We two
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | We two |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Schamoni |
| script | Ulrich Schamoni |
| production | Terra cinematography |
| music | Xhol caravan |
| camera | Michael Ballhaus |
| cut | Heidi Genée |
| occupation | |
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Wir - Zwei is a 1969 German feature film by Ulrich Schamoni with Sabine Sinjen and Christoph Bantzer in the leading roles.
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After ten years, Hella Mayer and her childhood friend Andreas meet again on the street in Berlin. Both know each other from common dance lessons. He is a studied, handsome natural scientist, a bit boring and meanwhile become staid, she is married to the businessman Willy Meyer. The couple have a daughter, Ulrike. The old feelings quickly break up again. Andreas confesses to Hella frankly: "I still love you", to which Hella replies succinctly: "What should I do there?" Hella and Andreas then try to rediscover each other, to get on the track of old feelings, to fathom the past commonality of the "we two" anew. For this they need time, time together.
Andreas and Hella use Willy's business trip to find each other on long walks in the Grunewald and the Wannsee, at the fairground and late in the evening in the "New Eden Saloon". In a few hours of the time they have, both want to make up for what has been missed in the past. Finally the two end up in bed in their enthusiastic coming to terms with the past. But when Andreas brings Hella home and asks: "Shall we meet again?" she waves it away. Despite all the sentimental and physical closeness, it became clear to both of them that time cannot be turned back, that they parted ways ten years ago and that there are good reasons for leaving the situation at hand. The attempt to make the past into the present, at least temporarily, ultimately only proved that the old togetherness has outlived itself.
Production notes
Wir - Zwei was created for 700,000 DM production costs between September 10 and October 30, 1969 in Berlin and was premiered on April 30, 1970. The TV first broadcast took place on October 27, 1978 on ZDF .
Peter Genée was in charge of production.
In 1970 the film received the rating “valuable” from the film evaluation office, and towards the end of the same year it received a script award of 200,000 DM.
Reviews
“If you have nothing better in mind:“ We - two ”, by Ulrich Schamoni. Like people who think they know what life is like, think that life is. Everything comes as it has to. The film denies discoveries, surprises and inventions with a consistency that almost deserves admiration. Ulrich Schamoni's fourth film is definitely his best (if that says something) because he doesn't pretend to be himself, doesn't point with his fingers at others. A film in which content and form are one: the dead image of a dead world. "
“His Berlin film, staged in authentic Berlin locations with authentic Berliners like Rolf Eden, Schröder-Sonnenstern and many others who" play themselves ", can be consumed as effortlessly as" Jasmin ". "The quality of the average German film today is so poor," says Schamoni, "that a film that is made halfway decently has to be noticed." What a standard! "
“Only through the accurately chosen cast Sabine Sinjen, Christoph Bantzer, Corny Collins and Ulrich Schamoni (in the role of the betrayed husband) does the director manage to take the monotony out of this melancholy. With all the love, however - it is difficult to connect this sweet jasmine romance and its bitter end with reality. "
The following can be read in Films 1965–70: "After an initial short break, well-tended boredom spreads."
In the lexicon of international films it says: "The melodrama seems like a late reminiscence of the vigor and intimacy of the French Nouvelle Vague , but soon silts up in fashionable chic."
Individual evidence
- ^ Films 1965/70. Handbook VIII of the Catholic film criticism. Volume 1. Cologne 1971, p. 350
- ↑ We - two. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2015 .
Web links
- We - two in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- We - two at filmportal.de