Vera Romeyke is not wearable
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Vera Romeyke is not wearable |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Willutzki |
| script |
Renke Korn , Max Willutzki |
| production | Basic film production Berlin |
| music | Wilhelm Dieter Siebert |
| camera | Dietrich Lohmann |
| cut | Inga Sauer |
| occupation | |
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Vera Romeyke ist not wearable is a 1975 German feature film by Max Willutzki with Rita Engelmann in the title role.
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Vera Romeyke is a woman in her early thirties and works as an idealistic and committed teacher in the Ruhr area . She is a party member of the SPD and belongs to the education and science union . She tries to get her class excited about the subject matter with new forms of teaching and thereby deviates from the usual, prescribed teaching methods. In role-playing games, your students should deal with their lives and that of their parents and learn to question social conventions. One day, Romeyke gets into a massive conflict with the school authorities and the conservative guardians of her students because she wants to familiarize the students with the concrete mechanisms of the world of work.
She is assumed to be politically left-wing, even socialist “indoctrination”, and the parents turn to the school authorities about their concerns. Now Romeyke gets caught in the mill of the school officials apparatus of her superiors. With her open-minded and, in her time, “revolutionary” attitude, she divides teachers and students into two irreconcilable camps. After an intensive interrogation regarding her civic sentiments, whether this was still based on the Basic Law and the Federal Republic, the by no means radical, but only empathic teacher, is transferred to another city, because the final report says: “Vera Romeyke is not sustainable ”.
Production notes
Vera Romeyke Is Not Wearable premiered on April 22, 1976. Since the film dealt critically with the reality of the Federal Republic of Germany (keyword “ radical decree ”), it was also approved in the GDR and premiered there on November 19, 1976. On May 26, 1977 Vera Romeyke is not portable ran on GDR television.
Reviews
“So finally there is a German film about occupational bans and radical decrees, unfortunately not one that can be attested to as good will […] Unfortunately, Willutzki, made famous by the 'Long Jammer' about a tenant initiative in the Märkisches Viertel, stylized his protagonist to an all-too-noble saint Johanna of the school desks, who hurls pathetic truisms about the Basic Law at her inquisitors. The agonizing wooden staging, which helplessly speculates on catchy cinema effects and ingratiates the viewer with shamelessly naive identification models, degrades the characters all to sterile banners and editorials, never allowing them to develop. Where only documentary precision would have been convincing, Willutzki deals with melodramatic clichés, does not get involved with people and their problems, but delivers planned left kitsch. "
“Less logically than emotionally arguing film that turns against the abuse of power by the state against the background of the discussion about the 'radical decree' (from 1972) in the Federal Republic of Germany. The description of the mechanisms of repression flows into the situation pictures, but also the attempt to justify and objectively discuss, which makes the film a fundamentally discussion-worthy 'educational film' on the problem of professional bans. In retrospect, it is also one of the few German 'feature film documents' on a piece of controversial politics. "
“Only the 'Berliner Schule' (Ziewer with 'Der Aufrechte Gang', Lüdcke / Krati with 'Tannerhütte', Willutzki with 'Vera Romeyke ist not wearable') consistently tries to make a socially critical film in the tradition of Slatan Dudow ('Kuhle Wampe ') and Phil Jutzi (' Mother Krausen's journey into happiness'). "
Web links
- Vera Romeyke is not sustainable in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Vera Romeyke is not acceptable at filmportal.de