For example Josef (film)

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Movie
Original title For example Josef
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1974
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erwin Stranka
script Günter Karl
Erwin Stranka
production DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
music Uve Schikora
camera Peter Brand
cut Margrit Brusendorff
occupation

For example Josef is a German film adaptation of DEFA by Erwin Stranka from 1974 . It is based on the novel of the same name by Herbert Otto .

action

When work in the Rostock shipyard comes to a standstill due to stagnant deliveries of material, the waiting brigade goes to look for the stuck truck. You try in vain to get the car out of the mud. After all, it is the passing Josef who daringly brings the car back onto the street. Brigadier Bruno Hagedorn would like to give Josef a chance in his brigade, especially since workers are constantly being withdrawn from him and sent to training courses. However, after three weeks of work in the shipyard, Josef actually wanted to quit the job and leave, as he has always done. The acquaintance with the young Ute initially changes him.

Josef was born in 1944. The exact date is unknown because he was found in his dead mother's arms. Josef grew up in a monastery and after completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, he went to the Foreign Legion in the Middle East. He took part in the Algerian War as a mercenary . The horrors on site, including the gruesome death of his best friend, but also the daring escape via Poland to the GDR, shaped Josef. His behavior is therefore rarely rational. If he saved himself from fire by jumping through a window pane during the Algerian war, jumping through panes in Rostock also seemed adequate as an outlet against anger and injustice. When he was denied entry to the penguin bar due to overcrowding, he jumped through the window. He must replace her and face interrogation in a conflict commission. His colleague Alois also makes it clear to him that the pane is part of public property and that the destruction concerns everyone.

Joseph rebels against ordinances and constraints. When he wants to meet Ute, he leaves the shipyard early, although he is not allowed to. If he wants to weld at work, he does it even though he has no relevant training. One day Ute is no longer there. She went to Berlin to study and Josef angrily leaps through another window pane. He is now being sentenced to three years' imprisonment and suspended for one year.

He meets Julia, who is divorced from her husband, but has to regularly see their daughter. The two men clash and Julia finally asks Josef to leave. There is too much for Josef at work. On a museum trip to Berlin, Bruno reveals to him that he is going to send him on a welding course. Josef refuses and Bruno lets him get off in the middle of the route. Finally, Josef sees Ute with her new boyfriend and packs his things. He wants to leave Rostock, but suddenly Julia is in his door. She has finally separated from her ex-husband and confesses to Josef that his existence helped her in her decision. Both become a couple and Josef wants to improve. Through the mediation of his colleague Erna, he is accepted back into the brigade. He even signs up for the welding course, but shortly before the first lesson begins, he becomes afraid of his own persistence. He flees to the harbor, where Bruno confronts him. Josef hits him several times, but Bruno does not shrink from him. In the end, Josef becomes part of the brigade and sees himself again in a report about the brigade work on television.

production

For example, Josef was filmed at the Warnow shipyard in Warnemünde and the Neptun shipyard in Rostock from 1973 onwards . The shooting locations were also the Warnemünde tea pot and the Baltic Sea beach not far from the Hotel Neptun . For example Josef was shown as early as June 1974 as part of the GDR Film Week in Warsaw. The film had its official premiere on September 20, 1974 in the Cottbus Chamber Light Theater as the opening film of the 2nd days of socialist film and was shown in GDR cinemas on October 4, 1974. In the following year he was one of the seven DEFA films that were made as part of the III. Information Colloquium in Moscow. On May 18, 1976, For example Josef experienced its television premiere on DFF 1 in the GDR.

The music was composed by Uve Schikora and played by the DEFA symphony orchestra and the Uve Schikora combo. The film constructions were made by Georg Wratsch , while the costumes were made by Barbara Braumann . The film's spokesman is Gerry Wolff .

criticism

The GDR's contemporary critics praised the film because it “appraises the new, socialist relationships between people in an appealing way” and “makes conflicts believable and connected to life”. Other critics, however, accused the film of the "cinema artistry" of the sitter.

For the film-dienst , for example, Josef was a "action-packed film, thematically interesting and good performance, which offers appealing entertainment, although it ultimately tends towards purposeful pseudo-solutions."

Awards

The film was awarded the title “valuable” in the GDR. The film collective of For Example Josef also received the FDGB Art Prize on June 12, 1975 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See defa.de
  2. ↑ See defa.de
  3. ↑ Manfred Beckmann: Jump into a new world . In: Filmspiegel , No. 22, 1974, p. 8.
  4. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 712 .
  5. ↑ For example Josef. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
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  7. ↑ Our culture. Timeline 1945–1987 . Dietz, Berlin 1989, p. 236.