We're getting a divorce

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Movie
Original title We're getting a divorce
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1968
length 91 minutes
Rod
Director Ingrid Reschke
script Kurt Belicke
Ingrid Reschke
Rudi Strahl (scenario)
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Wolfram Heicking
camera Helmut Grewald
cut Helga Gentz
occupation

We let us divorce is a cheerful German everyday film by DEFA by Ingrid Reschke from 1968 based on a story by Rudi Strahl .

action

Monika and Johannes Koch live with their ten-year-old son Manfred, also known as Manni, on Berlin's Friedrichsgracht, right in the center of the city. Both have very different views on the upbringing of their son and arguments are becoming more and more common in everyday dealings with one another. One evening, when this argument degenerated again, Johannes left the apartment and first moved in with his father, who is single and works on construction in downtown Berlin. Monika, who works as a typesetter in a printing company, and her husband, who plays as a pianist in the orchestra of a Berlin theater, decide to split up and agree that each of them should have the boy for four weeks. In this way they also want to find out who is the better educator.

Since Johannes now lives with his father, who doesn't have a piano and doesn't want one in his apartment, he would like to practice with an older, nice piano teacher nearby. The elderly lady turns out to be a pretty young daughter, Maria, who has taken on representation for her mother. Johannes is so confused that he hides his request and introduces himself as a piano student. So a little love develops over time. But Monika also soon meets a nice young man. During one of Manni's outings with his mother, Manni takes them with him in his convertible car. You can also visit the new building of the Berlin television tower, where the convertible driver Mr. Körner is busy. Further excursions follow and Monika and Körner also get closer.

Manni naturally tries to get the most out of this situation and sets mother and father apart. Above all else, he is very inventive when it comes to pocket money. When he has saved enough of it, he uses spare parts to assemble a bicycle, which his father doesn't like at all when he catches him with it. In other respects, too, Manni is getting over the top more and more often. So he forges a certificate of exemption so that his friend Mücke no longer has to go to the after-school care center. Once he and Mücke even get caught smoking by his grandpa in the basement. His teacher also complains about the poor performance of his parents.

Monika and Johannes have to recognize that their experiment has failed and come to the realization that only common, sensible action can lead to a happy family life. Finally, Körner rings Marie's doorbell and asks if she can give him piano lessons.

production

We are getting divorced was shot by the artistic working group "Johannisthal" as a black and white film under the working title Ein Rüpel unequaleben in Totalvision . The filming locations in Berlin included the construction sites on the television tower and Alexanderplatz , the Märchenbrunnen in Volkspark Friedrichshain , the Friedrichsgracht , the street Unter den Linden , the Jannowitz Bridge and the Rheinsberg Castle .

There were problems with the casting of roles: For the original casting of the couple, the real couple Armin Mueller-Stahl and Monika Gabriel were intended. However, filming had to be stopped after eleven days due to a protracted knee injury from Mueller Stahl. His role was taken over by Dieter Wien, whereby Reiner Schöne came to the role of Körner.

The film had a preview on March 28, 1968 on the occasion of the reopening of the Theater des Friedens in Burg (near Magdeburg) and a double premiere on April 4, 1968 at 8 p.m. in the Berlin Kino International and at 8.30 p.m. in the Colosseum cinema, also in Berlin .

criticism

Günter Sobe wrote in the Berliner Zeitung that the strip is cheerful and occasionally it is. But it is also superficial and too smooth on this surface.

EM meant in Neues Deutschland that the scriptwriters did not concentrate on the exhaustion of the issue of raising children. Instead, they expanded the matter into one of the traditional marriage stories. This reinforced the impression of the superficial. Despite these shortcomings in the film, mainly in the script, the acting was appealing.

The lexicon of international films called the film a demanding and sensitively staged comedy.

literature

  • We're getting a divorce In: F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 294 to 295.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 31, 1968, p. 14
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 17, 1968, p. 6
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 28, 1968, p. 6
  4. ↑ We're getting a divorce. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used