Love is loud and quiet

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Movie
Original title Love is loud and quiet
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1972
length 67 minutes
Rod
Director Helmut Dziuba
script Wolfgang Ebeling ,
Helmut Dziuba,
Heinz Kahlau
production DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Hans-Jürgen Sasse
cut Bärbel Weigel
occupation

Love is loud and quiet is a German DEFA film directed by Helmut Dziuba in 1972.

action

In a bar, Helga Baumann meets her divorced husband again. The meeting is not accidental, as it was arranged by her older sister. After she said goodbye for flimsy reasons, Helga and Fred get closer again and end up in bed in Helga's apartment, which their two children register with joy the next morning. They divorced about a year ago because they had completely different views on marriage. He wanted to have the housewife and she liked an equal coexistence in the family and at work, because both worked in one company.

In the meantime, Helga has passed her master craftsman examination and started to assert herself with her colleagues. Only her ex-husband still found it difficult to have a smart woman next to her. He showed this particularly when he was supposed to take her to a trade fair in Tashkent to market a newly developed device. Only after starting difficulties did he get involved with what she didn't like. When the device was not accepted by the specialist audience during the exhibition because it was not yet fully developed, he suggested that she stay at home in the future, because he would be able to support the family as a sole breadwinner. Helga slowly began to doubt a new happy coexistence.

The decisive factor for the renewed separation was an awards event at which Fred accepted a reward that she knew he did not deserve. She declined her award in front of the assembled workforce and knew that she did not want to continue her life with the man.

production

Love is loud and quiet was created by the artistic working group “Red Circle” under the working title The house has turned many windows to ORWO color and had its festive premiere on December 1, 1972 in the Colosseum cinema in Berlin . The first broadcast in the 2nd program of the television of the GDR took place on February 18, 1975.

When the film was approved it was decided that it couldn't be shown that way and it was completely redesigned. For this, the author Heinz Kahlau was called in , who wrote a completely new story on the finished film. This had to be put on the existing picture with post-synchronization and plenty of thought voices. Since the leading actress Margot Busse refused to participate in this falsification, she was dubbed in the new version by Friederike Aust . Due to the dramaturgical cuts and rearrangements, only one torso remained from the original version.

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Thea Richter .

criticism

According to Helmut Ullrich in the Neue Zeit it is an annoying film. But not because it has been tinkered with for so long and it still turns out to be unsuccessful, but because the public's trust in DEFA's efforts to shape the present is being undermined.

In Neues Deutschland , R (olf) Richter complains that a long self-talk by the young woman is not an inner monologue about her situation, but only a superficial comment. The actors appear pale and helpless. In addition to the confused book, there is a superficial camera and a director without imagination. The whole film is a failure. The actual success of the evening was the supporting film Laundresses by Jürgen Böttcher .

The lexicon of international films states that this is a thematically interesting film, which however does not develop enough depth and is also formally immature.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 12, 1975, p. 10
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of December 6, 1972, p. 4
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from December 12, 1972, p. 4
  4. ↑ Love is loud and quiet. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used