PS (1979)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title PS
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1979
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Roland Graef
script Roland Graef
production DEFA , "Red Circle" group
music Günther Fischer
camera Claus Neumann
cut Monika Schindler
occupation

PS is a German DEFA film directed by Roland Gräf in 1979.

action

Peter Seidel has no parents and grows up in a home. When he reaches his 18th birthday, he leaves the orphanage and moves to Berlin. Here he gets an apartment and a supervisor from the youth welfare office. He has work in a building brigade and would like to meet Marlies, who also comes from the home. With her he meets Sabine, who falls in love with him and with whom he starts an affair. But Sabine is in turn loved by Christoph, a student from Jena. This is of course more fond of her parents, a teacher couple, than Peter. He doesn't like the construction work and goes to the state-owned company Minol as a driver . During a trip to the countryside with friends, the car of his company, which he was driving without authorization, is demolished by hooligans. Peter is therefore arrested and sentenced to prison.

After his dismissal he gets work again in his former construction company. Now he seeks contact with his supervisor from the youth welfare office, Margot, an opera singer in her mid-thirties, divorced with a child. You fall in love and they are both happy for a long time. Sabine, who is pregnant by Peter, withdraws without saying anything when she notices this and marries Christoph. Marlies is now married too, she had never had stronger feelings for Peter. When Margot learns of Peter's child and Sabine's love for Peter, she separates from him. While Peter goes on a motorcycle tour to the Baltic Sea with friends, she moves back to Dresden. When he returns to Berlin, her apartment is already occupied by new tenants. Sabine is not happy with her husband and makes a suicide attempt - not the first. Although this is not without consequences, Christoph assures that he will continue to love her.

Peter is deeply hit, but he takes care of his child.

production

PS was shot on ORWO color by the artistic work group “Red Circle” and had its premiere on March 29, 1979 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . The first broadcast on the first program of the GDR television took place on November 11, 1980. The film was broadcast on November 11, 1982 on West German television (WDF).

Helga Schütz was responsible for the scenario and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Christel Gräf .

criticism

For Günter Sobe from the Berliner Zeitung , PS is one of the most important DEFA films of recent years and “Roland Graef's most mature film, also a film that gives hope that his future will be presented in an artistic cohesion and condensation that one can imagine has to catch up with its effect on the whole person from the first to the last film meter. "

The lexicon of international films wrote that the well-played and realistically designed film, albeit somewhat complicated in its dramaturgy, paints a critical counter-image to the hero of the workers 'and peasants' state, which earned it massive criticism from some cultural officials.

Awards

  • 1980: First prize of the III. Festival in Quito: Special Jury Prize to Director (Roland Gräf)
  • 1980: XXIII. Sanremo International Film Festival (1980)
  • 1980: I. National Feature Film Festival of the GDR Karl-Marx-Stadt: Actor Award for supporting role (Barbara Dittus)
  • 1980: First National Feature Film Festival of the GDR Karl-Marx-Stadt (1980): Prize for Director (Roland Gräf)
  • 1980: Film Festival of the Authors in Bergamo: Special Prize of the Jury (Roland Gräf)
  • 1980: Critics' Prize of the GDR: Best DEFA film of the year

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Sobe: The findings of Peter S. In: Berliner Zeitung. March 31, 1979, p. 6.
  2. ^ PS In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used