Life for two

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Movie
Original title Life for two
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1968
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Herrmann Zschoche
script Gisela Steineckert
production DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music Georg Katzer
camera Roland Graef
cut Rita Hiller
occupation

Leben zu zwei is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Herrmann Zschoche from 1968 .

action

Karin Werner is a registrar and lives alone with her 15-year-old daughter Nora, as she has been divorced for a long time. She is now in her mid-thirties and has had a relationship with the mathematician Peter Freund for half a year, who she would like to marry. But Karin doesn't want to, because she hasn't told her daughter about the relationship yet and it is also not clear to her how to teach her that. But Nora has already noticed that her mother has a boyfriend, only she doesn't know who it is.

Since Peter does not give in to want to get to know Nora, they get the idea that he should get to know Nora, win her sympathy and then let her invite him. Here he can get to know her mother and then fall in love with her. The first meeting is planned in a library, where Nora wants to bring a book back. Just getting to know each other doesn't really work and that's why Peter goes after Nora and first hands her her library card, which she has forgotten. But Nora doesn't let herself be stopped, she has an appointment with her school friend Mark. The two of them quarrel in an ice bar and after Mark leaves, Peter, who continued to follow her, sits down next to her and explains to Nora what she did wrong. This is how they get to know each other.

On the day of her 16th birthday, Peter picks up Karin's daughter from school and takes her home by car. However, she refuses his wish to come into the apartment to get to know her mother. In the evening she celebrates her birthday with several friends. One of her friends brings her brother Sascha with her, with whom she immediately falls in love. Mark, who loves her and whom she only sees as a friend, is written off immediately. Karin spends the evening with Peter and confesses to him the real reason for her negative attitude towards marriage. She wasn't really free in her first marriage, now she's living her own life and is afraid of becoming dependent again.

By chance Karin learns from Professor Wolle that Peter is supposed to work abroad for two years. She is so disappointed that he hasn't said that earlier and separates from him in an argument. Alone again with Nora, she finds that both of them have problems with love. Peter doesn't want to give up Karin and sneaks into a wedding with a wedding party under a pretext. When Karin discovers him among the visitors, she puts all her frustration into the speech, but then she goes along with him for a while, which ends with a reconciliation in bed. When the doorbell rings and he opens the door, Nora stands in front of it and asks him to help her with math. He sends her to the kitchen, Nora washes the dishes and Peter ties an apron around her. When Nora notices that it is the apron that she sewed herself and gave her mother as a present, she knows and says goodbye quickly.

Now Nora takes matters into her own hands and makes common cause with Peter. She gets her mother to invite Peter into the apartment and introduce him. Now nothing stands in the way of a wedding and Nora can devote herself to her love for Sascha.

Production and publication

The filming locations in Berlin were in Schönhauser Allee , Kastanienallee , Dimitroffstraße , in Volkspark Friedrichshain , Volkspark am Weinberg , Friesen swimming stadium , on Friedrichsgracht , on Greifenhagener Brücke and in the Mokka-Milch-Eisbar .

Life for Two was filmed as a black and white film by the artistic working group “Berlin” under the working titles A certain girl and Who loves will see and had its world premiere on February 16, 1968 in the Geraer Panorama-Palast. The film was shown for the first time on October 7, 1969 in the first program on GDR television .

The song Wir sind jung was composed by Jürgen Pippig , the vocal interpreters came from the Oktoberklub Berlin. The dramaturgy was in the hands of Anne Pfeuffer.

criticism

Helmut Ullrich expressed himself as follows in the Neue Zeit :

“The somewhat artificially complicated psyche of the heroine and the consequently equally artificially complicated course of the plot are the only things that can't really please about this film. Otherwise this love story from our day is quite refreshing, not over-ambitious, not fatefully whipped up, but simply nice and very lifelike and people-friendly. "

Günter Sobe wrote in the Berliner Zeitung :

"The entertaining little film has its greatest advantages in the realistic, never ambiguous view of things and in the often nicely pointed dialogues."

The lexicon of international films writes that the dramaturgical shortcomings of comedy films are made up for by good acting performances and atmospheric density.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neue Zeit of February 27, 1968, p. 4
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 27, 1968, p. 4
  3. ↑ Life as a couple. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 11, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used