Goodbye winter
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Goodbye winter |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helke Misselwitz |
| script |
Gudrun Plenert Helke Misselwitz |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| music | Mario Peters |
| camera | Thomas Plenert |
| cut | Gudrun Plenert |
| occupation | |
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Winter adé (with spelling incorrectly spelled ade ) is a documentary by the DEFA studio for documentaries by Helke Misselwitz from 1988 .
action
At the age of 40, Helke Misselwitz went to Planitz near Zwickau to begin her documentary film Goodbye Winter at the railway barrier . This is where she was born in an ambulance in 1947 with the help of her grandmother, and this is the starting point for her film trip through the GDR . She wants to find out how others have lived so far and how they would like to live in the future, and she meets people, mostly women, at work and at home.
The 42-year-old advertising economist Hiltrud Kuhlmann from Berlin is the first interviewee on the train from Zwickau to Altenburg . In the compartment, in the Mitropa and on the platform, she talks about her two husbands, the two children and about work. In Altenburg, Helke Misselwitz meets a dance teacher couple who own the oldest dance school in the GDR. Here we watch a dance lesson and Lieselotte Schaller tells her experiences before, during and after the Second World War . In a briquette factory , Helke Misselwitz accompanies the 37-year-old worker Christine Schiele, whose job it is to constantly knock on the metal pipes and ducts with a large wooden hammer so that no coal dust can settle there. At home she tells about her life: Leaving school after the seventh grade, met a man and had a daughter. Then Christine filed for divorce, but withdrew it at her husband's request. They had another son and then the marriage ended in divorce. The daughter is mentally handicapped and Christine talks about the special problems and that she has not yet found a new partner as a result. But her son helps her a lot.
After a short visit to a doll clinic with Mrs. Helene Wolf in Delitzsch , Helke Misselwitz meets the two 17-year-old punks Kerstin and Anja under a railway bridge . Both of them are busy doing their hair all the time. Their main goal is to “hang around” somewhere, which is why they keep running away from home. After filming, both girls end up in a youth workshop . Back on the train, the film team meets a young family with three small children who tell how difficult life is to cope with financially.
In Berlin we get to know the newly furnished wedding room in the youth tourist hotel Egon Schultz in Berlin-Lichtenberg on the occasion of the city's 750th anniversary . This is now being inaugurated by the married couple Helga and Andreas Gerlach from Greiz, cook and dispatch worker, who have been married for seven days. This is followed by a ride on the underground to Berlin Alexanderplatz station . When asked how many female drivers are employed by the Berlin subway, the subway operator cannot give an answer. In a radio and TV shop in Friedrichstrasse , the broadcasts of the festive reception of the Central Committee of the SED on International Women's Day and the current camera run on several television sets . Further on the train, on the way north, four young girls are asked about their wishes for the future. In a drive-in cinema we see excerpts from the DEFA film The Legend of Paul and Paula .
The couple Margarete and Hermann Busse celebrate their diamond wedding in Groß Fredenwalde . It is a specialty that none of the many children and grandchildren is divorced. In a conversation with Margarete Busse alone, she said that she actually deserved a better man. It's not as good as they always do. At the Neubrandenburg train station , young men are bid farewell to serve in the National People's Army . You can see that saying goodbye is not easy for friends and family members. In the next scene we see several women who put filleted herrings in cans at the Sassnitz fish factory and weigh them. During the break, they tell the film team what they think of the men. Some would want to shape their lives differently if they had the opportunity to do so again. Erika Banhardt was the last of the women interviewed to speak. She is 55 years old, the director of a children's home for children from conspicuous families and has a son and a daughter. So far she had ruled out a marriage because she was so taken with her job. But now that she is old, she can imagine living with a man.
production
This black and white film was shot under the working title A Journey through the GDR , the dramaturgy was in the hands of Bernd Burkhardt . It was shown for the first time at the 11th National Festival for Documentary and Short Films of the GDR in October 1988 in Neubrandenburg .
The world premiere took place on February 2, 1989 at the Toni cinema in Berlin . The film was broadcast on GDR television on November 15, 1989, and on November 28, 1989 on ZDF .
criticism
In the Neue Zeit , Klaus M. Fiedler wrote that Helke Misselwitz dealt with the individual fates in a touching way and at the same time shows unvarnished pictures from everyday life in the GDR.
Volker Müller wrote in Neues Deutschland :
“With warmth and tenderness, the talented director tells of moments of happiness and difficult trials, of work, demands and dreams. Heike Misselwitz recorded a wide variety of encounters, from brief glances to the life story, and assembled them into a captivating travelogue through our everyday life, rich in witty associations and punchlines, in discoveries down to the finest detail. A film about women, but not just for them. A film on the subject of 'How should one live?' "
The lexicon of international film called the film, especially due to the impressive camera work, a sensitive documentary that also breaks political taboos.
Awards
- 1988: 31st International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week for Cinema and Television : Silver Dove
Web links
- Winter Comes Spring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Goodbye winter at filmportal.de
- Goodbye winter at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeit of October 20, 1988, p. 4
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 27, 1989, p. 8
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, November 15, 1988, p. 4
- ↑ Neue Zeit of December 6, 1988, p. 6
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 18, 1988, p. 6
- ↑ Goodbye winter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, December 2, 1988, p. 1