Our old days
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Our old days |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 48 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Petra Tschörtner |
| script | Petra Tschörtner Jochen Wisotzki |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| camera | Michael Lösche |
| cut | Angela Wendt |
Our Old Days is a documentary film by the DEFA studio for documentaries by Petra Tschörtner from 1990 .
action
The pensioner Schinkel talks after shopping on the way home with two known ladies and says that he in the next few days with his wife in a Feierabendheim will draw. His son is against it, but his son-in-law has already organized everything, but has not been in touch since then. The son alone helps the parents move into the home, which they certainly do not like to move into. He also takes part in the admission interview, which the home manager appreciates. Every resident has a file in which the most important personal details are entered. Only the question of the regulation of the estate can not be answered immediately by the former seamstress and the former driver of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe . Then they move into their shared room, turn on the television and spend the evening playing cards.
The next shot begins with normal everyday life in the after-work home. For breakfast, the residents stand in the very long hallway in front of their room doors to have breakfast served by the kitchen assistant driving past with a serving trolley. The reallocation of rooms is part of normal everyday life. A supervisor talks to Ms. Utes about her new roommate, who is to move in with her, because she lives in a twin room. The conversation is conducted as if Ms. Utes had an influence on the occupancy, however, after the acquaintance with Ms. Scholz, she has the impression that there may be problems because Ms. Scholz has a bad eye area. Other residents now tell in the film how, when and why they came to this home, and their previous visits are also discussed. Most of them do not like to be in the home, but do not see any other option because their children either cannot or will not care for them. A resident complains that there are not enough offers in the home. It even goes so far that one becomes dull there. Thank God she can still read well, which is an advantage over the others, who, in her opinion, are completely wasted here.
After a joint celebration of the GDR's 40th birthday with the residents and employees with music lectures and singing by kindergarten children, in which the home manager also acknowledged the great successes, the film team carried out further surveys. Even a slight criticism of the governance of the GDR, even from a member of the SED , cannot be ignored here. The next shot shows four women who share a room, although there are also single rooms, but that doesn't bother them because they are all healthy. But even married couples do not always live together, which is shown in a man who goes to his wife's room, who lives with another woman, three times a day to feed her. He likes to do this because he is convinced that this is exactly how she would act if it had hit him.
This time a nurse is involved in serving dinner, which is almost exactly the same as for breakfast, who helps the residents with the preparation. Here we also see a young man who is only among the old people because he is in a wheelchair.
Production and publication
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Jochen Wisotzki .
Our old days was filmed in black and white by the artistic working group kinobox under the working title Family Relationships and had its first verifiable performance on March 8, 1990 in the series Offers at the Babylon cinema in Berlin .
criticism
In the opinion of Margit Voss in the Berliner Zeitung , this work belongs to a series of films that are oppressive evidence of a long-lasting repression:
"There wounds are exposed that burned under the skin for a long time, conflicts are named that the people in the GDR were no longer willing to endure."
Web links
- Our old days at filmportal.de
- Our old days at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 6, 1990, p. 12
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 8, 1990, p. 4