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SummaryFour short films are combined to form a contemporary document from 1945 to the end of the 60s:
"The Two Sons"
Towards the end of the war, a farmer's wife from Mark Brandenburg has strange dreams in which a Soviet prisoner of war takes on her son's face. When her son suddenly appears, she prevents a crime he had planned for the Soviet prisoner, ties him up and hands him over to the captivity of the advancing Red Army so that he can survive the war.
"The Duel"
The communist Bötcher, the representative for the implementation of the school reform, comes to a preparatory course for future students and meets a professor of the old school who fears a decline of culture in view of the workers' and peasants' power. He refutes the professor and gives the student Helwig, a worker, self-confidence.
"Ordinary people."
Adele and Hannes, who both work in construction, spend their honeymoon in Hannes hometown Kossin. For them it will be a time of rest and above all of remembering the past years: everyday episodes that show their love for work, their commitment, their arguments and the joy of success.
"The computer says no."
Sascha, an expert from Moscow, and Dieter, an expert from Berlin, together find ways and means to deliver an amplifier required by Radio Havana in the shortest possible time, although the computer calculations showed that it could not be done.
(Source: The Second Life of the Film City Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946-1992)
Shotlist
Tags
Decade1960
Production Year1969
Release date15 Jan 1970
Genre
Country of Production
ActorsSigurd Schulz, Jessy Rameik, Helga Göring, Peter Dommisch, Manfred Karge, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Felicitas Ritsch, Otto Mellies, Alfred Müller, Heidemarie Wenzel, Leon Niemczyk, Helga Göring, Günter Junghans, Carlo Schmidt, Ekkehard Schall, Heinz Behrens, Wolfgang Kieling
Personalities
DirectorKurt Maetzig, Rainer Simon, Joachim Kunert, Helmut Nitzschke
