Journey to the marriage bed

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Movie
Original title Journey to the marriage bed
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1966
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Joachim Hasler
script Maurycy Janowski
Joachim Hasler
Claus Hammel
Dieter Scharfenberg (Dramaturgy)
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
Horst Dau (production manager)
music Gerd Natschinski
camera Joachim Hasler
Hans Reinecke
cut Hildegard Tegener
occupation

Reise ins Ehebett is a German DEFA music film by Joachim Hasler from 1966. It was the first film in which the singer Frank Schöbel appeared as an actor.

action

The young boatswain on a merchant marine ship is good at work, but always causes trouble on shore leave with women’s stories, especially since the entire troop follows his example. The police are permanent guests of the captain and the landlords write down the broken objects during the brawls so that they can present the bill to the seafarers before casting off.

It has to be different, the captain decides and hires the young Polish journalist Eva, who is supposed to seduce the boatswain and then let him down. In reality, however, the captain hopes that through the more difficult conquest of the woman, his boatswain will fall in love with her and eventually consent to marriage. To achieve this, Eva should pretend to be the captain's friend. The boatswain might react jealously, but on the high seas it becomes apparent that there is a stowaway on board: the red-haired singer Mary Lou had spontaneously fallen in love with the boatswain on land, who, like every woman, had given her his apartment key, and herself secretly embark on the ship. She is discovered and again reveals to Eva what is actually planned. Eva, Mary Lou and the bosun spend an unplanned night in a ship's cabin, but the bosun tells the captain and the chief the next morning that he does not want to marry either woman.

Things get complicated. The boat boy Moses falls in love with Eva and the captain develops feelings for Mary Lou. Only at the shore in Leningrad Eva and the boatman come closer. Back home, the police await the ship and arrest the stowaway Mary Lou. The captain picks her up at the court - the verdict has not yet been finalized - and confesses his love for her on a boat tour. Her planned performances as a singer are now canceled.

The boatman in turn follows Eva, who has just missed her bus home, and takes her to his apartment. When he carries her into the bedroom, another friend of the boatswain is already in bed there. The boatswain and Eva run out of the apartment and find that they have to look for new accommodation.

production

The film was shot outside in Rostock and Warnemünde as well as in Leningrad . After a preview at the end of March 1966 in Ilmenau , Reise ins Marriage Bed celebrated its premiere on April 7, 1966 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . Since almost all domestic film production of the year was banned in the GDR in the 1966 film year, Journey to the Marriage Bed advanced to become one of the most successful films of the year in the GDR alongside The Sons of the Great Bear . Last but not least, one of the reasons was Frank Schöbel's first film appearance , who at this point was already having his first successes as a singer.

The film contains numerous hits that were composed by Gerd Natschinski . The lyrics are from Jürgen Degenhardt . The tracks were sung by Frank Schöbel, the Franke Echo Quintet , Robby Lind , the Kolibris and the Columbia Quartet. Among other things were included:

  • Baby you are ok (Gerd Natschinski / Jürgen Degenhardt)
  • Better look away (Gerd Natschinski / Jürgen Degenhardt)

criticism

Contemporary criticism stated that the journey into the marriage bed only “takes place on a slightly agitated sea. And yet, as the eyes and ears show when going to the cinema, this does not detract from the general joy. […] The filmmakers tried to create a seamless connection between the real story, musical numbers and dance scenes; how a choreographic scene management is characteristic for long passages of the film. The influences of the musical are unmistakable here. "

Renate Holland-Moritz found that only Werner Lierck found humorous moments in the film: "On the rest of the film, [the authors] manage with puns and frivolities, all of which are as old-fashioned as petty-bourgeois."

The film service called Reise ins Marriage Bed a "dramaturgically weak musical comedy with the GDR hit star Frank Schöbel in his first film role."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Habel, p. 479.
  2. ^ Friedrich Salow. In: film mirror . Issue 9, 1966.
  3. ^ Renate Holland-Moritz. In: Weltbühne , 21, 1966.
  4. ↑ Journey to the marriage bed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used