Auntie flour
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Auntie flour |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Langhoff |
| script | Thomas Langhoff |
| production | Television of the GDR |
| music | Uwe Hilprecht |
| camera | Jürgen Heimlich |
| cut |
Edith Kaluza Cornelia Klein |
| occupation | |
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Muhme Mehle is a feature film on East German television by Thomas Langhoff from 1980 , based loosely on Ruth Werner 's story of the same name, which appeared in 1976 in the book of stories Der Gong des Porzellanhändlers .
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Aunt Mehle is an apolitical woman who grew up in a Prussian military girls' orphanage and was brought up there under the threat of 29 sentences to be “faithful and honest”. There was nothing in the institution's rules about love and friendliness, and so she looked for a life's work that corresponded to her upbringing to serve, but also to her silent longing for warmth, so she became a nanny. One of the first children she looks after is Mirjam, who remembers her in 1938 when she needed a housekeeper and a nanny for her two children and therefore brought Auntie Mehle, whom she had called that since her own childhood.
Mirjam is a German anti-fascist who lives as a scout in Switzerland. Away from the cities, she lives in a remote farm in the mountains and only drives into town every now and then to meet her liaison man Paul. She has full confidence in Auntie Mehle. She quickly finds her new darling in Mirjam's daughter Tina, whom she adores. Both women live with their two children and the occasional visits from their neighbors, undisturbed in solitude. That only changes when Sid, a comrade from England, is assigned to her. Since Auntie is not allowed to find out everything, the two have to be careful. So the work as a scout and the nocturnal radio traffic must not be known. It turns out that Miriam and Sid become a couple, which is accepted by the children and the aunt. The latter also declares its willingness to bring to Germany money that was collected for the fight against the National Socialists abroad. Only when she does not arrive at the train station on the scheduled train does Mirjam become restless, but there were only connection problems.
Auntie gets more and more the feeling that something is being hidden from her. She begins to secretly open the incoming letters and misinterprets the contents. Since Mirjam is supposed to get a new passport and friends advise her to at least bring the children to safety in case the Germans should also invade Switzerland, she thinks that Tina should be taken away from her. So she goes to the English consulate and tells them what she knows. In their confusion, a hairdresser in town gets to hear the story. According to the iron rules of conspiracy, Mirjam has to part with Auntie Mehle.
production
The first broadcast of the film created on ORWO-Color took place on March 2, 1980 in the first program of the television of the GDR .
The scenario was also from Thomas Langhoff and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Alfried Nehring .
criticism
Peter Berger said in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland that Aunt Mehle is not a sad film, but rather a film with quiet nuances. Sadness and serenity are always close together and serenity comes from the certainty of a world that is friendly to children and mothers.
In the Neue Zeit, Mimosa Künzel particularly emphasized Jürgen Heimlich's camera work, which developed a style of its own in addition to Langhoff's strictly restrained narrative style. The pictures are captivating with their color transparency and are downright picturesque beauty.
Awards
- 1981: In Benchmarking works of dramatic art of the film was the predicate particularly valuable awarded
Web links
- Aunt flour in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Aunt Mehle at filmportal.de
- Aunt Mehle in the online encyclopedia of television in the GDR