Unusual decision
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Unusual decision |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 69 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ursula Bonhoff |
| production | Television of the GDR |
| camera |
Harry Valek Josef Kubitza Alfred Kirchner |
| cut | Wolfgang Meyer |
| occupation | |
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An unusual decision is a documentary drama for television in the GDR by Ursula Bonhoff, created in 1980 based on tape recordings and a film interview by Anne Dessau from 1962 and 1978.
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After the Second World War , Gudrun left her broken home at the age of 13 to seek refuge with her uncle in the Rhineland . So that she can earn a living, his sister arranges for her a position in the kitchen of the religious order of the poor servants of Jesus Christ . With the money she earns there, she can finance her training at a nursing school. During this time, Gudrun , who was a Protestant believer, converted to Catholicism , where she felt at home and secure. She became a novice in 1955 , when she was dressed, she was given the name Sister Olafa and made her vows . Then Sister Olafa learns from a patient on her ward who knows her real name that her sister Hanna, who she can no longer remember, has been looking for her for eight years via the German Red Cross tracing service.
(The information mentioned so far in the text is told by Gudrun W. himself, in words and partly also in pictures. The following scenes are filmed with actors based on their stories and partly reinforced by personal statements.)
In 1962, Sister Olafa applied for a first trip to see her sister Hanna in the GDR and before she left, the superior informed her of the dangers outside of the church facilities. At the train station in Guben she is expected by Hanna, her husband Klaus and the children Lenchen and Peter. On the way to the apartment, she met the single father Mr. Fröhlich in the stairwell with his one year old daughter Tina, who asks Hanna to take care of the child, as he suddenly had to go to work. In the apartment, Sister Olafa can move into the nursery, and after a short break we can eat together. Since Sister Olafa cannot eat because of the excitement, she goes back to her room, where she collapses. When Mr. Fröhlich comes back, she lays her on the bed and calls an ambulance. In the hospital, the doctor found total exhaustion, and because of the low weight of 41 kilograms, he insists on inpatient care. Over the next few days, Olafa receives regular visits from her family and the children are slowly getting used to her. Mr. Fröhlich also visits her with Tina and says that his wife has left them both. Sister Olafa remembers how her mother did it and how difficult it was for her father. Since the sisters had little time to themselves, Hanna applied for an extension of the residence permit. Olafa describes the time in the hospital to the doctor as a repetition of the postulate , as she begins to rethink the future course of her life. That is why she also seeks a conversation with a pastor, to whom she reports of her emotional distress, that she wants a lot that is not allowed to her as a religious sister. She describes the biggest problem as never being allowed to have children of her own. The pastor sympathizes with her and advises her to reconsider everything after returning to her mother house.
When she is released from the hospital, Sister Olafa is picked up by her family and Mr. Fröhlich in a charcuterie , and together they drive to a lake to have a barbecue . While Olafa is busy with Tina, Herbert Fröhlich confesses to Hanna that he likes Olafa and that she too would like to keep her sister around. Olaf's reflections are now so advanced that she writes a letter to the Pope in which she asks for the release of her holy vow. A little later, Herbert Fröhlich asks her not to return to her order and to marry him. When he hears that she has already written to the Pope to return to the laity , it makes him very happy. The answer from Rome takes much too long for Olafa, and she takes off her religious clothes without dispensation , which leads to her expulsion from the Catholic Church. Now her name is Gudrun again, she works in the hospital as a laboratory nurse and marries Herbert Fröhlich. She still believes in God but does not regret the step.
Production and publication
Aenne Keller was responsible for the dramaturgy .
The first broadcast of the film created on ORWO-Color took place on July 8, 1980 in the first program of the television of the GDR .
criticism
"The work presented here testifies to what achievements an artistic partnership lasting over years, committed to a certain thematic claim, is capable."
Web links
- Unusual decision in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Unusual decision at filmportal.de
- Unusual decision in the online dictionary of television in the GDR
Individual evidence
- ^ Henryk Goldberg in Neues Deutschland on July 10, 1980; P. 4.