Red fox (film)
Rotfuchs is a 1973 television film by Manfred Mosblech based on a story by Peter Abraham . It was produced by DEFA for GDR television.
action
Eva Kolinauke is not really called that, because as a toddler she was put alone in a boat and rescued and adopted at a lock by the lock master Albert Kolinauke with his wife. Today, at the age of 28, she is a postman in a small town, has a son, no father, and is red-haired, which earned her the nickname Red Fox. She loves her job and is loved by all people too. The only thing missing is a man who loves her and wants to share his life with her. Not that she has no options, but she is looking for something solid.
That's when Eva gets to know the inland boatman Jon, who regularly has to go through the lock where she still lives. She notices that he is interested in her, which she replies, but he doesn't want to tell her that he loves her. Nevertheless, the two become a couple, and Jon finds his way to her through the room window in the lock keeper's house, even if he needs a ladder to do so. The result of this love is not long in coming, and Jon has to confess to Eva that he is already engaged. His fiancée Sabine, with whom he has lived for six years, studied vet on his advice, has now finished and both want to move to the area around the lock, where she has found a job as a deputy district vet. Eva then decides not to have the child.
In the hospital she changes her mind because the child is from the man she loves. After the birth of her second son, she constantly makes sure that Jon is confronted with it too. It shows up all the time when he has to go through the lock with his ship, also with a new hairstyle, similar to his fiancé, puts the stroller in a visible position and provocatively hangs up the baby clothes. Jon feels more and more drawn to Eva and slowly realizes that he loves her. He also notices that the relationship with Sabine, with whom he is now married, doesn't really have anything to do with love. It consists only of calculations and planning for the rest of your life and is devoid of any euphoria or emotion.
During a human smuggling, Jon calls out to Eva that he will come to visit her through the window that evening. But she insists that if he wants to come, he can only enter her through the door and with his feather bed - that is, permanently.
production
Peter Abraham wrote the story Red Fox especially for this film and was published in 1983 in the book Red Fox and Other People by Neues Leben . Most of the outdoor shots took place in Tangermünde and at the Wesenberg lock and its surroundings. Peter Abraham wrote the scenario and Manfred Dorschan was responsible for the dramaturgy .
The first broadcast of the film shot on ORWO-Color took place on December 24, 1973 in the first program of East German television . Eleven repetitions followed by 1990.
criticism
Peter Berger from the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland emphasized the cohesive collective performance of the film team, which over long stretches seemed to have been made from one piece.
The lexicon of international films described the red fox as a cheerful television film.
Web links
- Red Fox in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rotfuchs at filmportal.de
- Trailer for the film "Red Fox"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, December 27, 1973, p. 4
- ↑ Red Fox. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .