Acid weeks - happy holidays

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Movie
Original title Acid weeks - happy holidays
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1950
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Wolfgang Schleif
script Hermann Werner Kubsch
Wolfgang Schleif
production DEFA
music Joachim Werzlau
camera Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler
cut Hermann Ludwig
occupation

Sour Weeks - Happy Holidays is a DEFA feature film by Wolfgang Schleif from 1950.

action

To commemorate the four-year existence of the state-owned large power plant in Henningsberg in the Zlttau lignite area, a festive event with a theater performance is planned. The older colleagues want to perform the cluttered and kitsch operetta “Gärtnerliesl”, which the young employees refuse. The problem, however, is that there is no more modern alternative to the piece. That's why rehearsals begin immediately, of course during working hours, to get many colleagues to participate.

The young people have their own program in mind, in which they want to show the everyday life of the work in a cabaret manner. They receive unexpected help from a nearby painter and his friend, a musician. Now they can also win over the operations manager, who provides the two artists with a room in the power plant for rehearsals, because the existing stage is occupied by the operetta. Here the situation is becoming more and more critical, because due to the decline in production, the meetings are no longer allowed to take place during working hours.

Suddenly the date for the celebrations is in jeopardy. Because of a breakdown on a turbine, all available labor is needed for the repair. It is now evident that the old and the young can stick together. Together they manage to get the turbine back in working order by the beginning of the festival. Now the “Gärtnerliesl” can be performed first, but it fails with kettledrums and trumpets. The still amused spectators of the interrupted play go to the square in front of the Kulturhaus, where the youth group's program is running. Here the old ones turn out to be good losers and join the general applause.

At the very end, a little love comes into play.

Poster for the film

production

The idea for the film came from Hermann Werner Kubsch and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Kurt Stahlschmidt .

Saure Wochen - frohe Feste is a black and white film made by the DEFA studio for feature films in the Atelier Berlin-Johannisthal and in the Kraftwerk Hirschfelde , which had its double premiere on November 24, 1950 in the Berlin DEFA film theater on Kastanienallee and in the Babylon cinema, also in Berlin . The television premiere took place on August 14, 1953 in the program of the Berlin TV Center.

criticism

Hermann Müller gave the impression in Neues Deutschland that he had never seen the audience laugh so persistently and heartily at a DEFA film.

Ro. Found in the Neue Zeit that the film, despite the expenditure on realistic scenery, does not succeed in showing the hard work as the secure, load-bearing foundation from which the happiness of rare celebrations can only grow out. The camera does not look closely and even the opportunity of the turbine failure, which has been told for a long time, is not used to illustrate the difficulties of the repair with detailed accuracy.

For the lexicon of international film , the film is a meager comedy that tries to make propaganda for the socialist competition with cheerful means. Out of the multitude of weak scenes, at best a few cabaret appearances by Blandine Ebinger and Hans Klering stood out.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 147
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland from November 26, 1950, p. 4
  3. ↑ Neue Zeit of November 25, 1950, p. 3
  4. ↑ Sour Weeks - Happy Holidays. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used