Because I love you ... (1970)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Because I love you … |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Helmut Brandis Hans Kratzert |
| script | Helmut Brandis |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Wilhelm Neef |
| camera | Wolfgang Braumann |
| cut | Ursula Zweig |
| occupation | |
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Because I love you ... is a DEFA feature film from 1970 by the screenwriter Helmut Brandis , who directed his only feature film here. The young director Hans Kratzert was placed at his side .
action
The GDR in the late Ulbricht era: As part of a research contract, the experienced veterinarian Dr. Gerd Thiessen sent to a state-owned estate. Eva Thiessen, his wife, has already given up her job to be able to accompany her husband. Thiessen brings along a lot of ideas and suggestions for improvement, which, however, do not meet with approval from everyone. Only the veterinarian Dr. Sabine Ladenbach is impressed by his ideas and quickly takes his side. The young woman is well versed and confidently defends her beliefs.
Soon an intimate relationship develops from the official cooperation between the two. This change does not go unnoticed by Gerd's wife Eva, and she begins to fight for her husband in her own way. She lets herself completely into her new living and working environment and is also involved in her husband's areas of responsibility in order to be close to him as often as possible. This also leaves a powerful impression on Gerd Thiessen. He rediscovers his wife and now knows that only she can be the woman of his life. In addition - it is a DEFA production - the socialist message is given that the individual is nothing and the collective is everything.
Production and publication
Because I love you ... was created under the working title Tomorrow is already today and was premiered on September 9, 1970 in Neubrandenburg . This film, shot on ORWO color, had its celebratory premiere when it was released on September 18, 1970 at the East Berlin Kino International . The film was broadcast on German television for the first time on January 29, 1972 in the second program.
Reviews
“The discussion about the organization of work in the stables is extremely instructive - and sometimes with wit. However, one gets into the realm of popular science film. Convincing shots of the cattle drive, which reveal a sense of realistic design ... contrast with shots of the young couple in love playing hashmich between trees according to the old cliché. "
“The subject of the sparse plot should be extremely interesting; that would be material for a keen-eyed documentarist. There is a strikingly boring love triangle here that ends before it has really started ... "
In the lexicon of international film it says: "Current references in a film with outdated clichés and of considerable boredom."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 19, 1970, p. 1
- ↑ Because I love you ... In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2019 .
Web links
- Because I love you ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Because I love you ... at filmportal.de
- Because I love you ... at the DEFA Foundation