Difficult to get engaged
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Difficult to get engaged |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 86 minutes |
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| Director | Karl-Heinz Heymann |
| script | Karl-Heinz Heymann |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Red Circle" |
| music | Reinhard Lakomy |
| camera | Günter Haubold |
| cut | Helga Krause |
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Difficult to get engaged is a German feature film by the DEFA studio for feature films by Karl-Heinz Heymann from 1983 .
action
The 18 year old Brigitta and the 20 year old Wolfgang get to know each other while visiting a greenhouse with tropical plants. They feel drawn to each other from the very first eye contact; on the following days they meet again and again to drive his motorcycle through the area. During a walk, both of them think about what else they can do and Biggi, as Brigitta is called, suggests introducing him to her parents and then disappearing into her room. Despite his concerns that it would be a bit short-term, wool, as it is also called, accepts it and is welcomed. Only the jump into Biggi's room is delayed a bit until she abruptly interrupts the conversation at the living room table and simply takes him with her.
In the meantime, Wolle's mother has also found out that he has a girlfriend and tries to hear something out of him over lunch. But Wolle, who works as a locksmith in his mother's private locksmithing shop, does not want to go into it and disappears to make his way to Biggi. She works as an apprentice in a furniture shop and has no time because she wants to meet her mother in a café right away. Here she tells her that she should be delegated to study at a technical school , which means that she has to live in a boarding school in another city for three years and that means a separation from wool. When she learns that her mother's relationships are behind the delegation, Biggi is sure not to go to college. Biggi and Wolle spend most of their free time riding motorcycles and visiting a discotheque over the next few weeks , where they also meet Rudi, Wolles best friend.
Before long, Biggi tells her friend Bärbel that she is pregnant . Only wool does not yet know about it and all attempts to teach him that fail. While he picks up Biggi from the train station after vocational school, they can not continue because of a heavy load that is carefully driving through the small town . Again and again she tries to tell him about the pregnancy, but wool only has eyes for the transport. In passing, he explains to her that one of the directors is his father and is surprised to see his mother here too, although Wolfgang's father is said to have died for her for years. Wool repeatedly talks about his dreams of working remotely, preferably in Africa , while his mother says that he can even take over the business if he would make his master. But he replies that a decent job and a family cannot be all that one can expect from life. When Biggi finally wants to explain her condition to him, he interrupts her and explains that he has given notice in the locksmith's shop and will go to assembly in the future, a job that his friend Rudi arranged for him. Biggi is very disappointed about this, she has just turned down the study so as not to be separated from wool and when she can still tell him that she is pregnant, he reacts very angry, which leads to a real argument.
From now on, Wolle works with Rudi in a brigade that installs the masts for the electrification of the railway lines . Here he meets a girl in a bookstore who takes him to a party with friends, where he first introduces himself as an Italian. He only succeeds because he loves this language and has already learned some of it. But it won't be something really solid with the girl. When he is once again at home and wants to go to the dance, he meets at the bus stop randomly Biggi and offers casually to her because of the child engaged . She doesn't like the nature of the proposal at all, she breaks up with him and goes to a young man she has just met. After a night together, she leaves him not exactly happy. Then she decides to have an abortion performed. At the same time, there is trouble with wool on the construction site, as he is to be transferred to another department that is needed and where his skills can be further developed. But he does not agree with this and, despite this, volunteered for three years to serve in the NVA to become a non-commissioned officer .
Wolle's mother's birthday, but he's in bed with a cold and doesn't want to attend the party. But when he hears that Biggi has left a bouquet of flowers, he is immediately healthy again and runs after her. In the evening at the disco, he tells her that he wants to sign up for the army for three years, for which she has absolutely no understanding. During the dispute that now arises, she talks about the abortion, which in turn outrags him because, as he says, she had their child killed. The argument ends with Biggi calling him a pig and wool slapping her in the face . Back at his construction site, Wolle wants to meet the bookseller again, but she lets him understand that she is no longer interested in another relationship. When Biggi goes to the discotheque with her friend, she meets wool again, whom she still loves, which is why she confesses to her new boyfriend that their togetherness can have no future. That evening Biggi and Wolle find together again and want to try to go through life together, even if she studied for three years and he was in the army for three years.
production
Difficult to get engaged was filmed by the artistic working group “Red Circle” under the working title Von der Schwier zu betrloben on ORWO -Color and had its world premiere on February 24, 1983 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . The film was shown for the first time on January 29, 1985 in the second program on GDR television . In the Federal Republic of Germany it was broadcast on May 1, 1986 by ARD .
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Gabriele Kotte and the scenario comes from Karl-Heinz Heymann. Most of the shooting for the exterior shots took place in Jüterbog , but also for one scene in Berlin's Lychener Strasse.
criticism
Helmut Ullrich expressed himself as follows in the Neue Zeit :
"A Lovestory. Settled specifically in the here and now, without making an effort to address a major social problem background. Exactly at least the view of a milieu that is somewhat provincial boredom and indulgence (at least in the eyes of big city dwellers). "
Günter Sobe wrote in the Berliner Zeitung :
“It was the language that struck me first [about it], blunt, concise, sarcastic, fragmentary, sometimes not even looking for the entire sentence. Antisentimental (at least publicly). Film in which you can take part in the eternally new parlor game of how young people find each other and themselves. Without experience, that is the lot of the young. "
The lexicon of international films writes about the film that it only suggests and vaguely outlines its sources of conflict and the motivation of its people, although it is convincing in the description of the small town environment. It shows an authentic picture of the GDR, but remains on the surface, which is why it hardly stimulates reflection due to the brittle staging.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 527 to 528 .
Web links
- Difficult to get engaged in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Difficult to get engaged at filmportal.de
- Difficult to get engaged at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 15, 1983, p. 11
- ↑ Neue Zeit of February 25, 1983, p. 4.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 26, 1983, p. 7.
- ↑ Difficult to get engaged. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 20, 2019 .