How to feed a donkey

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Movie
Original title How to feed a donkey
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1974
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Roland Oehme
script Roland Oehme
Maurycy Janowski scenario
Dieter Scharfenberg scenario
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Günther Fischer
camera Emil Sirotek
cut Helga Emmrich
occupation

How to feed a donkey is a German road movie of the DEFA of Roland Oehme from the year 1974th

action

Truck driver Fred and his passenger Orje have an order that will take them from Dresden via the ČSSR to Bulgaria. In Prague her heavy truck collides with young Jana's egg truck. Orje swallows his little harmonica in the accident and has to be taken to a hospital. As a substitute driver, Fred is assigned to Jana through her secret commitment and Fred is not very enthusiastic. Both now take turns driving. Fred mainly uses longer breaks to pay a visit to his numerous love affairs in various cities, about which he keeps a book in a small red notebook. Jana is tough. When Fred lets her drive up a difficult mountain pass, however, she collapses at some point: she is only a woman, has never driven a heavy truck before and he only let her take the shortcut because he knew she would never make it. In the end, they both reach their destination in Bulgaria, where they are already expected by the workers of a chemical plant. They give a party in their honor in the evening. In the traditional kiss dance, Jana kisses Fred, who fails miserably at night when she asks him to open her dress. The next morning Jana receives a little donkey from the workers and Jana, Donkey and Fred start the journey back.

Fred has changed. He visits a befriended family, of whom Jana only gets to see the woman and who only feels confirmed in her rejection of Fred. But when Fred gives her flowers a little later, the two get closer for the first time. You want to spend the night in a hotel room, which sinks into chaos after a pipe burst. In the end, both find themselves at a police station and the night ends differently than planned. During a second stop in Debrecen , Jana thinks that Fred is going to visit a lover again, but he only stops at a friend whom Jana knows from Prague. When Jana sees this, she too comes out of the truck's bunk and she and Fred spend a night together. The rest of the journey to Prague goes without any problems. Fred throws away his red book and asks Jana to always be his passenger in the future, because Orje would rather drive inland routes anyway. When Fred is brought in his red booklet by the police, he tears it in half and he and Jana soon throw it off a bridge in small snippets.

production

The film, which was shot on location, involved the Barrandov film studios in Prague, the Ma film studio in Budapest, the Buftea film studio in Bucharest and the Sofia Cinema Center. How to feed a donkey had its premiere on June 27, 1974 on the Schwerin open-air theater .

Various bands appear in the film, with the vocal parts taking place independently of the plot and almost having the character of a music video. The criticism complained, among other things, that the "appearances of individual rock bands from Eastern European countries [...] were helplessly built into the plot". You can hear and see the Klaus Renft Combo ( But I can't understand it ), Viktor Sodoma and Shut up, Phönix, Impuls 73 and the group Illés. Günther Fischer wrote the title song ; It is sung by Manfred Krug.

criticism

The contemporary criticism found that the film was "a comical, often smacky story", the plot of which was "pushed forward again and again by all sorts of mishaps [...]". However, the fun is "not sought in the comic polemics, nor does the situation comedy increase," criticized the New Germany .

The film service called How do you feed a donkey a "love story in a truck driver milieu, mostly entertaining and cheerful, but superficial in conflict organization and direction."

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b How to feed a donkey in the lexicon of international filmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  2. ^ Sigrid Schmitt in: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 20, 1976.
  3. ^ Rolf Richter: Contemplative, cheerful cinema . In: Neues Deutschland , June 29, 1974.