Without a passport in someone else's bed
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Without a passport in someone else's bed |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vladimír Brebera |
| script |
Jurek Becker Kurt Belicke |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal" |
| music | Karel Krautgartner |
| camera | Horst Hardt |
| cut | Wally cucumber |
| occupation | |
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Without a passport in strange beds is a German film comedy by DEFA by Vladimír Brebera from 1965 .
action
Václav Jelínek from Prague is on the way home. In East Berlin , he has to change to his connecting train, which will not leave for an hour. He packs his suitcase and passport on the train and decides to spend the time in the fair. Here he shoots himself a stuffed bear and then drives a lap of the ferris wheel. When he is at the highest point of the lap, the wheel suddenly stops. A fault in the electronics means that Jelínek has to wait a long time in the air. When he is back on solid ground, his train has left for Prague. He does not know that his fellow travelers have handed over his luggage to the railroad worker Müller, who makes the announcements in the station. Müller, on the other hand, had an unfriendly encounter with Jelínek when the Prague man came into his cabin and asked about the departure of the train for Prague, while Müller tried in vain to get him away from the microphone. Jelínek is now wandering around the station and overhears Müller talking to his replacement about Jelínek. It's about recognizing the man who owns the suitcase and passport. Jelínek believes that he is being wanted in the speaker's booth because of the incident and is fleeing. He goes to see the Ferris wheel owner Wilhelm Kabuffke, who sends him to the Czechoslovak embassy in Berlin. However, it's Friday evening and the embassy has already closed and won't reopen until Monday. Trude Kabuffke meanwhile reproaches her husband for sending Jelínek away, after all, he is to blame for his situation. When Jelínek comes back to the hustle and bustle a little later, he is allowed to spend the night in Kabuffke's friend's caravan.
The next morning Jelínek wakes up because the fun fair is driving. The owner is on his way to another fairground and has completely forgotten his sleeping guest. Jelínek jumps off while driving and stops at a lake. Here he bathes and meets Susanne in the water. Both talk and are observed from the bank by Susi's fiancé Eddy. The director on television is jealous. Susi takes Jelínek with her on her bike, but both are stopped by the police because the bike is not a tandem. To save Jelínek from a passport control, Susi pretends to be her fiancé, who has to go to the train station. The police take Jelínek to the train station. Instead of going to the station, Jelínek goes back to the Kabuffkes and Wilhelm is surprised to see him again so soon. Jelínek, however, talks about bathing in the lake and the beautiful Susi who lent him her cardigan, and the Kabuffkes believe that he only dreamed it all. Wilhelm Kabuffke wants to see a football game that is popular. The announcer is Susi and Jelínek goes to the broadcasting center in Berlin-Adlershof to give her back the cardigan. He surprises her in conversation with her fiancé Eddy, in which she has just made it clear to him that she has never seen Jelínek before and will never see Jelínek again. When he stands in front of her, Eddy goes upset. Susi, in turn, takes care of Jelínek, gets him a suit from the DFF's clothing store and invites him to dinner in the evening. While he is in her apartment and she is buying food, Eddy appears with flowers of reconciliation and is surprised again to meet Jelínek in the apartment. Even after dinner, Jelínek stays with Susi and Eddy and all three go to a bar. Here they meet young Yvonne, whom Eddy would occupy in his next play. However, he is not convinced that Yvonne is multi-faceted, and Susi is also against an occupation. Suddenly Susi and Jelínek have disappeared and Eddy rushes to Susi's apartment and takes up post in front of the house. Jelínek, however, did not go into the apartment, but went to the fairground. Since everyone is already sleeping there, he goes to the train station, where he is recognized as the man without a passport. He flees again and involuntarily spends the night in a refrigerated train wagon. The next morning he appears freezing at the fair. Wilhelm Kabuffke explains to him that he has already called the police because Jelínek had disappeared. He in turn finds the keys to Susi's apartment in his jacket pocket and goes to her. He thinks she is still asleep and sets the breakfast table. Susi, however, has long been awake and has gone to the door to Eddy, who has stayed on the bench in front of the door all night. She convinces him that she was alone for the night, but is expected at Jelínek's apartment. Eddy goes angry and Susi is also not very enthusiastic that Jelínek has developed a talent for inappropriate opportunities.
Jelínek is contrite and wants to make amends for everything. He goes to the DFF with Wilhelm Kabuffke to speak to Eddy, but he is in his weekend house by the lake where Jelínek had bathed the day before. Both men go to the property. The police are going there too, they're looking for Jelínek. Susi is on the way to the house and in the end Yvonne and Trude go there too. In the house there is a reconciliation between Eddy and Susi. Shortly afterwards, Jelínek and Wilhelm Kabuffke appear and the mix-ups clear up. The police, on the other hand, have difficulties seeing through the chaos, believing from the meeting with Susi and Jelínek that the latter was Susi's fiancé and either Kabuffke or Eddy Jelínek from Prague. That Yvonne wants to prove her versatility right now and spontaneously plays a scene of a play in which she gives each of those present different names is not very helpful. In the end, however, everything clears up and those present go to the train station. Jelínek receives his luggage and ID and goes to the train to Prague. It won't leave for half an hour and Jelínek wants to ride the Ferris wheel again. Again his gondola stops at the highest point and he calls down that he has to catch his train.
production
Without a passport in someone else's bed , the working title Das Riesenrad was filmed in Berlin from 1964. The costumes were created by Elisabeth Selle , the film structures are by Ernst-Rudolf Pech . The film premiered on November 11, 1965 and was released in GDR cinemas the following day.
criticism
The film dienst described the comedy as “pleasant entertainment staged with a slight irony” - an assessment shared by the majority of the critics. Gisela Steineckert wrote in Eulenspiegel that one was “not carried away by the film, but also not bored”, while other critics described the film as “light as a feather and happy” and “hearty, painful cinema”.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 443 .
Web links
- Without a passport in strange beds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Without a passport in someone else's bed at filmportal.de
- Without a passport in someone else's bed at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ See defa.de
- ↑ Without a passport in someone else's bed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Gisela Steineckert in: Eulenspiegel , No. 49, 1965
- ^ G. Herrmann in: Berliner Zeitung in the evening , November 12, 1965.
- ^ Horst Knietzsch in: Neues Deutschland , November 14, 1965.