Last Love (1991)

Movie
Original title	Last love
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1991
length	102 minutes
Rod
Director	Richard Engel
script	Richard Engel
production	DEFA on behalf of the DFF
music	Rainer Bohm
camera	Helmut Grewald
cut	Ilona Thiel
occupation
Petra Kelling : Bettina Amelung Werner Tietze : Gerhard Amelung Klaus Manchen : Dr. Lewitz Peter Planitzer : Mathias Amelung Björn Lorenz : Ralf Amelung Lena Latchinian : Lena Amelung Christine Harbort : Magda Ev-Katrin Köster : Mrs. Lewitz Josephine Karge : Sibylle Christel Peters : neighbor Joachim Konrad : Neighbor Simone Witte : assistant doctor Ulrich Voß : Department store manager Ingrid Rentsch : Sister Joachim Siebenschuh : Mr. Wormser Michèle Marian : brunette doctor Dietmar-Hartmut Huhn : truck driver Astrid Meyerfeldt : Saleswoman Annemarie Hummel : older customer Constanze Georgiewa : Nurse Liane Walter : patient Henriette Engel : 17-year-old patient Marlitt Fehlberg : young patient Isa Sander-Wolter : Educator Jürgen Hölzel : Waiter Lutz Dechánt : Guest / Garden Party Ver Renée Kubsch : neighbor Karin Beewen : waiting patient Petra Marie Cammin : young saleswoman Erich Altrock : Porter Nadja Engel : astonished customer

Last love is on behalf of the DFF produced feature film of the DEFA Studio Babelsberg GmbH by Richard Engel of 1991 after the novel by Kurt Biesalksi .

action

Ms. Amelung is sitting at the breakfast table and explains to her husband and two almost grown-up sons that she will have another child at the age of 43. There is no trace of enthusiasm in the family and the older son, who joins the army, makes it clear to her that only an abortion can be considered, because pregnancy and its consequences cannot be expected of her sons. When she is admitted to the hospital for abortion, her husband Gerhard offers her to forego the operation and go home again. But only in the hospital bed, during the conversation with the chief physician Dr. Lewitz, she changes her mind and wants to keep the child after all.

Three years later, on a walk with her daughter Lena, she meets the gynecologist Dr. Lewitz again and receives advice from her husband to thank him again. So she goes to him in the hospital, has a long conversation, talks about her understanding husband, who is slowly beginning to show signs of old age, and about the problems with her two boys. During this conversation, Bettina Amelung fell head over heels in love with him, which she also told her husband one evening before he went to sleep. When the doctor appears in the department store where she works as a meat seller and wants to buy some sausage from her, Bettina decides to call him to meet him, which she in turn tells her husband. She does not want to get involved in a conversation in the hospital's office and convinces him to meet her privately, which is why they agree to take a ride in his car. At your request, Dr. Lewitz took her to the cliff on the Baltic Sea to explain her love to him there. During the conversation, Bettina poured out all her heart and said that she was probably in love for the first time. But she has to find out in a conciliatory tone that her love remains unrequited and so their ways part ways at the sea. At home in bed, she tells her husband that she has met the doctor.

Bettina gets more and more lost in the idea of ​​meeting the doctor and becomes a stalker . She begins to watch and pursue him. She gets drunk with grief and makes it clear to her family that she loves him. In the department store she becomes absent and is no longer allowed to serve customers, but only to work in the hinterland. New youthful clothes, a new hairstyle and lots of make-up now determine her appearance. One day she gets from her husband to read a letter from one of her sons, in which it is written that she has developed into a whore. The neighbors are already talking about it openly. During a garden party at Dr. Lewitz invades his property, clings to it to kiss him and is thrown into a mud hole by him.

In a long conversation on the beach of the Baltic Sea, Bettina and Gerhard Amelung slowly approach each other again, because she realized that the love for the doctor was just a pipe dream. With a little luck, they will give their marriage a new chance.

production

Last Love was filmed on ORWO -Color and had its first broadcast on January 13, 1991 in the DFF country chain . The dramaturgy of the film was in the hands of Detlef Espey and Jutta Kleberg , the scenario was developed by Richard Engel.

criticism

In the NeueZeit , Horst Buder found that there was a lot to think about and personal improvement and said that if a film conveys something like that, then he's half won.

For the lexicon of international films , this is a cinematic television film.

Web links

• Last love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Last love in the online dictionary of television in the GDR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit on January 15, 1991, p. 15
2. ↑ Last love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 30, 2017 .