If you stick with me
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | If you stick with me |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 67 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans-Erich Korbschmitt |
| script |
Walter Baumert Hans-Erich Korbschmitt |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Jean Kurt Forest |
| camera | Günter Haubold |
| cut |
Lotti Mehnert Friedel Welsandt |
| occupation | |
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If you think to me is a German spy film of the DEFA of Hans-Erich Schmitt basket from the year 1962 .
action
The art student Liane tries to take her own life with sleeping pills in the house of her uncle Prof. Burghardt. Dr. A short time later, Hans Karhoff rings the doorbell until the professor wakes up and lets him into the villa. Hans finds Liane and immediately brings her to the clinic. While the doctors fight for their lives, Hans remembers how it came to be.
Liane lives in Dresden and studies at the art college there . Her parents perished in 1945, so that her uncle Professor Burghardt took her to live with him. Burghardt is a chemist and is nearing completion with his groundbreaking development PM 19, for which he lacks an ultracentrifuge that has been requested for a long time . On the Brühl Terrace , Liane meets Dr. Hans Karhoff know who, like you, grew up in Dresden. He soon proves to be a staunch admirer. They both fall in love, even if the trained chemist will soon have to return to Berlin, where he works. Here he can assert that he is transferred to the Burghardt Institute. Liane is initially pleased, but has concerns: Hans shouldn't do research with her uncle, but instead becomes the company's party secretary. Burghardt initially rejects Hans because he doesn't want to deal with politics and thinks that Hans is there to monitor his work. Soon, however, Hans was able to convince him of his efficiency and managed to organize the ultracentrifuge that had been needed for so long in a short time. Burghardt soon accepts his niece's relationship with Burghardt, in whom he has such great confidence that he even gives him an insight into his research papers on PM 19. Hans and Liane get engaged.
One day, Liane's sandpit friend Fred Lenka appears in Dresden. He is about to finish his dissertation and Liane is pleased to see him again. Fred applies as Burghardt's deputy and is initially accepted by management. Only afterwards does it become apparent that there was a gap in Fred's résumé from June to December 1953. Hans refuses to hire Fred until this gap has been clarified. Burghardt is outraged. Even when Fred confesses to having lived with a married woman during that time and Liane secretly passes this information on to Hans, he first wants to have Fred's information checked. Burghardt, however, wants to get Fred's position and Hans finally hands the case over to the Academy of Sciences. Therefore Burghardt refuses to continue working with Hans. Liane also separates from Hans, because she could not stand with Hans against her uncle. Hans has doubts.
The Academy of Sciences advises Burghardt not to hire Fred and Burghardt rejects Fred against his conviction. A little later, Fred claims in front of Liane that Hans made it through that he could no longer conduct research in any laboratory in the republic. His dissertation is so endangered. At Liane's request, he visits Hans personally, but then claims that Hans threw him out. Since Fred's dissertation allegedly builds on Burghardt's research, Fred finally gets Liane to lend her her uncle's research papers for a few hours, as he needs the measurement results for his own work. Burghardt is not supposed to come home until evening, but Fred has not returned by then. Liane slowly realizes that she gave the documents to a fraudster. Burghardt comes home and announces that the Academy has now approved Fred as his assistant. In addition, she had given the PM 19 project top priority, so it would receive the greatest possible support. The very next day, Burghardt wants to start the research with renewed vigor. Liane leaves the villa unnoticed and looks for Fred. He has cleared his room and is on the run. Now she calls Hans and urgently asks him to meet. Hans agrees, but arrives too late at the meeting point due to a management meeting. Liane - nervously at the end - has already left. She returns to the mansion, writes a suicide note and takes an overdose of sleeping pills. When Hans cannot find Liane at the meeting point, he rushes to Burghardt's villa, where he finds Liane and takes her to the hospital.
A little later, Burghardt also appears in the hospital. He has Liane's suicide note with him and is at a loss. A call from the border police clarified: Fred was caught trying to cross the border and captured. He confessed that he was supposed to steal Burghardt's research documents on behalf of a company from the west. In the face of the arrest, he destroyed all of the documents. Burghardt realizes that he wronged Hans. Liane, in turn, survived her suicide attempt.
production
If you stick to me , the working title The green folder was shot in Dresden in 1961. The film was made in Totalvision . Lydia Fiege created the costumes, and the film structures were made by Karl-Heinz Krehbiel . The film premiered on March 15, 1962 in the Leipzig Capitol and was shown in GDR cinemas the following day.
Along with Schlösser und Katen , the film is one of the few GDR films that dealt with the uprising of June 17, 1953 : On that day, Fred set a university building on fire and was thus open to blackmail by Western operations.
criticism
The criticism of the GDR called the film visually beautiful. The lack of the book (“the tendency to abstract, to construction and isolation”) is not eliminated by the film, but actually reinforced, so the characters appear “as if shielded from the surrounding reality by a glass bell”. Other critics praised them on the other hand, the style of a chamber play , in which the content is in the foreground without any gimmicky.
The film service found that the photography of the film was demanding, but the film was "dramaturgically and representatively weak" and "can never convincingly convey its propaganda concerns."
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 687-688 .
Web links
- If you think about me in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- If you stick with me at filmportal.de
- If you stick with me at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ See progress-film.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Manfred Haedler in: Tomorrow , March 22, 1962.
- ↑ Joachim Reichow in: Filmspiegel , No. 6 1962, p. 6.
- ↑ If you stick with me. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
