Sabine Kleist, 7 years ...
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| Original title | Sabine Kleist, 7 years ... |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 73 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Helmut Dziuba |
| script | Helmut Dziuba |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Berlin" |
| music | Christian Steyer |
| camera | Helmut Bergmann |
| cut | Barbara Simon |
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Sabine Kleist, 7 years old… is a German children's film by Helmut Dziuba from 1982.
action
The girl Sabine Kleist loses her parents in a car accident. It is taken to a children's home, where Edith becomes his most important caregiver. When Edith gives up her job due to her pregnancy, Sabine reacts disturbed and defiant and hits Edith's stomach. Shortly after Edith left, the seven-year-old ran away from the home.
Sabine wanders through Berlin. She rides circus horses through the city at night and spends the first night at the Eros circus , mingles in a funeral party and visits a maternity ward, always hoping to find Edith. She was at her home too, but Edith was not there. A youth from the FDJ gives Sabine 50 pfennigs and she buys biscuits from them. A short time later she meets the Polish boy Stanislav, who has lost his mother in the crowd and is crying. She cheers him up, happy about the new playmate, gives him her cookies, splashes in a Berlin fountain and goes to church with him. Later, however, she takes him to the police, where she is promptly recognized. Before you can take it up, Sabine has already disappeared again. A large-scale search for her begins.
She spends the late afternoon in a new building area, where she meets the drunken Karl Schindler. He is mocked by the young people for his staggering walk, but Sabine helps him. He has just come from a party at work where he has retired and is grateful to the girl for helping him find his house number. Since he realizes that she is in need, she is allowed to spend the night in his apartment. The next morning they both have breakfast and Sabine tells him that she has run away from the home. She offers to stay with him, but he only wants to visit her at home every now and then. That's not enough for her. When Karl phoned the home and accepted a caretaker job there, he wanted to tell the girl the good news immediately, but Sabine had already run away again.
She is now being searched for all over town. The heavily pregnant Edith also blames herself and is with her husband in town looking for her. Meanwhile, Sabine takes part in a boat trip for children of single mothers in a company and spends the afternoon playing ball with a family on the beach. However, she always has to recognize that she doesn't belong and that everyone only lets her participate because they assume that Sabine has her own family. Sabine spends the next night in an empty house. That will be torn down in front of their eyes the next day. Now she goes to a police car and voluntarily lets herself be brought back to the home. The new teacher is already waiting for her and Edith is there too. She pretends to just visit her. Sabine now carefully grabs Edith's stomach and a little later goes back to the home, hopping at the side of the new teacher.
production
Director Helmut Dziuba had already made children's films before Sabine Kleist, 7 years old . Apply Rotschlipse (1978), subtitle A pioneering story from the twenties , When Unku was Ede's girlfriend (1980, action time also the 1920s) and Jan auf der Zille (1985, action time 1934) as Dziuba's “proletarian trilogy”, he co-directed Sabine Kleist, 7 years old… for the first time a present-day story in a documentary style. Leading actress Petra Lämmel had just finished 1st grade when Dziuba cast her as Sabine Kleist for his children's film.
The premiere of the film took place on September 2, 1982 in the Berlin Kino International . In the FRG the film was shown for the first time in February 1983 at the KinderFilmFest of the Berlin International Film Festival .
The film first ran on GDR television on December 24, 1983 on DFF 1 . For the broadcast at 8 p.m., the first few seconds of black and white photos showing the accident of the parents and the admission of Sabine Kleist to the children's home had to be cut out of “consideration for the special psychological situation of the audience and in the interest of public impact”.
criticism
The contemporary critics wrote that the message of the film - "treat each other carefully and attentively" - "and the narrative by means of which it is passed on are very compelling: quietly and with respect for every honest person, with many recognizable details, reactions , Colors. ”The plot is structured safely and sensitively and the script and direction form a“ plausible, touching unit ”. Sabine Kleist, 7 years old… is “a very delicate film. Despite its actually conventional episode line, it sweeps away common conventions, because the quickly recognizable character drawers, the nagging bad guys or the good-hearted fat bellies are missing. "
Other reviewers criticized that in the film "everything is a little too nice and without barbs". Although director Dziuba succeeded with the film "without a doubt the success of his previous work", the film still has some inconsistencies, for example none of the adults ask about the child's origin. “Fortunately, that only slightly reduces the credibility,” the critic concluded.
For the lexicon of international film , Sabine Kleist, 7 years old, was ... "an unsentimental and sensitive children's film that conveys its message worth considering in an easily understandable form."
Awards
At the 3rd National Festival for Children's Films in the GDR in cinema and television in Gera, the film was awarded the Golden Spatz in 1983 in the feature film category (expert jury). At the 1983 Berlinale , the film received the CIFEJ (Center International du Film pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse) award.
Leading actress Petra Lämmel was honored with the Jury Prize for Children's Films at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1983; in addition, the film received the prize of the pioneer organization of the USSR. At the Alençon film festival , Sabine Kleist, aged 7… received second prize in 1987.
The film received the state rating "valuable".
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films. The complete documentation of all DEFA feature films from 1946 to 1993. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 501–502.
- Sabine Kleist, 7 years . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 301-303.
Web links
- Sabine Kleist, 7 years ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sabine Kleist, 7 years… at filmportal.de
- Sabine Kleist, 7 years ... at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Habel, p. 501.
- ^ Letter from the management of GDR television to General Director Hans Dieter Mäde. Quoted from Ralf Schenk (ed.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (ed.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 281.
- ↑ a b Günter Agde: Pay attention to the other. "Sabine Kleist, 7 years ..." . In: Filmspiegel , No. 19, 1982, p. 14.
- ^ Regine Sylvester in: Tribüne , September 6, 1987.
- ↑ Heinz Kersten in: RIAS Berlin (early review) , September 3, 1982.
- ^ Hans-Dieter Tok: Desire for love . In: Wochenpost No. 39, September 24, 1982.
- ↑ Sabine Kleist, 7 years… In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed December 20, 2017 .
- ↑ See materials for the film (pdf; 98 kB)