Excuse me, do you watch soccer?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Excuse me, do you watch soccer? |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gunther Scholz |
| script | Gunther Scholz, Günter Haubold |
| production | DEFA |
| music |
Helmut Frommhold , Rainer Neumann |
| camera | Günter Haubold |
| cut | Bärbel Bauersfeld |
| occupation | |
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Excuse me, do you watch soccer? is a German episode film from DEFA from 1983. The five episodes are based on templates by Carlos Cerda ( Transmission indirecta ), Edgar Külow ( Irma and Herta ), Helga Schubert ( reviewing the candidate ), Renate Holland-Moritz ( tolerance threshold ) and Katrin Long ( home game ). The film premiered on April 7, 1983 in the Berlin cosmos .
action
On July 19, 1982, the residents of five apartments in a tenement house in Berlin were preparing for the television broadcast of the World Cup final in Madrid between Italy and Germany. During the entire game, the camera observes what is happening in the house and thus captures many small and large problems of the current events.
During the broadcast, a football fanatic receives a visit from a lady whom he wrote in response to a marriage advertisement. A woman accidentally locks herself out of the apartment and ends up with the neighbor because her husband, immersed in the game, does not hear the doorbell. A Chilean living in exile experiences the game knowing that his father is watching it at home at the same time. A divorced couple still living in the same apartment is forced to watch the broadcast together and thus grow closer again. In memory of her football-mad husband, a widow invites a friend to watch the game together.
Reviews
- ... because Gunter Scholz ignores the seams between the different stylistic devices and genre peculiarities, basic tones and moods without hesitation ( film and television 10/1983)
- … A cinematic hermaphrodite who, despite borrowing from the television competition, has the same weaknesses in fitness as GDR football (RIAS Berlin, April 8, 1983)
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 .