Brush Heinrich (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Brush equipment |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Knötzsch |
| script | Werner Bernhardy |
| camera | Ursula Arnold |
| cut | Hildegard Tetzlaff-Urban |
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Brush Heinrich is an artist drama conceived for the television of the GDR from 1979. The name goes back to an alleged nickname Heinrich Zille , whose life story is depicted.
content
Berlin 1925. The first Zille ball is being prepared. A journalist visits the old Zille to write a feature section about the namesake. Looking back, his story begins on the day of 1907 when he and his friend Gustav Nogler were fired after 30 years of employment by the authorized officer Hübel of the “Photographic Society”.
A difficult time begins for both of them because their families need the weekly wages to survive. Zille, who accuses Hübel of thinking too socialistically, has to feed himself and his wife Hulda from now on with his drawings from the poor milieu. Nogler is hoping for a state job as a drawing teacher. But as a "peace invalid" he is unfit for civil service. On Zille's advice, he applied for a pension because his injury was willfully inflicted on him as a soldier. When his wife Lena leaves him, Nogler takes his own life. Lena never wants to hear from the Zilles again. Zille's drawings initially met with rejection from those he portrayed. The better off, including Hübel, see arms as a lucrative business investment.
Many years later, in the last year of the war, 1918. Lena Nogler lost her son Willi at the front. "Radieschen", once a street girl, now the postman as a helper, is unable to hand over the letter to the careworn woman.
Years go by again. Germany was hit by inflation. Zille is now a widower. His drawings are now recognized, they are even exhibited in the Berlin National Gallery and have been courted since he was appointed professor. But his heart and his care still go to those who do not know how to make ends meet for themselves or their families. When Hübler, meanwhile councilor of commerce, had his glamorous wife von Zille design a ball costume, he sketched her like Mrs. Nogler, just as she had met again after years in his favorite bar "Zum Nussbaum": blind and ragged. With the fee for this sketch, Zille will make an eye operation possible for her. At the end of the story, the journalist is left at a loss. Zille's comment: "Write that my name is Heinrich and I paint pictures."
literature
- Achim Klünder: Lexicon of television games. Volume III, De Gruyter, ISBN 3-598-10923-7 .