And next year at Lake Balaton

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Movie
Original title And next year at Lake Balaton
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1980
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Herrmann Zschoche
script Inge Heym (book)
Manfred Wolter (dramaturgy)
production Rolf Martius
music Günther Fischer
camera Günter Jaeuthe
cut Monika Schindler
occupation

And next year at Lake Balaton is a DEFA feature film released in 1980 . It is based on the story I'm just not a Yogi by Joachim Walther .

action

Ines Moldenschütt and her friend Jonas want to go on vacation together on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria. But Ines' parents only agree to this on condition that they come along themselves. When the four of them take the train to the ČSSR on their outward journey, Ms. Moldenschütt surprises the young lovers with engagement rings. “Because of the people” the two are supposed to officially get engaged. That will be too much for Jonas, he gets off the train without further ado and wants to hitchhike on by himself. Ms. Moldenschütt, who wants to buy a newspaper at a station on the way, misses the onward journey and tries to hitchhike. It is picked up by the absent-minded Otto Schmiedel, also a GDR citizen, who takes it with him in his Trabant. The two involuntarily experience a strange situation when they mistakenly get into a Hungarian wedding party.
At the Czech border, Heinz Moldenschütt was taken off the train by border guards because they found his suitcase suspicious. Ines has to go on alone now.

Meanwhile, Jonas met the Dutch Shireen on the street, who wants to hitchhike to India. The two move on together. Jonas and Shireen are picked up by a truck. While she is getting into the driver's cab, he jumps onto the loading area, where he is completely surprised to find two work colleagues from his company. After the unsuccessful attempt to pierce a beer keg in the loading area, the three young men jump from the vehicle, so that Jonas and Shireen go their separate ways and Jonas and his friends move on.

Meanwhile arrived in Bulgaria, Jonas meets Shireen again and moves on with her. There is an erotic crackle between the two. Ines, who has also arrived, meets Jonas' colleagues and learns from them that Jonas cannot be far. Unfortunately, she finds him just as he is cuddling with Shireen naked in the tent. The resulting scuffle between the two girls has to be resolved by the police. Jonas goes with Shireen to the Greek border, where she moves on to India and has to say goodbye to him. In the meantime, out of frustration, Ines flirted with a young Bulgarian seducer, but declined his invitation to a quickie.

Finally, Ines' parents also find their way to the Black Sea coast and after all the complications there is a general reconciliation of the four people who started the journey together.

background

Inge Heym wrote the script based on motifs from the youth novel I'm not a yogi by Joachim Walther . The shooting took place in the summer of 1979 mainly in Bulgaria . With Kareen Schröter and René Rudolph, director Herrmann Zschoche again used young amateur actors who had made their debut two years earlier in his film Seven Freckles . The then acting student Odette Bereska was seen in her first film role. The premiere took place on June 26, 1980 in East Berlin , from July 4, 1980 the film was shown in GDR cinemas and later also under the title Jövöre a Balatonnál in Hungary . The television premiere was on December 5, 1981 on the television of the GDR , the first broadcast in West Germany took place on August 14, 1982 in the first program . After the first broadcast in 1982 on ARD, there were two more broadcasts on the first. On August 22, 1986 and June 29, 1990. This was also the last broadcast of the film in the unabridged 90-minute version for a long time. In summer 1996 the film was to be shown in the ARD holiday program. However, only a 75-minute slot was available for this. As a result, the entire prehistory in which Jonas and Ines plan their trip and meet with Jonas friends was cut out and the film cut down to 75 minutes. Any further broadcast in other ARD programs then only took place in this 75-minute version. The film has only been shown in full again since Icestorm's DVD release in January 2013. The film was also shown in full and unabridged in the broadcasts on MDR after January 2013.

Awards

  • Film award from the magazine Neues Leben for best DEFA film in 1980

Reviews

  • A film for the summer film days, a film for young people in this country. A praise? Absolutely, for “And next year at Balaton” (directed by Herrmann Zschoche), even if - first of all - the freshness and mobility of Zschoche's comparable previous work “Seven Freckles” were not achieved, at least: the narration is varied and entertaining [...]
  • This is an entertaining summer film, now and then a little philosophizing, with considerable viewing value, light episode dramaturgy, a harmonica blues composed by Günther Fischer that goes in the ear, some love and nudity and a lot of joie de vivre: the audience will thank you, as before with Seven Freckles - that's the same wavelength, probably one more DEFA box office hit.
  • [...] entertaining and briskly staged, but over-constructed and superficial.

literature

  • Herrmann Zschoche: Seven freckles and other memories. Das Neue Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-360-00984-3 , pp. 128-135.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Agde: Nice while on the go in: Filmspiegel, Ost-Berlin 15/1980, accessed July 4, 2010.
  2. ↑ Ralf Schenk: Light fare for hot days in: Film und Fernsehen, Ost-Berlin 9/1980, accessed July 4, 2010.
  3. ^ Lexicon of International Films . Editor: Klaus Brüne. Volume 8, T-V. Reinbek near Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-499-16322-5 , p. 3950.