My dear husband and me
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| Original title | My dear husband and me |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 98 minutes |
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| Director | Klaus Gendries |
| script | Klaus Poche |
| production | Irene Ikker |
| music | Friedhelm Schönfeld |
| camera | Eberhard Borkmann |
| cut | Vera Nowark |
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My dear husband and I is a film on GDR television , made in the DEFA studio for feature films , from 1975. It was directed by Klaus Gendries based on a script by Klaus Poche .
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The focus of the plot is Angelika Minhoff. She is the wife of the busy actor Gerd Minhoff. In his life, however, she takes on the role of an assistant more than that of an accepted wife. She is a housewife and recently the driver of her husband, who had to give up his driving license because of driving under the influence of alcohol. So she drives her husband between his appointments with radio, film, television or dubbing and is often criticized by him.
While she keeps waiting in the car in front of the door for her husband, who is already in bed in the evening or "doesn't need her" one day, she thinks increasingly critically about her life and her role in her marriage. Her husband does not notice his wife's problems and her change process. Finally, the decision matures in her to look for her own work that gives her real recognition and satisfaction. Above all, however, she wants equality in marriage, recognition and no longer patronized by her husband.
She is applying for a job as a driver in a company. There she is initially received with skepticism by the dispatcher Richter. Although she has driven her husband a lot lately, she has essentially no experience in this job. This is already clear during the test drive on the first day: Unsuitable clothing, unsafe driving behavior and insufficient vehicle knowledge seem to confirm the prejudices. She is not taken seriously by her future colleagues either, as they see her first as a "lively bee", because as a colleague.
In the event of a "trial breakdown" caused by the dispatcher during the test drive, however, it gains a first small respectable success. Although she cannot cope with the jack and spare wheel, she can - as a woman - quickly remedy the situation by stopping a truck whose driver can repair the breakdown for her.
Her husband is not very enthusiastic when he learns about his wife's new ways. But he is primarily concerned with himself - the wife of the actor Gerd Minhoff as a driver, in a "job without prospects", which makes him fear above all about his reputation. In addition, he is afraid of some of the comforts that previous married life has brought with it.
The other drivers are also initially not taken with the new colleague. They fear that they are more likely to have a "burdock on their legs" than to have additional workers in their brigade. At least the dispatcher tries to get something good out of the situation: So he suggests to the brigade's cultural officer that the new colleague's marriage be used for cultural work.
A lot has changed in Angelika Minhoff's marriage: the actor's husband now also has to deal with problems with children, shopping and household chores. He is also suddenly in the role of someone who sits alone in the apartment in the evening because his wife is already asleep. Gert Minhoff cannot cope with this and seeks consolation from one of his colleagues.
Meanwhile, Angelika is slowly settling into her new company. The colleagues in the driver brigade are beginning to accept them. The first long-distance journey is not without complications: The economic director Prüfer is supposed to take part in a conference in Magdeburg. However, he refuses to drive with a woman. But director Bellmann enforces the trip. When the passenger keeps talking to his driver, she rebukes him. The examiner complains about this in writing, but the driver brigade stands behind her colleague. And Angelika's husband is slowly finding his way into the new situation.
Meanwhile, Director Bellmann is arranging for Angelika to be his new chief driver when the previous chief driver retires. When Angelika tells her husband that she wants to take on the new position, the conflicts break out again.
The new position also brings with it a challenge. Angelika is supposed to drive Director Bellmann to the trade fair in Leipzig. Here she realizes that the men around her don't just see her as drivers. In the end Angelika thinks about giving up the work and tells Bellmann about it. But she cites the problems in her marriage as the reason for this decision.
Bellmann decides to speak to Gerd Minhoff about this. He is not at all enthusiastic, but then starts talking to Bellmann. The two discover similarities and "fraternize" over whiskey and wine.
The next morning, Minhoff explains to his wife, who has now apparently finally decided to give up the work again, that he had arranged everything for her with the director. Think about qualifications for her and the fact that she shouldn't stay a driver all the time. He does not realize that it is precisely this paternalism from her husband that she no longer wanted.
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The color film was first broadcast on January 5, 1975 on the television program of the GDR.
Web links
- My dear husband and I at filmportal.de
- My dear husband and I in the Internet Movie Database (English)