My wife Inge and my wife Schmidt

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Movie
Original title My wife Inge and my wife Schmidt
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1985
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Roland Oehme
script Roland Oehme
production DEFA , KAG "Babelsberg"
music Günther Fischer
camera Werner Bergmann
cut Helga Emmrich
occupation

My wife Inge and my wife Schmidt is a German feature film, made in 1985 in the DEFA studio for feature films by Roland Oehme , based on the radio play of the same name by Joachim Brehmer , which was first broadcast on GDR radio in 1977.

action

VEB Spiel- und Sportwaren is located in the small town of Rosenburg . The 6th company festival of this company takes place on the sports field, which also includes several sporting and playful competitions. One of the participants in the sack race is production director Karl Lehmann, who wins his run, albeit with a small injury to his head, as he falls shortly before the finish. But this wound is treated immediately by the company nurse Brigitte Schmidt, so that he can attend the closing party in the evening without any problems. While his wife is on the dance floor, the divorced Mrs. Schmidt speaks to him directly that she wants him to have a child. She just wants the child, with no further obligations for Karl Lehmann, because she doesn't want to live with a man again after her divorce.

One morning on the following Saturdays, the child is conceived and then Karl takes the car to pick up his wife Inge, who works as the manager of a department store . When his eight-year-old daughter Carola asked what he was doing that morning, he replied that he had fathered a child. Inge, who thinks this is one of his jokes, says that she no longer wants to have a child, but is taken aback when she finds someone else's earring on the passenger seat , which she can assign to Mrs. Schmidt. While Karl is already in bed in the evening and is busy with a new invention, Inge decides to have a child and throws the remaining contraceptive pills down the sink in order to then father a child with her husband.

Although this relationship is supposed to end with the process of conceiving a child for Ms. Schmidt, Karl suddenly cannot be without her any more and constantly chases after her what she tries to avoid. Only when she visits her apartment can she no longer defend herself because she loves him too. In the evening he learns at home that his wife is also pregnant, which upsets him because he assumed she was taking the pill. The next night Karl has to sleep alone in the double beds and moves to the weekend house the next day . Since he cannot cope with his problems, he gets leave from his company. During a visit to the city café, he suddenly sees Inge and Brigitte sitting familiarly at the table. Both have become friends in the meantime, know about their pregnancies and love Karl, whom they want to share in the future. Several wonderful months followed, during which Karl changed his wife every week. He is with his Inge for a week and with Mrs. Schmidt for a week. Word of this gets around quickly in the city, but not all residents agree. On the same day, the two women have their children, Inge a boy and Brigitte two girls. Karl maintains the weekly alternation between the two women.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Schmidt's divorced husband reappears in town, but doesn't want anything more to do with Brigitte. But he always runs after Inge to draw her. Because of his circumstances, Karl gets into trouble at the company and quits in order to go back to his learned profession as a chimney sweep . He had given up this job once when he noticed that he was not free from vertigo, which he was able to remedy through Brigitte's influence. But she is not happy about Karl's selfish decision, simply because of the extra effort involved in washing clothes. Then she explains to him that she also loves his friend and former colleague Hans Beyer. Inge Lehmann also has a new relationship, it is Manuel Schmidt, the painter and ex-husband Brigitte. Now the new lovers are going for a walk with the children, Karl is booted out and now has no more sleeping possibilities. But the waitress Maria takes pity on him and lets him sleep in her son's room. He explains to him that his life model can only work if everyone has equal rights, which means that he must also be divorced.

So Karl Lehmann files the divorce, which should happen immediately after the divorce from Hans Beyer. But the judge has problems getting a divorce because it is not broken. The last sexual intercourse with both women was also only five weeks ago, since during this time he slept neither with his wife Inge nor with his wife Schmidt, but in the room of Maria's son. When both women hear that he has not lived with the other for these four weeks, they fall on his neck full of love at the same time. Of course, the marriage does not end in divorce. Maria has already prepared a festive table on the occasion of the divorce, which will still be used for a celebration in which all parties participate. At the end, Carola explains to her three little siblings how the story might continue, because now Maria comes into play, who had to raise her son without a father.

Production and publication

My wife Inge and my wife Schmidt were shot by the Artistic Working Group (KAG) "Babelsberg" on ORWO-Color and had its world premiere on February 21, 1985 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . The film was shown for the first time on January 17, 1987 in the second program on GDR television . In the Federal Republic of Germany it was first broadcast on April 21, 1988 by Bavarian television in its third program.

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Dieter Wolf and the scenario was written by Joachim Brehmer and Roland Oehme.

criticism

In New Germany Horst Knietzsch wrote:

“The possibilities of comedic cinemas were far from being used. The scenario lacks esprit, the plot remains intoxicating for a long time, the dialogues lack too much of subtle humor, the music by Günther Fischer does not enrich the scene either and lacks the brio that this composer is used to. "

Helmut Ullrich expressed himself as follows in the Neue Zeit :

“Little about satirical either, although a few manifestations of moralizing provincialism, of colleague curiosity and small-town desolation from neighbors, of compelling concern for other people's private lives and also of officially correct helplessness in the face of such a case come into focus. Instead, a lot of comic clothes like a not really functioning mechanical rocking horse as a new development of the state-owned toy industry, like the repeated entanglement in the jammed coffeehouse revolving door, such as chimney-sweeping vertigo attacks in lofty roof height and similar jokes, jokes and antics more. Instead, a blurring into an unreal fairytale-like quality, a lost in rose thorn hedges. [...] It turned out to be a strangely indecisive and undecided film. "

Günter Sobe said the following in the Berliner Zeitung :

"Although I have by no means overlooked the fact that the Lehmann-Schmidt-Lehmann trio is not only allowed to complete the high school of human pleasure in Arcadian innocence and beautiful nudity right in front of my critical eye, the film still lacks esprit, eroticism, piquancy and also pointedness. Instead, a lot of unnecessary ballast is dragged into the story, which merely weighs down the fable and thus slows down the tempi. "

The lexicon of international films writes about the film that it is a frivolous comedy that is not very tasteful. Neither esprit nor satirical elements could be extracted from the topic.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from February 22, 1985, p. 4
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of February 22, 1985, p. 4
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 26, 1985, p. 7
  4. ↑ My wife Inge and my wife Schmidt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 17, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used