Network (film)

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Movie
Original title network
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1970
length 80 minutes
Rod
Director Ralf Kirsten
script Ralf Kirsten
production DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music Andre Asriel
camera Claus Neumann
cut Evelyn Carow
occupation

Netzwerk is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Ralf Kirsten from 1970.

action

The writer Schaffrath enters the office of the graduate engineer Dr. Hans Kahler, with the request to have a look around the company, because he wants to report in a report about the people working in the new part of an oil processing plant . In the midst of the hectic hustle and bustle of the trial operation comes the news that master craftsman Peter Ragosch has collapsed. His colleagues wonder how this could come about. You only now notice that he has been almost exclusively on the construction site for the past few days. During the conversations, they also realize how little they know about him, but decide to inform his wife, who they don't even know whether she works or is a housewife. After Ms. Ragosch hung up the phone without comment and did not visit her husband in the hospital either, Hans Kahler went to see her in the evening. After a little hesitation, she opens the apartment door and starts talking. So it turns out that her husband neglected not only his qualifications, but also his marriage. She moved to Schwedt with Peter to give him a good life there and has therefore given up her job as a master craftsman in a textile company in Leipzig . But since he is only interested in his work, she wants to leave him because he obviously no longer needs her. To round off the evening, they go to a bar, where they meet Peter's colleague Jakob and his girlfriend Sabine. They are her husband's first friends that she meets. The writer joins them too, but Frau Ragosch disappears after a dance with Jakob without saying goodbye to Hans Kahler. Ms. Ragosch uses the following hours to think, which is why she visits Peter the next day in the hospital and suggests that he risk a fresh start. But he is still more connected to his business than to his wife.

Since Peter Ragosch has been in the hospital, he has been very worried. He is needed on the construction site, but is being held here and the senior doctor does not want to see him until the next day. Until then, a nurse has to prevent him from leaving the hospital on his own. The reason for his collapse was certainly also the hints of operations manager Heinicke, who accused the master of the repair department of wanting a lot but knowing little about what could lead to his position being filled with an engineer in the future.

The young engineer Püschel, who is currently moving into an apartment in the new building with his family, also gets to know his new neighbors in the evening. These are the operations manager Heinicke with his wife and the engineer Melzer, who still wants to move in so that he is no longer separated from his wife. Over a bottle of vodka, Püschel explains his reasons for wanting to work in the new part of the company, and he immediately asks Heinicke whether there can be work for his wife at the plant. She had to drop out of her studies, but it is still enough to become a chemical laboratory technician and she could use the money. This comment annoys Ms. Püschel, because she shows that her husband does not know how much a household with two children is. The next morning on the construction site, Püschel makes a mistake. He gets into the conversation because he rigorously demands the replacement of those who are no longer up to their tasks and it cannot be overlooked that he is referring to Ragosch. But the party secretary Kahler feels responsible for the master and also gives the engineer Püschel to understand.

Manfred Krug in the role of the writer Schaffrath

Writer Schaffrath travels to Dresden to meet Hans Kahler's wife. She works as a lecturer in mathematics at a university and he sneaks into one of her lectures. Then both go for a walk through the city and talk about their previous life and what Ms. Kahler understands by happiness, because their lives work even though they work in separate places. Here Schaffrath also learns that Hans Kahler was originally also employed as a lecturer at the university, but found a greater challenge in his new job.

Ragosch has now managed to escape from the hospital. Kahler and the nurse find him in a village restaurant nearby. He also used the time to think, which is why he is celebrating the death of his best friend, by which he means himself. He wants to change his life and dare a new beginning, although his wife has returned to Leipzig for the time being. He goes back to the hospital with the nurse and the party secretary. However, since Kahler has learned a lot in the last few days, he takes the train to see his wife in Dresden.

Production and publication

On February 13, 1970, Netzwerk experienced a preview in the clubhouse of the Schwedt oil processing plant , the company in which large parts of the film were shot. He was under the working title The seventh summer as black and white film directed by the artistic group "Berlin" and had to still further previews, as on 11 June 1970 to 12 workers Festival in Rostock and on 29 August 1970 , Leipziger Messe , its premiere on September 3, 1970 at the Berlin Kino International .

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Werner Beck and Anne Pfeuffer and the scenario comes from Eberhard Panitz . The outdoor recordings were made in Schwedt and Dresden .

Reviews

In New Germany , Peter Berger wrote:

“'Network' is one of those films that speak quietly, almost cautiously to the audience and then continue to have a lasting effect on them."

In the Neue Zeit , Me. Commented on some of the film's weaknesses:

“The abundance of intellectual material is not tamed, not consistently converted into cinematic experience values; Much is only said in the overloaded dialogue, but not conveyed visually or emotionally, and cannot be read from the plot and presentation. "

The lexicon of international films writes that too many topics are dealt with too superficially and too heavily for dialogue in the film.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 17, 1970, p. 5
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, September 6, 1970, p. 8
  3. ↑ Neue Zeit of September 6, 1970, p. 6
  4. ↑ Network. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 2, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used