Let the children ...
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Let the children ... |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 54 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Evelyn Rauer |
| script |
Eberhard Geick Evelyn Rauer |
| production | Television of the GDR |
| music | Peter Rabenalt |
| camera | Eberhard Geick |
| cut | Edith Kaluza |
| occupation | |
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Lasset die Kindlein… is a 1976 film for GDR television by Evelyn Rauer based on the story of the same name by Wolfgang Kohlhaase .
action
Every two weeks, 30-year-old Jochen Biesener drives his motorcycle home to his parents. He works as a carpenter on a large construction site 80 kilometers away. Jochen has chosen the same profession as his father, but the tasks in construction in this profession have changed over the years. The pensioner Josef Biesener lives in a small house on the outskirts of a small town and his wife is already waiting to eat when her son pushes his machine through the gate. The conversations during the meal are always very poor, but every now and then the question about a girlfriend comes up, to which Jochen cannot give an answer because he doesn't have one. In the afternoon he meets up with his motorcycle friends and in the evening he goes to the dance, but he lacks the talent to speak to girls here. This is how the weekend goes by and that goes on every 14 days.
On one of these weekends, Jochen goes with his father on his daily walks. Here he tells him that he wants to get married and that he met the woman on a company trip. But he has known her, whose name is Irmchen, for a long time, because she works in the same company in the canteen and serves the food. But when he tells his father that Irmchen already has a child, he is not enthusiastic, because you make your own children. During one of his next visits at home, Jochen tells that his bride has a second child. The father is horrified, but Jochen weighs it down and says that one is from her former husband. That's too much for Josef, because two children and divorced, he can't take it. He is upset that his son didn't have a girlfriend at first and now has one. Jochen then immediately leaves his parents' house, but is back home 14 days later to repair the roof of the extension. While the father goes for a walk, Jochen tries to teach the mother that he loves the woman and that it doesn't matter whether she has two or three children. When his mother hears something from three children, a world collapses for them too.
In the near future, Jochen will only deal with his parents in writing. One day he asks if they want to take in an 8 year old girl for the holidays. Although Josef claims that none of this is his business, he picks up Irmchen's daughter from the train station. After dinner he goes for a walk as always and takes the child with him. During the conversation he learns that Jochen's bride has six children. Now there is another break in Jochen's visits. In winter he visits his parents and brings his pregnant bride with him. The first encounter is very stiff and the food and conversation drag on. But when Irmchen lends a hand while tidying up after dinner and wipes the kitchen table clean, a first rapprochement can be felt.
production
The first broadcast of this black and white film took place on December 5, 1976 in the first program of the television of the GDR .
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Eva Nahke .
criticism
In the Critique of the New Age , Mimosa Künzel wrote:
“The director goes about researching and dissecting with almost pathological thoroughness, creating a precisely and sharply observed study that is consistently carried out in an idiosyncratic style - but with a strangely oppressive atmosphere. This is a film that forces you to think, to debate. "
The Berliner Zeitung read:
“There is no need to fade in pictures of large construction sites to make the exact present visible. It stays with the eloquent look around the family table. On people, in people who build new houses and make them habitable in a new way. Simple, hardworking human people. You had to look carefully into this film. in order to absorb all his kind and funny, rough and tender tones, to recognize his natural side of our life, which is unwound in the original exceptional case. "
Web links
- Suffer the little children ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Let the children ... at filmportal.de
- Let the little children ... in the online dictionary of television in the GDR
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeit of December 7, 1976, p. 4
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 8, 1976, p. 6