Don't cheat, darling!

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Movie
Original title Don't cheat, darling!
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1972
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Joachim Hasler
script Joachim Hasler,
Heinz Kahlow
production DEFA , "Johannisthal" group
music Gerhard Siebholz ,
Frank Schöbel
camera Joachim Hasler,
Peter Süring
cut Barbara Weigel
occupation

Don't cheat, darling! is a DEFA German music film directed by Joachim Hasler in 1972.

action

Dr. Barbara Schwalbe comes to the small town of Sonnethal as the new technical college director. According to the mayor's will, everything there revolves around football, as he wants to bring the local men's team into the district league with all his might and thus make Sonnethal known. To finance his football wishes, he draws on the city's cultural funds himself. For every victory, the players also have one wish, and so the new team bus is also to be financed from city funds. Barbara, however, takes a stand, the team should even get a coach and he will promptly move into their apartment.

Since the mayor can only be excited about football, Barbara puts together a women's football team among her students, which is soon more successful than the men's. But when women want a new youth club after a win, good advice is expensive. The wish has to be fulfilled for reasons of equality, but there is no money. In the dilapidated Schützenhaus, which has been empty for many years and is in ruins, the women find suitable accommodation for their club. The local footballers are involuntarily turned into demolition workers with the help of a small party and a subsequent brawl in the house, and tensions arise. The leader of the women, Brigitte, fell in love with the leader of the men, Bernd, who was transferred to the archive by the mayor from the locksmith's post so that he is always available for football. Barbara, in turn, is courted by the mayor - not only because he really loves her, but also to be able to control her better. In the end, Barbara succeeds in ensuring that the mayor's semi-legal machinations, which only promote football and nothing else, come to an end. The mayor is involuntarily sent on a one-year course, but it turns out that he and Barbara become a couple.

On the initiative of Barbara, in turn, all of Sonnethal's residents took part in the beautification of the city, which is now being given street lighting, among other things, and through this effort appears in the newspaper for the first time. And finally there are also Brigitte and Bernd, who gives up work in the archive.

production

Don't cheat, darling! was Joachim Hasler's third and last film, in which the pop star Frank Schöbel appeared , after Reise im Marriage Bed and Hot Summer . The film was shot in Quedlinburg and premiered on June 28, 1973 on the iga open-air stage in Erfurt .

The film is designed as a musical. The compositions are by Gerhard Siebholz , Frank Schöbel and Gerd Natschinski . The lyrics are from Wolfgang Brandenstein , Heinz Kahlow and Dieter Schneider .

  • Prelude (K .: Gerhard Siebholz)
  • The sun keeps coming back (K .: Gerhard Siebholz, Frank Schöbel / T .: Dieter Schneider)
  • If we want, then we go (K .: Gerhard Siebholz / T .: Dieter Schneider)
  • The evening is hot (K .: Gerhard Siebholz / T. Wolfgang Brandenstein )
  • I see them (K .: Frank Schöbel, Gerhard Siebholz / T .: Wolfgang Brandenstein)
  • But it would be nice (K .: Frank Schöbel, Gerhard Siebholz / T .: Dieter Schneider)
  • If a man is in his 40s (K./T .: Gerd Natschinski ), sung by Horst Schulze
  • I'll kill him (K./T.Gerd Natschinski), sung by Chris Doerk, Dorit Gäbler, Karel Fiala
  • Final (K .: Gerhard Siebholz / T .: Wolfgang Brandenstein)

In addition to the actors, dancers from Berlin's Friedrichstadtpalast , the Small Academic Theater for Opera and Ballet Leningrad and the children's ballet “Morena” dance and play .

criticism

Contemporary critics praised the film music: “You can hear the hits on offer, and you can also watch the performers. [...] If the singers just have to 'play' [...] the film drags itself from scene to scene, one hopes for the next song title ”. Renate Holland-Moritz stated that “there has not been anything so stupid, constructed and witless [... like this film] since DEFA was founded”.

The film service said Don't cheat, darling! as "undemanding conversation with the GDR hit stars Chris Doerk and Frank Schöbel, who could not build on the success of their film 'Hot Summer' in 1968."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Beckmann. In: Filmspiegel , 16, 1973.
  2. ^ Renate Holland-Moritz. In: Eulenspiegel , 29, 1973.
  3. ↑ Don't cheat, darling! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used