Olle Henry

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Movie
Original title Olle Henry
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1983
length 101 minutes
Rod
Director Ulrich White
script Ulrich White
production DEFA , KAG Johannisthal
music Peter Rabenalt
camera Roland Dressel
cut Evelyn Carow
occupation

Olle Henry is a DEFA feature film directed by Ulrich Weiß in 1983.

action

Henry Wolters, a former professional boxer whose career was destroyed by the Second World War, is waiting for a train to arrive with a lot of people who are on a hamster ride. Here in the waiting hall of the train station you can already see that a cigarette was the most important currency at this time shortly after the war. When the train pulls into the station and everyone wanted to take the train, Henry can only buy a place on the buffers between two wagons with the help of half a pack of cigarettes . During the journey he falls off the train, probably not all by himself. That is the moment when he meets the animation girl Xenia, who has moved into a discarded railway car as her home nearby and takes him up.

For the run-down and hopeless Henry it is apparently the first place he has had in a long time, because he has to sleep in for several days. Xenia takes care of him like a mother and when he wakes up he gets enough to eat. It is important for them to have a man with them who can save them from the unwelcome attacks of intrusive men. When she finds out he was a former boxer, she believes he can make a comeback and uses all of her relationships to get him back into the boxing business. New hope also sprouts in Henry, because he does not want to be endured by the woman he has fallen in love with.

At the first attempt it turns out that he should work as a fairground boxer, where the competitions were discussed and the result was already determined beforehand. He was reluctant to do that and they kept looking for a real boxing stable . That was also found and Henry was rebuilt there in a sporty manner. Xenia continued to take care of the weight build-up. But Henry was no longer the youngest and fastest. In his first official competition he knocked his opponent to the ground in the first round, but the win of the fight could not be recognized due to the (premature) sounding of the gong. So the fight went on and Henry suffered a terrible defeat in the next few rounds that put him into a coma.

After his discharge from the hospital, he was greeted again with a small reception in the night bar where Xenia worked. It was evident that he will be handicapped for the future of his life. But Xenia does not let him fall, even if the next problem is already pending: Her abode, the discarded railway wagon, is being transported away.

production

Dieter Schubert was responsible for the scenario and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Gabriele Herzog . Kerstin Sanders was the dubbing voice of Anikó Sáfár (Xenia). The outdoor shots for the hype in the film were made in Berlin-Mitte on the inner courtyard of what would later become the Kunsthaus Tacheles .

The DEFA studio for feature films (artistic working group "Johannisthal") shot Olle Henry on ORWO -Color. The film had its premiere in the cinema on November 24, 1983 in the Berlin Kino International and the television premiere took place on November 3, 1985 in the first program of the GDR television .

criticism

Horst Knietzsch had the impression in Neues Deutschland that the audience exuded a cool apathy. The lack of words on the way to the exit perhaps had a little to do with perplexity, because it was probably not a deep silence.

In the Neue Zeit , Helmut Ullrich realized that it couldn't be the entire picture of that time that was shown here. It should only be a part of it, no more and no less, but what it hit was also part of it. The film highlighted what war means by showing the legacy a war leaves behind and how difficult it is to recapture peace afterwards.

For the lexicon of international film , this film is a stylishly staged, metaphor-rich love story that sees itself as a parable on violence and morality.

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  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, November 30, 1983, p. 4
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of November 25, 1983, p. 6
  3. ↑ Olle Henry. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 23, 1985, p. 7