Foreplay (1987)

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Movie
Original title foreplay
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1987
length 92 minutes
Rod
Director Peter Kahane
script Thomas Knauf
production DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
music Tamás Kahane
camera Andreas Köfer
cut Use Peters
occupation

Vorspiel is a DEFA German feature film directed by Peter Kahane in 1987 .

action

A group of young people is standing in front of a cinema in a small town and scares drivers who drive through a pothole with a popping noise, so that they think they have blown a tire. One of these drivers is Dr. Long single parent, divorced for seven years, with his daughter Corinna. It has drawn him back to his old home, where he takes over the Natural History Museum as the new director. On this occasion, the apprentice decorator Tom sees the girl and discovers in her the love he has always dreamed of.

Corinna, who is still attached to her mother, does not like the fact that her father meets more and more often with his (not so old) childhood sweetheart, who now works as a councilor in the town hall. And she can bear it even less when her father dictates what profession she should take up - a biologist, of course. Corinna thinks about running away at eighteen. To Berlin, of course. Preferably as a drama student, which is why she is the first to join the theater group founded by Tom and Floh, Tom's best friend since they were together in the sandpit. Tom hoped to get even closer to Corinna and study with her. The girl Flea pursues this with a bleeding heart because she is in love with Tom, but she helps her boyfriend at a turning point in his life. But first of all, Tom tears out all his legs for the beloved one. He studies almost everything about Japanese ceramics in the library, lets his father invite him to a "technical discussion" over Asian food at home, in which the beloved does not take part, of all things, sends Flea to Corinna to put him in a good mood, crumbles Kleist text. He even fights for a hot night of love with Corinna while her father sleeps with his new (old) girlfriend. But in the end nothing helps: He has to realize that Corinna is in love with his friend Major - and has now even given up acting to become a biologist.

Now Tom also wants to throw everything away, but he did the math without a flea. She accompanied him to Berlin and, after a deliberately unsuccessful “Hamlet” solo, even got him to play Kleist's famous - and immediately touching - “Käthchen” dialogue by her side. And suddenly it falls like scales from his eyes ...

production

Vorspiel was filmed by the artistic work group “Roter Kreis” on ORWO color and had its premiere on November 5, 1987 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . Large parts of the film were shot in Schönebeck on the Elbe, others in Rathenow (cinema activist) and near Saarmund (Nuthe-Wehr). Excerpts from the DEFA films Berlin - corner Schönhauser ... and Meine Frau macht Musik were inserted into the plot . The composer and singer Tamás Kahane is the then 19-year-old son of the director. Several of the young people are amateur actors.

Reviews

Ralf Schenk found in the Berliner Zeitung : Tom's efforts, which lead to a bitter loss, are, as Corinna's father rightly remarks, only the overture to all the struggles that one has to fight for a lifetime and for which one has commitment, strength and moral courage needs. That is the real theme of the film. Horst Knietzsch said in New Germany that Peter Kahane tells of the confusions of love, which have a realistic meaning for the everyday life of young people in our country. Obviously, this is what makes the film so successful with the audience. Heinz Kersten wrote in Der Tagesspiegel on December 13, 1987, that Kahane often tells his story only in pictures and sounds, without language, gently and sensually. He leaves a lot in hints, uses precisely intelligent ironic poses and makes you laugh and cry.

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Individual evidence

  1. Ralf Schenk in the Berliner Zeitung of November 12, 1987
  2. Horst Knietzsch in New Germany November 17, 1987
  3. Heinz Kersten in Der Tagesspiegel of December 13, 1987