Night games

Movie
Original title	Night games
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1979
length	82 minutes
Rod
Director	Werner Bergmann
script	Werner Bergmann
production	DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music	Kiril Cibulka
camera	Michael Göthe
cut	Lotti Mehnert
occupation
Christine Schorn : Mrs. Sbrchylinska Horst Drinda : Mr. Paul Doris Plenert : maiden woman Thomas Neumann : Martin Elsa Grube-Deister : carpenter Fred Mahr : telephone service / pensioner / head of heaven Christine Harbort : mother with child Brigitte Scholz : receptionist Gert Klisch : Older man Willi Neuenhahn : 1st man in front of the elevator Horst Papke : 2nd man in front of the elevator Siegfried Bartschat : 3rd man in front of the elevator Ingrid Barkmann : Plump lady Victor Keune : Man in the cloakroom Wilfried Pucher : Hotel manager Manfred Richter : 1st fitter Frank Ciazynski : 2nd fitter Werner Wieland : Guest in the restaurant Roland Kuchenbuch : Young man in the bar Thea Schmidt-Keune : carpenter

Nachtspiele is a German DEFA film directed by Werner Bergmann from 1979.

action

Mr Paul is an architect on a business trip who often stays at the Interhotel Potsdam, as he is in charge of a project in a small town in the area where he wants to save an old village center from demolition. To spend the rest of the day, he sits in the hotel hall. Here a woman his age, in her mid to late thirties, comes up to him and greets him. It turns out that she is the wife of one of his sports friends. She came to Potsdam by car to do something and because of a breakdown it has to be repaired in a workshop by the next day. On the advice of her husband, she is supposed to stay in Potsdam, but there is no room in the hotel for the time being.

At the same time, a young couple checks into the hotel who still live at home with their parents and grandparents and who finally want to spend a night alone. Grandma takes care of her child during this time. To make use of the time, both of them disappear to their room as quickly as possible. After the two of them have slept together, a discussion develops about whether it was nice or not. As a result, they first disappear from bed again.

In the meantime, Mr. Paul and Ms. Sbrchylinska are going to dine in the hotel restaurant and have lively conversations over a bottle of wine. They also walk around the hotel for a long time. When they return, they have to find out that there are still no rooms available. So they both decide to go to the night bar high above Potsdam. There they are assigned a seat at the young couple's table. They ended up in the bar because a blanket thrown carelessly over the television set was their undoing. It started to burn and until the housekeeper had put the room back in order, they had to leave the room. However, there is no understanding for one another between the two unequal couples. The young woman in particular is jealous of her husband because he danced with Mrs. Sbrchylinska and she is shocked that the two older ones are married, but not to each other. Slightly exhilarated, also from the alcohol, they go back to their room and, out of sheer exuberance, paint the wallpaper around a picture with toothpaste, lipstick, cream and the like. When moving out the next morning, they assure the hotel manager that they will put the room back in order.

After the night bar closes, Mr. Paul guides Ms. S. past the reception desk into his room, where she first takes the opportunity to take a shower. When she comes back into the room, only wearing a towel, she immediately lies down in the single bed and covers herself, but not without first taking off the towel. Mr. Paul is about to follow up when he notices that she fell asleep immediately. So he pushes two armchairs together and spends the rest of the night there. When he wakes up from the unfortunate sleeping position, he takes a little walk. In the hotel lobby he learns from the receptionist that a room has not been used late in the evening.

production

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Werner Beck .

Nachtspiele was filmed on ORWO- Color by the Artistic Working Group “Berlin” and had its premiere on February 22, 1979 in the Berlin Colosseum cinema . It was first broadcast on the first program on GDR television on April 18, 1980

criticism

Günter Sobe wrote in the Berliner Zeitung that Nachtspiele is a very acceptable, small, inconspicuous but certainly not a perfect film.

The lexicon of international films describes the strip as a tension-free problem film with elements of fun.

literature

• F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 427-428 .

Web links

• Night games in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Night games at filmportal.de
• Night games at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Berliner Zeitung of February 28, 1979; P. 6
2. ↑ Night games. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .