Love traps

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Movie
Original title Love traps
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1976
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Werner W. Wallroth
script Werner W. Wallroth
production DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music Walter Kubiczeck
camera Werner Bergmann
cut Lotti Mehnert
occupation

Liebesfallen is a German episode film from DEFA by Werner W. Wallroth from 1976. It is based on episodes from the book Die Liebesfalle by Ludwig Turek .

action

On the way to his summer telling Schiffskoch Udo Klüterjahn before his astonished colleagues, as it comes as a bachelor in his holidays regularly at least eight quite portly Liaisons: He frying on his sailboat pancakes crispy and then addressed the latest. Everything else takes care of itself after his strict advocacy of women's equality. His tactic is also working this summer. When asked how he can best prepare pancakes, the plump textile goods saleswoman Bettina Gürtelschmidt comes on board. At first she resisted Udo's advances, so that he spoiled her with culinary delicacies in his cabin below deck for three days until she spends the night with him. After two romantic nights, however, Udo wants to get rid of her and bring her ashore, but has to discover that Bettina has gained so much weight in recent days through his cooking skills that she no longer fits through the cabin hatch. The angry Bettina tries desperately to lose weight, but because of the involuntarily extended period of getting to know each other, she and Udo end up getting so close that Bettina and Udo get married - after a saw has widened the cabin hatch.

At work, colleagues are amazed when Bettina appears as a newly wedded wife after her vacation. Her boss Renate Mauerbusch in particular is frustrated because she has settled into her pension roommate Dr. Biebermann falls in love, but does not pay any attention to her. Instead, the husband of her landlady, Frau Reitstock, has been "getting lost" in her bed and breakfast room for several nights. When Renate asks Frau Reitstock about it, she reacts in disbelief and horrified. Both women decide that Frau Reitstock should sleep one night in Renate's bed in order to catch her husband in the act. That night, however, the very drunk Dr. Biebermann in Renate's room and Frau Reitstock ran screaming into her bedroom after she woke up and Dr. Biebermann found lying on himself. Herr Reitstock, on the other hand, is confused to find a man in Renate's bed. The next morning, Dr. Biebermann sincerely to Renate. He was drunk and had a "film tear". Since he has been in love with Renate for a long time, he offers her the engagement in order to confirm his serious views, and Renate agrees happily.

Dr. Biebermann immediately announced his engagement to his secretary Gabriele Metzke, who burst into tears. She wanted to get married before her 40th birthday and was now 39. Biebermann advises her to post a marriage advertisement. However, the two candidates who answer - a drinker and a mother's boy - are not to Gabriele's taste. When Gabriele goes to the advertisement office again to ask for new submissions, she meets Prof. Kallmann, who has also placed an advertisement but does not want to ask for mail because the clerk in the shop knows him. He asks Gabriele to use his ID to collect his mail. However, she hides all the letters from him and goes to him the next day - ostensibly to return the ID, but in reality to get the professor herself. A long conversation, a dog bite and a missing taxi later, Gabriele is allowed to spend the night with Prof. Kallmann, who initially does a clumsy job but ends up in Gabriele's arms and bed.

Prof. Kallmann's latest scientific study is devoted to the question of whether happiness in love and happiness and productivity in the workplace are mutually dependent. He asks women workers in a company who express themselves differently, but agree that the two-time activist Liane Brückner disturbs the peace in the company because she plays with numerous men in the company. The new BGL chairman Rochmann is supposed to have a serious conversation with her, but forgets about it. Liane announces to one of her colleagues that she is planning to get married, but her lovers turn out to be fickle. The men and women of the company now ridicule her until Liane simply leaves her workplace during the shift. Now Rochmann is supposed to bring her back. In a bar, the misunderstood Liana and the father of two toddlers Rochmann, who has been left behind by his wife, have a long conversation and two bottles of wine later they are kissing in each other's arms.

production

The premiere of love traps took place on July 2, 1976 on the open-air stage in Fürstenwalde .

Various songs can be heard in the film, interpreted by Chris Doerk , Nina Hagen , Thomas Lück , Vlady Slezak , Holger Biege and the Gerd Michaelis Choir . Since Nina and Eva-Maria Hagen left the GDR as part of Biermann's expatriation in 1976, the film was only shown in GDR cinemas for a short time and was not shown again later.

criticism

Contemporary criticism found that, with the exception of the last episode, all “with reference to the allegedly or actually 'eternal' in love affliction and lust are perhaps a little too much interchangeable to, with all the fun, provide accurate, new information about them important sphere of 'social communication'. "

For the lexicon of international films , love traps was "an entertainment film with a tendency to gibberish without any claim."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 363 .
  2. ↑ Peter Ahrens: Dust and Love . In: Weltbühne , No. 32, 1976.
  3. ↑ Love traps. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 7, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used