Detours to happiness
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Detours to happiness |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 64 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eberhard Schäfer |
| script | Goetz Jaeger (scenario) Klaus Tudyka (dramaturgy) |
| production |
DEFA on behalf of the DFF |
| music | Monika Milbradt |
| camera | Lothar Noske |
| cut | Beate Winker |
| occupation | |
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Detours in Happiness is a TV drama produced by the DEFA studio for feature films ( Potsdam-Babelsberg ) for GDR television by film director Eberhard Schäfer from 1977.
action
Fred Sturm, Alfons Ziesecke's best friend, has gone on summer vacation with his son Harald. Alfons Ziesecke is supposed to take care of the house of the storm during the vacation time. Fred and Harald secretly return from vacation. Neither their boyfriend nor each other have revealed anything about this. Independently of each other, both had the brilliant idea of meeting their new friends undisturbed and spending the next fortnight together. And so neither Fred nor his son Harald has any idea that they are not all with their wives. At first, however, the two of them are surprised that the bouquet of flowers on the table that Fred had given his Inge to greet him always seems to change. In the evening, the two women first meet and now suspect that their chosen one has invited a second bride. Fred and Harald cannot dispel this misunderstanding when they too suddenly face each other. Harald doesn't dare to admit to his father that Petra is his girlfriend and introduces her to him as a fellow student who wants to give him tutoring in physics. Alfons Ziesecke tries to intervene in what is happening and to maintain secrecy. He confuses Fred's girlfriend with the randomly arriving Elvira Sommerlatte, whom Fred has just hired as a competent tutor for his son. Alfons understands the attractive teacher's physical terms as erotic allusions and is instantly in love with this woman, so he has to assume that he is getting in the way of his friend. Inge and Petra have now met alone and it has become clear to them that there are two gentlemen in the house and that they are by no means competitors. At this moment Alfons snows in again, who is fighting for his Inge - who is actually called Elvira. While Inge and Petra notice very quickly that Alfons is wrong, they decide to take advantage of his ignorance and make Fred jealous. Since Alfons allows himself to be manipulated by the two women in this way, it runs counter to the interests of his friend Fred. In an argument, the three leave the room and Fred remains angry. When Harald appears, father and son finally speak up and find out that they both came back to the apartment for the same reason and did not even go on vacation. Determined to fight for his love, Fred hurries after Inge. In the meantime Elvira comes back and meets Alfons full of joy, who can now present his new conquest to Fred. After further small misunderstandings everything clears up in the end and the men finally recognize who belongs to whom.
production
The film had its television premiere on August 14, 1977 on DFF 1 , but was produced in 1976 for GDR television in 1976. In September 2012 the film was released on DVD by Icestorm as part of the DDR TV Archive series .
criticism
In 1977 the critic registered in the GDR magazine Eulenspiegel "Goetz Jaeger's detours into happiness and on this occasion again Rolf Herricht's talent, which cannot be valued highly enough, to raise even the simplest templates to a respectable level."
Web links
- Detours to happiness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Detours to happiness at Spondo (formerly Icestorm )
- Detours into happiness at fernsehenderddr.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Start dates for detours to happiness . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved August 31, 2013 .
- ^ GDR TV archive on filmkenner.com
- ^ Eulenspiegel, Volume 24, Berliner Verlag., 1977, p. 6 Film criticism at books.google.de retrieved