Nobody has stayed at the top yet

Movie
Original title	Nobody has stayed at the top yet
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1980
length	84 minutes
Rod
Director	Eberhard Schäfer
script	Peter Palm Eberhard Schäfer Hans Heinrich
production	DEFA on behalf of East German television
music	Helmut Nier
camera	Michael Göthe Hans Heinrich
cut	Christa Helwig
occupation
Heinz Rennhack : Willi Zubrodt Jürgen Zartmann : Kunkel flight instructor Alfred Struwe : Airfield manager Behrens Solveig Müller : Christine Linde Karin Düwel : Waitress Anja Viola Schweizer : Trautchen Werner Senftleben : Karl Sussek Gisbert-Peter Terhorst : flight instructor Siggi Jürgen Frohriep : Head of Department Degner Fred Delmare : Ringmaster Fred Düren : Bernd Storch : Jumping student Rüdiger Joswig : flight instructor Michael Klobe : Jumping student Willi Schrade : Jumping student Ernst Georg Schwill : Jumping Students Siegfried Seibt : gatekeeper Ursula Staack : flight instructor Susann Anacker : Jumping student Dieter Okras : Jumping student

Nobody has stayed up there is a comedy by film director Eberhard Schäfer produced by the DEFA studio for feature films (Potsdam-Babelsberg) for GDR television in 1979/1980 . The plot is based on the feature film Quax, the breakaway pilot from 1941.

action

Willi Zubrodt is delegated by his department to a skydiving course at GST . Since he does not take the discipline so strictly, has no respect for the trainers and does not fit into the collective, the trainers try to demonstrate him and thus force him to be expelled from the course. The attempts to show him gaps in theory and body condition, however, fail thoroughly. Zubrodt manages to turn the tables every time.

Because of his lack of discipline, however, the district management of the GST should decide whether he will remain in the course. When the first parachute jump was to take place, however, Zubrodt stayed on the plane out of fear. His comrades help out on another flight. Landed far outside the target area, Zubrodt is driven by a woman near the training camp. At the airport management it turns out that this woman is Christine Linde from the GST district management. Since she has developed sympathy for Zubrodt, she decides to give him a second chance.

When Zubrodt's colleagues visit the training place to see their "hero" parachuting, he starts another flight with Christine Linde. The jump should be canceled because of the weather, but Zubrodt jumps anyway and Christine Linde follows him. While a search campaign is started at the apprenticeship, the Zubrodt and Linde, who have strayed a long way, come closer.

Christine Linde is later taken in a car while Zubrodt has to continue on his way back on foot. Plagued by self-doubt, he passes a construction site where a woman is trying to get into a locked construction trailer. When he realizes that it is about a sick child, he steals a heavy truck and drives the child to the hospital. This is where the trainers and his department head finally find him.

In the final scene, Christine Linde and Willi Zubrodt can be seen jumping out of a plane as the bridal couple.

criticism

"Comedy of GDR television, in which the pre-military training within the GST (Society for Sport and Technology) is advertised with comical means."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nobody has stayed at the top yet. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .