Lissy (film)

Movie
Original title	Lissy
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1957
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Konrad Wolf
script	Alex Wedding Konrad Wolf
production	DEFA
music	Joachim Werzlau
camera	Werner Bergmann
cut	Lena Neumann
occupation
Sonja Sutter : Lissy Horst Drinda : Alfred Frohmeyer Hans-Peter Minetti : Paul Schröder Kurt Oligmüller : Kaczmierczik Gerhard Bienert : Father Schröder Else Wolz : Mother Schröder Raimund Schelcher : Max Franke Christa Gottschalk : Toni Franke Mathilde Danegger : spokeswoman Annemarie Hase : Mrs. Kaluweit Willi Schwabe : Gold cashier Gerd Michael Henneberg : Staudinger Walter E. Fuß : Mixer Axel Triebel : Fromeyer's landlord Wilhelm Gröhl : Managing Director Gerhard Rachold : Young SA man Rolf Ripperger : Fromeyer's colleague

Lissy is a German feature film from 1957. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Franz Carl Weiskopf .

action

Lissy Schröder is a working class child from Berlin. Her parents are social democrats and raised them accordingly. However, the happy young woman lived in poor conditions in the early 1930s and dreams of a better life. This seems to be given to her by the employee Alfred Frohmeyer. She marries him and the first child arrives quickly. But Alfred lost his job in 1932 and his marriage to him did not bring Lissy forward. It was only when Alfred got in touch with the NSDAP that the tide seemed to turn. He quickly rose to the position of SA storm leader with the Nazis . The longed-for bourgeois life is now within reach for Lissy. She is holding a housemaid and starts playing the piano. But suddenly her own parents no longer want to have anything to do with her, and old friends avoid her. Only brother Paul, although a former communist, also joins the Nazis. Lissy gets into isolation and learns that the prosperity she has longed for does not make her happy. The marriage with Alfred gets into a crisis. When her brother Paul is finally shot by the Nazis because of his past, Lissy knows what she got into. She leaves Alfred and starts a new life.

Reviews

"Political and social backgrounds of the time are portrayed from a one-sided communist point of view, but the suggestively photographed, exquisitely edited and played film is timeless and, thanks to its theme - the preservation of virtue and decency against violence and lies - is highly debatable."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• Lissy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lissy at Filmportal.de
• Lissy at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lissy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 30, 2017 .