Summer paths
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Summer paths |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960/2014 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Lucke |
| script | Bernhard Seeger |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Joachim Werzlau |
| camera | Karl Plintzner |
| cut | Helga Emmrich |
| occupation | |
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Summer Roads is a German feature film of the DEFA of Hans Lucke from the year 1960 , according to the radio play The order of Bernhard Seeger from 1958. The film was banned immediately after its completion and is one of the early Keller films of the GDR . A version of the film reconstructed by the DEFA Foundation was only premiered in 2014 .
action
Ernst Wollni is party secretary in a large steel mill. In the late summer of 1958, he was commissioned to support the development of the LPG in the Brandenburg village of Schwarzwalde . Here he is expected by a friend from previous years, with whom he can also live. Together with Fritz Grimmberger, he deserted to the Red Army in World War II, where Fritz saved Ernst, who was shot while trying to escape. Grimmberger was employed on the estate in Schwarzwalde as a servant. After the war he got his own piece of land to cultivate through the land reform . Here he made it to the master farmer , but did not want to give up the field again.
His daughter Helga would like to study and later run a large poultry farm, while the father would prefer to keep her on the farm. He also forbids her to love the tractor driver Anton, because he works in the MTS , which does not want to provide him with any machines for field work because he refuses to join the LPG. With the money he had planned for his daughter, Grimmberger buys a pregnant mare in order to better manage the work in the field. Here he is betrayed by the large farmer Geiser, because the mare is sick and dies immediately after the premature birth of the foal, which also does not survive.
With the other farmers in the village, Wollni's ideas fell on fertile ground. The farmer Kleinmann builds a model of the place with the children of the village as it should look. Although the pastor is not enthusiastic that some houses should exceed the height of the church tower, that doesn't matter. Wollni and Grimmberger split more and more and when he hit his daughter too, Ernst moves out. Helga is also moving out of home and is given the desired place to study in the city. Of course, she will marry her beloved Anton. Now Fritz Grimmberger also recognizes the hopelessness of going it alone and is reconciled with Ernst Wollni. Together they go to the other villagers to celebrate the harvest festival.
production
After the completion of the film, shot in black and white in 1960, the acceptance commission certified that it had "serious artistic weaknesses that damaged his social concerns". Sommerwege would have "no answer to today's questions". The directorial debut of the actor Hans Lucke was not released for performance on September 2, 1960, and the material was stored in the GDR State Film Archive.
It was not until long after the fall of the Wall that the DEFA Foundation reconstructed the film, which could be described as a socialist homeland film, in cooperation with the film archive of the Federal Archives . The basis of the complex reconstruction of completely present mixed sound to which the the negative existing individual settings have been adjusted.
The premiere of Sommerwege took place on October 27, 2014 on the initiative of and in cooperation with the DEFA Foundation in the cinema of the German Historical Museum in the Berlin Zeughaus .
criticism
In 1961, Slatan Dudow said in a contribution to the discussion in Neues Deutschland : "It (also) remains incomprehensible why we (afterwards) shot the film 'Sommerwege', with which we would have driven the last good-willed viewer out of the cinema through boredom."
In the cultural calendar of the Berliner Zeitung , Ralf Schenk writes at the premiere in 2014 that the film is not a DEFA masterpiece, but is meaningful as a contemporary document.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 741-742 .
Web links
- Summer paths at filmportal.de
- Summer paths at the DEFA Foundation