Sister agnes

Movie
Original title	Sister agnes
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1975
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Otto Holub
script	Hermann Rodigast Otto Holub
production	DEFA
music	Rudi Werion
camera	Peter Brand
cut	Lotti Mehnert
occupation
Agnes Kraus : Community nurse Agnes Feurig Jochen Thomas : Mayor Udo Patschek Micaëla Kreißler : Christa Patschek Edgar Külow : Kottusch Iris Bohnau : Katja Lehnert Gunter Sonneson : Frank Abendrot Fred Delmare : Brigadier Willi Karbunke Bärbel Bolle : Waltraud Schnabel Walter Richter-Reinick : Party Secretary Karl Willmann Marga Legal : Widow Lotte Zierlich Hilde Kneip : Meta Teschner Ursula Staack : Vacationer Heidi Weigelt : Ruth Mahr Walter Lendrich : Otto Teschner Frank Obermann : Bernd Dieter Vienna : Dr. Seifert Ruth Kommerell : Käthe Theresia Wider : Woman in Consumption Trude Brentina : Woman Nico Turoff : showman Willi Schrade : Man in motorcycle gear

Sister Agnes is a 1975 television film produced by DEFA and directed by Otto Holub . It was first broadcast on International Women's Day on March 8, 1975 on GDR television .

The shooting of the fictional Krummbach took place in Waltersdorf and Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains .

action

Sister Agnes, a single woman in her mid-fifties and a committed community nurse with a wit and a Berlin-style snout for more than thirty years , lives and works in the small village of Krummbach in Upper Lusatia , where she drives her white swallow to her patients and looks after them. She helps where she can and that is one of the reasons why she is so popular with her patients.

Sister Agnes doesn't just make friends because of her good-natured, but sometimes interfering nature. For example, she wants to solve the problem of limited living space in the town bypassing the municipal council in her own way. When she clashes with the new mayor about this, she goes on strike under the pretext of being sick and finally threatens to request a transfer to another location. This causes the resentment of the Krummbach citizens who do not want to lose their sister Agnes.

Although the feature film is primarily entertaining, social criticism of the conditions in the GDR in the 1970s is not spared: social commitment and moral courage of the individual - here in the form of sister Agnes - are met by officials from above who are loyal to the line, but unworldly.

meaning

The film Sister Agnes is still very well known, especially in the new federal states , and is associated with the GDR community nurse system. Based on the popular role of Sister Agnes , several comparable community sister model projects have been named after her in recent years . For example AGnES in Leipzig or agnes ^two in Brandenburg . In August 2018, initiatives based on these models were requested for NRW .

Web links

• Sister Agnes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sister Agnes Trailer (1:38 min) on YouTube
• Project start community nurse / Plus in Rhineland-Palatinate , press release of the DBfK from March 23, 2015
• Sister Agnes makes school nationwide , article in the Märkische Allgemeine on the model project in Brandenburg from November 15, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AGnES = A RZT-relieving, G emeinde- n vicinity, E -Health-supported, S ystemische intervention
2. ↑ Senior CDU calls for village sisters in NRW , article in the Rheinische Post from August 10, 2018 (link checked on August 22, 2018)