Roman einer jungen ehe (Story of a Young Couple) & Frauenschicksale (Destinies of Women)
Contributor(s): Kurt Maetzig
| Slatan Dudow.
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Visual materialSeries: . Publisher: Germany : filmmuseum München , 1952Description: 2 DVDs.Genre/Form: drama| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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BardBerlinLibrary Circulation Office | MAE ROM 1952 (Browse shelf) | Available |
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includes two short films: Kampfgruppe der Unmenchlichkeit (1956, 21 min on DVD 1 and Tageskurs 1:4 (1957, 12 min on DVD 2)
Yvonne Merin, Hans-Peter Thielen, Willy A. Kleinau, Sonja Sutter, Lotte Loebinger, Anneliese Book
Story of a Young Couple:
A young married couple-both actors-work in Cold War Berlin before the Wall is built. Agnes is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen, her husband, works at the Westend Theater in West Berlin. They hold diametrically opposed views on politics, art and the responsibility of the individual to society. As they have vehement arguments, their marriage is in danger of breaking up. This film portrays numerous figures of contemporary German cultural and political life-including Veit Harlan, director of the notorious Nazi propaganda film Jud Süss, and Boleslaw Barlog, a famous West Berlin theater director. Also memorable in this film is documentary footage of the construction of Stalin Allee, the biggest boulevard built in East Berlin after WWII, soon to become a central locus of the popular uprising of 17 June 1953. Although director Kurt Maetzig depicts Cold War Berlin with dramatic verve, the film illustrates the tightening grip of Stalinism on East German cultural production at this time.
Frauenschicksale:
Berlin, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for happiness and a good man in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny. Released at the peak of East German cultural and political dogmatism, the film was heavily critiqued, especially by female party leaders who objected that its portrayal of the four women did not represent the qualities that characterized women in the new society. Now considered as a richly contradictory work, Destinies of Women represents an encore production by the Dudow/Eisler/Brecht creative team that also made Kuhle Wampe in 1932.
German with English subtitles
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