Life with Uwe
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Life with Uwe |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 102 minutes |
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| Director | Lothar Warneke |
| script | Lothar Warneke, Siegfried Pitschmann |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Red Circle" |
| music | Gerhard Rosenfeld |
| camera | Claus Neumann |
| cut | Erika Lehmphul |
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Life with Uwe is a DDR - Cinema Drama of Lothar Warneke from the year 1974 . The DEFA production is about a young married couple whose marriage threatens to fail under the great professional and private stresses. The literary model was the story "Five attempts about Uwe" by Siegfried Pitschmann .
action
It tells a day in the life of Uwe and Alla Polzin and their two daughters. Uwe Polzin is a biologist, his wife Alla works as an interpreter. For Uwe his scientific work comes first, for Alla and the two children there is not much time.
The day before he defends his dissertation, Uwe begins to think about his life so far. Alla, who feels exploited and has not pursued her career in favor of the family, is at the time with thoughts of divorce. In the discussions between the two of them, Uwe's sister Ruth comes up. She gave up a family in order to devote herself entirely to her work as a doctor. Alla and Uwe have doubts as to whether work and family can be combined. They consider a breakup to be inevitable. With the aim of saving her marriage, Alla appears in the lecture hall for Uwe's dissertation defense.
Production and publication
Leben mit Uwe was filmed as an Orwocolor film by the artistic working group “Red Circle” under the working title “Doppelhelix” or “One and the other” and had its cinema premiere on March 8, 1974 in the Leipzig Capitol Cinema . The first television broadcast took place in the first program of the television of the GDR on April 30, 1975.
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films writes:
“A thematically interesting film in a dramaturgically unconventional production. The juxtaposition of the different levels can cause difficulties in understanding, but the film is an asset for an open-minded audience. "
In New Germany , Erika Richter remarked :
“As sympathetic as we are touched by the richness of life's phenomena and the differentiated approach, on the other hand the abundance of aspects and the rapid change of scene make it difficult for the viewer to get into the situations. Too often one jumps from one hint to the next. The individual moments are juxtaposed too equally; focal points that structure the whole are largely dispensed with. "
Günter Sobe wrote in the Berliner Zeitung :
“Lothar Warneke doesn't make it easy for his audience, neither in terms of the problem nor in terms of the narrative style, he preferred a multi-layered flashback technique. I think that before the viewer fully realizes that it is meaningless to establish a chronology of the events, he could be distracted from more essential things. "
literature
- “The Second Life of the Film City Babelsberg, DEFA Feature Films 1946–1992” ISBN 978-3-89487-175-8
- "Lexicon of International Films" , Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek, 1995, ISBN 978-3-499-16357-9 (page 3300)
- Original film: "Siegfried Pitschmann: Men with Women, Stories" , Aufbau Verlag , 1973.
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 345-346 .
Web links
- Life with Uwe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Life with Uwe at filmportal.de
- Living with Uwe at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Details about the film on defa-stiftung.de
- ↑ Life with Uwe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 16, 1974, p. 4
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 19, 1974, p. 6