Meeting point Aimée

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Movie
Original title Meeting point Aimée
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Horst Reinecke
script Gerhard Neumann
production DEFA
music Hans-Hendrik Wehding
camera Erwin Anders
cut Christa Wernicke
occupation

Treffpunkt Aimée is a DEFA German crime film by Horst Reinecke from 1956.

action

Greater Berlin in the 1950s: The East Berlin criminal police have been dealing with cases of PVC smuggling across the open sector border into the West for four months . Checks in the GDR production did not reveal any irregularities. Behind the smuggling is a well-organized gang of smugglers whose head is the "wasp", unknown to most smugglers. Your meeting point is the "Treff Aimée" in the western sector. The gang produces the PVC powder from PVC waste and smuggles the white powder camouflaged as plaster into the West.

Ursula Schubert, clerk from the main chemistry administration and daughter of the Schubert detective, discovers that her company apparently exports more gypsum than is produced. She turns to her fiancé Dr. Rolf Markus, who works as a chemist in the Ministry of Foreign Trade. He explains to her that there have been additional deliveries of plaster of paris from abroad, but that the letter with these instructions accidentally did not go to the companies. Meanwhile, Kriminalrat Schubert and his colleague Wendt, who loves Ursula, continue to research the head of the PVC smuggler gang and the origin of the PVC powder. During his research he came across the company Münz & Co., which regularly brings plaster of paris to the western sector. He himself had checked a cargo and considered it legal. What he did not know, but now suspects from further research, is that PVC powder was smuggled instead of plaster. He pays the company a surprising visit, sees the head of Münz extremely nervous in front of him and, unnoticed, can take an invoice that proves the transport of waste to the Münz & Co. company. In turn, he finds PVC waste in the courtyard. Smuggler Erika from the western sector, who pretended to be Münz's secretary, believes that the fraud must now be exposed. She lures Schubert into a trap - in an organized traffic accident, the criminal investigator is so seriously injured that his life is in danger.

After the first witness was silenced, the gang now tries to eliminate confidante Ursula. Erika pretends to be a detective and lets her know that the perpetrator can be found in the Aimée club. Ursula secretly goes to the western sector to find the perpetrator in the café. Meanwhile, Dr. Markus, who is really the "Wasp", started dismantling Ursula. He reports her to the police because she has deceived not only him, but also Inspector Wendt in her character. Ursula, on the other hand, not only sees Dr. Markus in Treff Aimée, but also realizes that she is supposed to be held captive by the smugglers, so that her absence seems like an escape from the GDR . You succeed on the way back to the Eastern sector. When Dr. Markus returns to the police in the east. In order to finally dismantle Ursula as a refugee from the republic, Ursula appears, who has long since exposed him as a "wasp". Dr. Markus is arrested. Since the smugglers' gang is about to be discovered, all PVC powder stocks are distributed across eight trucks. Together they should break through the sector boundary. However, the police managed to use barricades to stop the trucks and arrest the drivers and those involved.

Ursula visits her father in the hospital, who is feeling better again. Inspector Wendt says goodbye and Ursula promises to write to him.

production

Meeting point Aimée was filmed in Berlin . The film had its world premiere on October 5, 1956 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin and in the DEFA film theater Kastanienallee.

The script is based on a true case. Director Horst Reinecke had previously worked as a dramaturge on three films. After his directorial debut with Treffpunkt Aimée , he only shot the film Reifender Sommer , which appeared in 1959, and then worked in the administration of DEFA.

criticism

Contemporary critics praised the film because it shows “people of flesh and blood, people we can meet today or tomorrow in our daily lives.” The viewer follows “interested, yes, excited [...] the untangling of the threads, which the author Gerhard Neumann has cleverly linked. "

For the film-dienst , Treffpunkt Aimée was “an exciting film, albeit with small staging flaws, trying to be realistic without showing any tendency”

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Funke in: Tomorrow , October 6, 1956.
  2. ↑ Rosemarie Rehahn in: Wochenpost , No. 40, 1956.
  3. ↑ Aimée meeting point. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 21, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used