Playful home

Movie
Original title	Playful home
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1971
length	85 minutes
Rod
Director	Claus Dobberke
script	Gert Billing , Wolfgang Ebeling
production	DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
music	Günter Hauk
camera	Hans-Jürgen Sasse
cut	Brigitte Krex
occupation
Piotr Pawlowski : Karl Waldner Wanda Koczeska : Erika Waldner Peter Borgelt : Herbert Bendlin Martin Trettau : Sepp Lukas Horst Preusker : Meissner Brigitte Beier : Maria Ritter Lutz Erdmann : Steube Werner Godemann : Police officer John Peet : Major Chester Hans Teuscher : Hauser Helmut Gauß : Young Lukas Kurt Kachlicki : Young Meißner Peter Pichler : Student Heinrich Schramm : Malewski Jan Spitzer : Young Karl Waldner Sonja Hörbing Lotte Loebinger

Playful home is a DDR - movie of 1971 . It tells of the lack of West German reappraisal of the National Socialist era . The novel of the same name by Franz Popp from 1968 served as a template .

action

The West German SPD functionary and editor-in-chief Karl Waldner meets the CDU politician and former Henlein leader Meißner at a meeting of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft . He had Karl's father murdered in the 1930s. With the help of the SPD, he tries in vain to initiate criminal prosecution of Meißner. The cross-party resistance is too great. In conversations with his childhood friend Sepp Lukas, Karl reconsiders his own history and that of social democracy.

background

The "Henlein-Jugend" was a group named after the National Socialist Reich Governor Konrad Henlein that fought for the Reichsgau Sudetenland , among other things .

Just two years after production, the film was taken out of distribution because it no longer politically fit into the landscape with the signing of the basic agreement as part of Willy Brandt's New Ostpolitik .

publication

The film had its cinema premiere on February 18, 1971 in Berlin's Kino International .

Reviews

In the magazine Neue Zeit . HU noticed that the script represents the weakness of the film:

“It affects the persuasiveness of his weighty political statements, which deserve the greatest interest. One knows (or at least can know) what is exemplified here. But the more emotional intensification that art could give does not materialize. Even the young director Claus Dobberke was unable to change anything with an objective, sober staging style. "

The Lexicon of International Films writes:

"A thematically interesting, but below average in terms of script and direction, the political objectives of which are formulated too amateurish and crude."

literature

• Franz Popp: A playful home. Verlag Neues Leben , 1968, DNB 457834137 .
• Lexicon of International Films. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-16357-8 , p. 6167.
• F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 664-665 .

Web links

• Playful home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Playful home at filmportal.de
• Playful home at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German-Czech News, p. 67 (pdf)
2. ↑ defa-stiftung.de
3. ↑ New Germany . February 19, 1971, p. 2.
4. ↑ New times. February 21, 1971, p. 4.
5. ↑ Playful home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 13, 2018 .