Maibowle (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | May punch |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Günter Reisch |
| script |
Marianne Libera , Gerhard Weise , Günter Reisch |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Helmut Nier |
| camera | Otto Merz |
| cut | Hildegard Conrad |
| occupation | |
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Maibowle is a German DEFA feature film directed by Günter Reisch in 1959. In 1960 the film was continued with New Year's Eve punch.
action
Wilhelm Lehmann, master of the Grünefeld chemical company, has two reasons to be happy. His company will award him the “ Labor Banner ” award. Even television was announced on the occasion of the award. In addition, Wilhelm celebrates his 65th birthday on the same day and expects the large family to a big party for which his wife Auguste is already setting the birthday table at home. In addition, it is traditionally as every year on 13 May, prepared by the sons Maibowle give. Son Franz is hoping for the help of his siblings, who are expected at the Lehmann house on the occasion of the birthday. Since he has to go to an LPG meeting in Grünefeld, he prepares everything, but leaves the bowl preparation to the others.
Instead of the guests, Auguste initially only received rejections: Son Günther is on flight duty and son Gustav could come, but his wife Marion has planned an important conversation with the State Secretary and daughter Suse has to take an acting test. Daughter Rosa, who wanted to travel with husband Albert and the four children, has professional obligations as a teacher and Albert, as chairman of the LPG “Freshly ahead”, has to attend a meeting on this day. Only son Paul appears and so the birthday party and May punch threatens to be canceled. In the end, however, everything turns out well: When the relatives find out about the planned award, they set off on the sometimes chaotic route to Grünefeld, surprisingly arrive at the festival, watch the award broadcast on television and drink May punch together.
production
Maibowle had its premiere on October 5, 1959 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin and was shown in GDR cinemas on December 4, 1959. The film was first released on DVD in November 2010.
The music for the film comes from Helmut Nier , the lyrics by Paul Wiens . The DEFA Symphony Orchestra and the Dresden Dance Symphony performers .
The screenplay of the film was created “as a commitment to the fifth party congress of the SED ” and was performed on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the GDR. Although the film advertises, among other things, the GDR's chemistry program, it was criticized during the official acceptance test for some of the caricaturally distorted characters, including the drunken postman and the unconventional state secretary.
criticism
Contemporary critics praised the fact that "in this brightly colored, sun-drenched picture [...] good actors [come together] in large numbers", but noted that Reisch and Merz "sometimes [do] it a little too colorful".
For the lexicon of international film , Maibowle was a "cheerful comedy film that optimistically depicts the GDR, its industrial progress and the people involved, which partially covers up the weaknesses of the script with momentum and individual cabaret scenes." Other critics named Maibowle and its sequel New Year's Eve punch "Friendly praises of the socialist human community and the chemistry program of the GDR".
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 384-385 .
Web links
- Maibowle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maibowle at filmportal.de
- May bowl at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Habel, p. 385.
- ↑ a b Schenk, p. 114.
- ↑ HUE: Detour into cheerfulness . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 20, 1959.
- ↑ Rosemarie Rehahn : Humor was planned . In: Wochenpost , No. 50, 1959.
- ↑ May punch. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 5, 2018 .