Meier (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Meier |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Timm |
| script | Peter Timm |
| production | Alena Rimbach |
| music | Peter Goldfuss |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut | Corina Dietz |
| occupation | |
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Meier is a German feature film from 1986.
action
Ede Meier is an upholsterer and lives with his girlfriend Lore in East Berlin . After his father, who died in West Berlin , left him a small inheritance, GDR citizen Ede bought a makeshift West Berlin ID card from Kretschmer, a refugee worker , so that he could go on a world tour.
When he returns, Uncle Werner and Aunt Inge in West Berlin are not only appalled that Ede does not want to use his legacy to build an existence in the West, but also wants to travel back to East Berlin as a Westerner with a day visa. Lore and Ede's work colleagues suspect nothing when he allegedly returns from Bulgaria after three weeks .
Annoyed by the socialist shortage economy , which only produces ugly sample wallpapers , Ede now wants to improve the renovation decisively with western woodchip wallpaper . With a day visa, arriving again and again at midnight and leaving the next night, Ede smuggled woodchip wallpaper over the wall to East Berlin, pretending to have invented a machine that can turn patterned wallpaper into woodchip wallpaper.
The constant crossing of the border, which is limited to forty days a year anyway, makes his love life for the socialist lore much more difficult. But Ede's wallpaper is extremely popular and his upholsterer brigade achieves legendary quotas in fulfilling plans . Nobody wants to have patterned wallpaper in their apartment anymore. Ede Meier is honored as a “ hero of work ”.
On the day of the award of the medal, however, Ede arrives too late at the border and is exposed. Inadvertently, Ede had shown his GDR ID . The Stasi people who interrogate him, however, come into conflict about having to put the newly crowned “hero of work” in prison. This would be too great a disgrace for the workers 'and peasants' state and so they release it again. It turns out that the woodchip wallpaper smuggled by Meier was produced in Karl-Marx-Stadt for the purpose of procuring foreign currency exclusively for export to the FRG .
Reviews
“Comedy with ironic tips against systemic deficiencies here and there, which deals with the all-German topic in a refreshingly relaxed manner; despite some dramaturgical lengths largely convincing. "
"Here a story is told that can only happen in Berlin, and the fact that it comes across as a comedy is the best that could have happened to it."
Awards
In 1987, Peter Timm won the Director's Prize of the Bavarian Film Prize and the Ernst Lubitsch Prize for his debut film .
Others
The cabaret artist Dieter Hildebrandt has an appearance in this film as a waiter in an East Berlin HO restaurant Gastmahl des Meeres , where Ede Meier and his girlfriend Lore want to eat. In this fish restaurant, however, the waiter cannot offer any fish other than mackerel , although the menu is full of various fish dishes. Hildebrandt answers every other fish order the two of them have with the words Hamwanich .
Web links
- Meier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meier. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 3, 2017 .