Review at midnight

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Movie
Original title Review at midnight
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1962
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Gottfried Kolditz
script Kurt Bortfeldt ,
Gerhard Bengsch
production DEFA , Artistic Working Group "60"
music Gerd Natschinski
camera Erich Gusko
cut Hilde Tegener
occupation

Revue at midnight is a German musical film of the DEFA of Gottfried Kolditz from the year 1962nd

action

One day three important people in the filmmaking world are kidnapped: film architect Jens Holle, composer Herbert Schöniger and dramaturge Eberhard Gallstein find themselves in the house of film producer Otto Kruse, who wants to get them to collaborate on a revue film through the campaign . Author Paul Biesack was also supposed to be kidnapped, but he suspected the plan and refused, so that the little composer and ex-plumber Alexander Ritter joined the group instead. Alexander is enthusiastic about the idea of ​​the revue film, but the other three see it as too big a risk and finally secretly flee the villa.

Production assistant Claudia Glück is not very enthusiastic about the situation: While she would have trusted the experienced filmmakers, she previously experienced Alexander as reckless and irresponsible. Alexander seems to confirm it, since he flatly rejects the suggestion made by Knüller to integrate Schlager into the film , as he does not want to see canned music in the film. Claudia accuses Alexander of being only a “half-finished person”. When Holle, Schöniger and Gallstein decide, together with Biesack, to get on board in view of the ongoing preparations for the film, Alexander gets out with a pout and retires to Biesack's apartment. The little affair with Claudia is over before it really started, and Claudia promptly reproaches herself. Director Knüller also needs Alexander to close the film on a film within a film with a happy ending. Only Biesack finds out where Alexander is hiding and has him brought to the set in an unconventional way. There is a reconciliation between Alexander and Claudia including a kiss and a scoop is happy about the successful end of the film.

production

The film was shot under the working titles whipping boy and nobody wants it cold . It had its premiere on July 7, 1962 in the Colosseum cinema in Berlin .

Julia Axen , Helga Brauer , Fanny Daal , Hartmut Eichler , Fred Frohberg and Günter Hapke sing in a revue scene . The film shows dancers from the ballet of the German State Opera. The DEFA symphony orchestra and the dance orchestra of the Berliner Rundfunk will play.

criticism

The contemporary criticism particularly criticized the unsustainable plot of the film: “There is no real conflict between the lovers. And so its appearance and thus the plot of the film is largely reduced to an interruption of the revue scenes. "

The lexicon of international films stated: “Largely lively and full of self-deprecating allusions, the originality is only lost at the end in conventional show numbers. Noteworthy are the vocal performances by Manfred Krug, inspired by jazz and soul. Spectacle made in 4-channel magnetic sound and wide screen. "

Also Cinema evaluated the film positive: "The then popular as a singer Manfred Krug mimes the revue star and proves that might arise from Hollywood format in Babelsberg films. The work boasts great features, great scope pictures and tricks and belies prejudices about the Eastern film! Conclusion: Who would have thought that: a great Eastern Revue! "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Jelenski in: Berliner Zeitung , August 22, 1962.
  2. ↑ Review at midnight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 3, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Review at midnight. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 3, 2018.