Summer Love (1955)

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Movie
Original title Summer love
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Franz Barrenstein
script Max Jensen
production DEFA
music Hans-Hendrik Wehding
camera Karl Puth
cut Ruth Moegelin
occupation

Sommerliebe is a DEFA feature film by Franz Barrenstein from 1955 based on the story Eine kleine Sommerferienliebe by Gerhard Hardel from 1952.

action

Milli is 20 years old and an enthusiastic winter sports enthusiast, who, with her work colleagues (Lotte, Martha and Ilse) from a Berlin company, receives a vacation trip to the sea for good performance. During the journey they suffered a broken axle on their bus due to poor road conditions and now have to walk the last few kilometers to the FDGB holiday home "Heinrich Heine" in an ox cart . While her colleagues are still sleeping, Milli goes swimming in the Baltic Sea the next morning if the weather is nice . Here she meets Robby, who wants to draw her attention to the dangerous currents in the sea, but Milli has no interest in this. Robby is the nephew of the local beach chair rental company he is employed by and earns more money through this and other services that improve his income than in his learned profession as a car mechanic. Martha is delighted with this lazy Adonis and Milli irritates him with scratchiness, which is why the friends fall apart. But on the beach and dune, by the sea and in the forest, Milli feels more and more drawn to the bright, likeable boy.

Everything would be fine - because all annoying competitors are also eliminated in good time - if it wasn't for her colleague Lotte. She shattered the harmless pleasure by discovering that a young man, if he was to work as a lifeguard, had to be "a louse in the furs of society", unworthy of a progressive woman's heart, which Milli also realizes and gave him the beautiful one Amber, including the enclosed fossil, returns. That gives Robby food for thought and he now intends to work again as a car mechanic in a plant in Suhl , the director of which is on vacation in the same home. That even makes up for the strict Lotte, she drives together with Robby, following Milli, who is already sitting in the moving train, and nothing stands in the way of little or big luck. Since Milli also wants to spend her professional future in Suhl in order to be able to pursue her great passion as a skier there, one must assume that Robby and Milli will work and live together in the future.

production

The dramaturgy was in the hands of Gerhard Neumann.

Sommerliebe was shot as a black and white film by the DEFA studio for feature films and had its premiere on April 28, 1955 (according to other sources on April 20, 1955) in the Berlin DEFA film theater on Kastanienallee and in the Berlin Babylon cinema . Also on April 28, 1955, the film was shown on German television .

criticism

HUE suspected in the Berliner Zeitung that the less motivated and touching changes could possibly come from Hedwig Courths-Mahler's treasure trove of ideas for the sweet home. And these recipes shouldn't be immortalized.

For Gerhard Rostin from the Neue Zeit it was a love story that was not particularly captivating, let alone convincing, because the flat and colorless-looking main and secondary characters made it human on very weak legs. In the film, the powdering ideas were few and far between and the meager plot, as if chewing on a tough piece of satire, didn't get any better.

For the lexicon of international film , this film is an unrealistic and dramatically unsatisfactory comedy with flatly instructive ulterior motives.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 3, 1955, p. 3
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of May 3, 1955, p. 4
  3. ↑ Summer love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used