Michael studied economics for five years in Moscow, was about to graduate and found the new pluralistic socialism in Chile convincing. The comrades did not find this attitude right, but Michael declared that he would not move away from it. That is why he was de-registered and sent back to the GDR. Here he started a new course of study at the University of Economics, which he successfully completed after 3 years. But since there were problems again at his new job at the academy, he was dismissed there. During a visit to Karl-Marx-Stadt , he threw a snowball at the Karl Marx monument there and was interrogated for hours. He met his wife when she was standing in front of his Berlin apartment with a group of Leipzig girls, as they had heard that it was cheap to stay there. He earned his living building lampshades.

Alfred was deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly mail . When he began to think of his own about journalism in the GDR and tried to include them in his articles, he got into trouble with his comrades in the SED . Since he could no longer deal with all of this, he sought help in alcohol. After being expelled from the party, he was also fired from his company, the Berliner Verlag . Many attempts to find a new job failed when the new companies received his cadre file. During a temporary job as a street sweeper in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse, he met his long-term friend. She was also very fond of alcohol, which was not good for life together. He spent several years in a mental hospital.

Dieter was a talented painter and draftsman who did not want the state to dictate when and what to do and what not to do. He wanted to work when he felt like it and not when he should. Due to the many rubber paragraphs of the GDR laws, he was jailed again and again, a total of ten years. In the prisons he was left alone by his fellow prisoners and had a certain license, as he was good at tattooing. At the time of the filming, he is preparing to marry a young woman from Moscow. He earns his living by painting pictures to order.

production

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The film was shot under the working title Bottles, Rags and Paper in Color and premiered on December 22, 1990. Some of the filmmakers and those portrayed knew each other before filming began.

criticism

Attila Weidemann wrote in the taz : “This tragic comedy shows the failure of individuals and an entire society, but is still treated with humor. The comedy that is inherent in the matter is left as it is, and worked out by the main actors and through the montage. "

The lexicon of international film describes the film as an above all thematically interesting portrait, which at times seems a bit complacent and sometimes exceeds the limits of the “showability” of its characters.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ taz of December 21, 1990
  2. ↑ Come to the garden. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used