Dear mother, I am fine

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Movie
Original title Dear mother, I am fine
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1972
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Christian Ziewer
script Christian Ziewer,
Klaus Wiese
production WDR
camera Jörg-Michael Baldenius
cut Stefanie Wilke
occupation

Dear mother, I'm fine is a film by Christian Ziewer from 1972 .

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Alfred Schefczyk, originally an upholsterer and trained locksmith, went to West Berlin in 1967 to find work. At the time, the Berlin state government recruited workers from West Germany to compensate for the emigration from Berlin. Schefczyk is single and shared with a colleague in a dormitory. In the metalworking company in Wedding, where he works as a transport worker, the pressure is increasing noticeably in view of the first major economic crisis. A master rebukes Schefczyk for his way of working and rejects his suggestions for improvement. The works council is against the relocation of a department to West Germany, which the company management had not mentioned recently. The requirements in piece work should be increased. In addition, the rent for the rather modest rooms in Schefczyk's dormitory is to be increased drastically. Because of both the work pressure and the rent increase, there are discussions among the workers about what to do about it. Finally, there is a spontaneous strike against the new piecework conditions, which is ironed out by the management. A foreman who has stood up for his colleagues and who spoke to the operations manager as a spokesman is fired. Schefczyk, who initially dismissed the union activities of his colleague Bruno as pure talk, skeptical or even negative, is moving away from his wait-and-see attitude in terms of labor disputes and tries to draw up a list of signatures against the measures of the company management himself. But that proves to be tedious; most of them only wanted to sign “when more others” had signed. Schefczyk initially thinks that he has had enough of Berlin and should go back to West Germany, but then at the end of the film he writes a letter to his mother that he is fine and that he will soon have the prospect of more money and a better apartment ...

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