Raven Father (film)

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Movie
Original title Raven father
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1986
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Karl-Heinz Heymann
script Karl-Heinz Heymann
production DEFA , KAG "Babelsberg"
music Rolf Fischer
camera Andreas Köfer
cut Vera Nowark
occupation

Rabenvater is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Karl-Heinz Heymann from 1986.

action

Jonathan stayed with a friend and went to work very early in the Halle cinema Capitol, where he worked as a film poster painter and, as always, he got some breakfast for his two colleagues beforehand. But today something is different, because he decided to visit his son David on his ninth birthday, which is why he asks his boss what he is giving his grandchildren for this holiday. Jonathan has been divorced for two years, has skipped regular meetings with his boy and has therefore not seen him for a long time. So he goes to his former apartment to bring him a present that, as suggested by his boss, consists of a car racing track. David accepts the appearance of his father without surprise and is very happy about it. Even when Franz, the new partner of the divorced wife Jonathans, arrives to play with the little birthday guests, there are no problems. Although minor tensions cannot be overlooked, everything goes very calmly and David is still in bed, looking at the present his father has brought with him.

Jonathan wants to keep in touch with his son and now tries to see him as often as possible. Mother Ruth and Franz, who is also very fond of David and is accepted by him, are tolerant towards Jonathan and let him be. One day they ask him to take David with them because they want to attend a party together. To make things easier, Ruth has brought a roast that has already been prepared and that only needs to be pushed into the oven for an hour. David is curious, pulls the pot out of the tube and pours the hot fat over his forearm. In the emergency room of the hospital, the employees refuse to accept Jonathan because he is no longer a legal guardian, so the mother is taken away. She comes with Franz, of course, and while the two men have to wait in the hallway, they get closer to each other exchanging childhood memories and thus finally bury their thoughts of competition. It is agreed, with Ruth of course, that the boy can visit Jonathan whenever he wants on the weekend.

And yet there are sometimes problems. Jonathan wants to go on a spontaneous trip with David in the summer, but he is already on a bus to a holiday camp on the Baltic Sea. After that, Ruth and Franz want to travel with himself. So Jonathan takes his motorcycle and follows the bus. David sees him and uses the next stop in a parking lot to ride with his father in the sidecar of his machine. He used a trick to prevent his absence from being noticed on the bus. Jonathan informs Ruth by phone and promises to take him to summer camp. After a few adventurous days as a hitchhiker , the motorcycle has meanwhile been stolen, David can be delivered to the warehouse.

Production and publication

Rabenvater was filmed on ORWO-Color by the Babelsberg Artistic Working Group and had its world premiere on April 30, 1986 at the Berlin Kino International . The film was shown on television for the first time on May 13, 1988 on the 2nd channel of East German television.

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Barbara Rogall and Dieter Wolf , the scenario comes from Thomas Knauf .

criticism

Günter Sobe remarked in the Berliner Zeitung :

“In all seriousness, the conflict proves every artistic interpretation right. That could be thought casually or morally as a comedy or as a tragedy, as a tragic comedy or sentimental colportage, but how can you imagine it as none of this? As I turn it around, I can't figure out what the makers were trying to do. A certain emptiness seems to be carried into the scenery - sometimes specifically illustrated with images. "

In the Critique of the New Germany , Horst Knietzsch complained that only about a dozen visitors were in the cinema and further stated:

“But even a fully occupied house would certainly not have been enthusiastic. On the other hand, the film lacked a dramatic escalation of the conflict, as episodic things are offered in cool equilibrium; with brittle dialogues that contribute little to an in-depth characterization of the characters. "

The lexicon of international films writes that this is a somewhat viscous DEFA film that only pretends to be real everyday conflicts and rather projects dream ideas of possible partnerships.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 3, 1986, p. 11
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 8, 1986, p. 6
  3. ↑ Raven Father. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 23, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used